Is there a formula, or some other technique, to convert a HDD sector offset in bytes into a polar coordinate of the form (radius, angle) on the disk physical platter? One problem is that the cylinder-head-sector geometry reported by modern drives has nothing to do with the actual physical geometry […]
Daily Archives: June 18, 2025
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Windows 10 I have Windows Live Mail (and no other. No Outlook) installed on my PC. But when I try a mailto link (test@example.com) windows only gives me the option to open it with any of my internet browsers (which is useless): (its in german but you should still understand). […]
I’m trying to add functionality to a makefile that currently runs under both Windows and Linux. The functionality I want to add is creating the object and bin directories in the directory tree, if they don’t exist, and just continue if they do. With Linux it’s easy. If the directories […]
I’ve been stepping through a slew of photos taken with a Nikon D300, and stored in NEF format. Some of them are duplicated with JPG copies (most likely due to setting JPG+RAW on the camera) and the colour-balance is identical across the two formats. I’ve been trying to batch convert […]