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Hello TheStarman! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! —EncMstr 15:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Welcome!

Hi,

just noticed your edit to endianness and thought to have a look at your user page. I see that you are a programmer as well, so we might have many common interests. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page, or reply here, if you feel we can work together on some (C++) project or Wikipedia article. Or for whatever reason you might like :-)

Cheers, Gennaro Prota•Talk 09:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Gennaro, I've been unemployed for some years now, so should be looking for a job instead of doing this! I've never been paid as a programmer, so have very little work experience doing that, but still might be able to add something to a project... have worked with TestDisk a great deal. Daniel B. Sedory 09:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Well, yes, I see :-) Good luck with your search, BTW. It's not like we have to start something immediately, anyway. I think it's good to know that we can contact each other, now or in the future :-) Truth is, both Wikipedia and "hobby" programming projects are a lot more interesting than many paid jobs… —Gennaro Prota•Talk 10:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Say Gennaro, do you know how (if possible) one can turn their Wiki login into working for other Wiki LANGUAGE pages, so we don't need many diff. logins?! Daniel B. Sedory 10:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for the late reply: I disconnected before getting your question. I think it is still necessary to login separately to each Wiki. There have been discussions about a unified login mechanism (including Wiktionary and Wikicommons) but AFAIK that hasn't been implemented yet. —Gennaro Prota•Talk 16:48, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fdisk (Unix)

Hey, just wanted to let you know that since you are the only editor of this article, you can request speedy-deletion by following the directions at WP:CSD and adding a {{db-author}} tag to it. FrozenPurpleCube 03:50, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hi,

I am a newer user to wikipedia and was wondering if I could ask for your input on my article Sector slipping. I noticed that you have worked on other computer related articles and thought you may be able to help me.

Thanks! Fanax 21:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Fanax, it seems interesting... though I do wonder: Couldn't (shouldn't?) it be merged into the main article Hard disk drive? Other than that: I would divide the content into at least two (and maybe three) main sections:
1. What happens before a disk is truly low-level formatted. And you should know that until one is, there is no such thing as a 'block' or 'sector' capable of holding data; unless we're discussing something like a floppy disk or a very old HDD which uses CHS logic to physically access its blocks (sectors).
2. What can happen after a disk is truly low-level formatted. Can "sector slipping" still be applied at that time?
3. Possibly what happens if "bad sectors" are encountered after a disk has been PARTITIONED (which is what some people mistakenly call 'low-level' formatting) and then has data added to many sectors on the disk (usually as an OS and user data).
In parts of your article, you seem to be using the word 'sector' too loosely, in that we do not know exactly what you mean. Perhaps you can try to specify if it's a physical area on a hard disk (that might not even be used as a raw block for data after low-level formatting), or if it's a block of user's data that could become corrupted later on. We could, of course, reword things, add reference numbers in the text, etc. etc. Daniel B. Sedory 23:07, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Master Boot Record

The closest thing to an authoritative reference for the lowest usable memory location is probably Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, [1]. Specifically, the file memory.lst gives usages for various memory locations. Location 0x500 is used by the BIOS Print Screen function, so it is not available to the OS. The bytes 0x501-0x5ff look like they might be used by different versions of MS-DOS, so it might be that the lowest usable location for the operating system is 0x501, rather than 0x600, although nearly everyone uses 0x600, which is the address the MBR is normally relocated to.

[edit] 210.18.107.2

Hello, and thank you for the note on my talk page. In the future, if you find someone who is actively vandalizing, you should report them at WP:AIV. This page is regularly monitored by administrators. Thank you for helping fight vandalism on Wikipedia. Regards, Accurizer (talk) 03:01, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for watch over the hexadecimal article

Hello. Thanks a lot to correct vandalism and typos to my contribution to the hexadecimal article (I'm not a native english speaker). I suposse you think that, apart of the typos, my paraghaphs enhanced the article, so I'll feel rewarded if you learnt some things more about the topic. Yours.Ricardo Cancho Niemietz (talk) 13:20, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Ricardo. Gotta go to work now. Daniel B. Sedory (talk) 17:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I agree. It's a mess. Way too complicated. There's a Wiki shortcut for this kind of article, but I can't remember it. It means that dozens (hundreds) have folks have come by and added their bit to it, without regard for the overall flow and structure. I'm working on a cleaned up version now. —EncMstr 07:08, 19 March 2008 (UTC)