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martydoesmagic Inner circle Essex, UK 1665 Posts |
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By the way I lost ~ 25 years of searches, notes, etc. Excuse me for not being happy or appreciate guys bringing my own life into this place. Arnold, I work in a large IT department and I can ask the data specialists for their advice on this matter if it would be helpful to you? However, I'm guessing you may have already explored most of the options available already. Marty |
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JasonEngland V.I.P. Las Vegas, NV 1728 Posts |
Arnold,
I didn't mean to rub salt in any wounds. I only brought it up because you've made several posts about the loss on Facebook and had clearly shown a sense of humor about the whole affair (remember your post about the first file you recovered?). I really am sorry you lost all this information and I really do wish you the best on your recovery. All of that was serious. And yes, I'm "really" here to help you if there's something I have that you need replaced. I can't imagine what that would be, but if I have it I'll try and get you a copy. Jason
Eternal damnation awaits anyone who questions God's unconditional love. --Bill Hicks
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Elwood P. Dowd New user 27 Posts |
Jason - For the stuff that is available in more than one place, what is the best place to buy your material so that you profit the most?
BTW, I bought your Penguin lecture, and I think my favorite part was "I think the moratorium on not talking about the Karate Kid has passed." Although you'll be hearing from my attorney, since I snorted soda all over my computer. There should have been a disclaimer - "WARNING: Unexpected funny comment approaching." So I guess I'll sue Penguin too. And Splice, for mentioning the lecture in the first place and making me go look for it (I'm new to the magic world, and only knew your name because of here and I think you are in the Steve Forte DVD extras, but your lecture is very entertaining so far). |
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Kimura Special user 519 Posts |
Man, it feels like such a long time since I checked this place out. Glad to see the same old faces are here.
That might be the first effective piracy-prevention tactic I've seen, Jason. Arnold, how did you lose your stuff? Is it beyond forensic repair? I'm assuming this is data on a hard drive... data recovery can be pricy but maybe I can get mates rates from the guys I study with, let me know. |
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AMcD Inner circle stacking for food! 3078 Posts |
Hey Gareth!
Well, as you are the 25th to ask... What happened is this. I had a tremendous mess on my hard drives. Really. Like 10-12,000 PDFs, EPUBs, DOCs, etc., unsorted, incorrectly named, bad date, dispatched in hundred of directories, etc. An unbelievable mess. A few months ago I said "enough is enough" and I gathered everything in one place, on the desktop of my computer. After approximately 2 months of hard and painful work, I had perfectly sorted, named, archived around 3,500 PDFs. The most important thing for me, because it was the Gambling stuff. Now, read this! The day I decided to backup all this on a backup hard drive, my GF (who is sharing the same computer) did a huge file transfer (like 10 thousands big files) on the desktop. What are the odds that it failed? Don't know, I never faced it before. But the operation failed. And trust me, a big failure! Computer crashed, "black screen" (in 2014???), took like 20' for the laptop to reboot. And when it started again, a dozen of system operations was engaged, like recreating the page file (which is always a very bad thing when it happens...). Plus thousands of files on the desktop. And my folder gone!!! What happened exactly? Not sure. I did like one week of investigation. Hard drives are perfectly clean, no bad sectors, no problem of any kind with clusters, etc. I used crazy software, analyzing hard drives surface, etc. Nothing. Hard drives are perfect. It's not a hard drive problem. Operating system? I check all that could be checked, nothing. Nothing has been registered in any journal. My take (and other guys think about the same) is that the memory has been overloaded, the pagefile.sys too and then the system messed up and started to copy file on the desktop, overwriting my folder (remember the thousands files copied to the desktop). I checked the NTFS structure, and some problems appeared... It's crazy, never seen that in my life before, and I set up computers for 30 years now. I saved all the hard drive sectors before starting any investigation and after all that checking, I tried to retrieve what could be retrieved! Not much. As said above, many files have been overwritten, you just can't get back to something which has been overwritten! I used very good software for that, I tried on the hard drives where I had the files before, but after a few months of usage you understand that not much could be retrieved there either. So it's a long path ahead of me. I collect stuff from online libraries since 1995 or so. Many have disappeared, many are now not giving anything for free (which is crazy. In Europe we pay taxes for building unis for instance, and now we must pay for a ### PDF made with our money???). I can't remember where I grabbed all I had, who could? I had PDFs made by me, of books I bought and the sold. I had stuff that just a few people on earth are aware of (do you know many guys collecting 16th century pamphlets because there are 5 words mentioning shiners)? Of course, I had also "other" PDFs...Anyway, I lost a lot (for instance, drafts of next Arcanums!). But that's life, I should have been more cautious. A few guys are helping though, and I can't say how much I owe to them. My GF is still alive . |
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Kimura Special user 519 Posts |
That is an incredibly bad beat. I've done forensics for a little while but switched over to security, your situation sounds like a total nightmare. Hopefully over time you'll be able to get some of that stuff back.
(I'd have killed my gf) |
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Pixelated Veteran user 331 Posts |
On the subject of making a file traceable back to the recipient, you could vary the length of a particular scene (or shot) in small intervals. If one is uploaded, then the length of the scene /shot would be cross referenced and the uploader identified. As they wouldnt even know which scene/shot was chosen, I don't see how anyone could get around this.
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Kimura Special user 519 Posts |
Whatever your method, don't tell anyone what it is
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NFS Regular user 186 Posts |
High frequency audio watermarking (outside the audible spectrum of the human ear) seems to be the latest thing. Detectable only through software and is retained even when the audio is downsampled.
"A gambler without a system is as a ship without a compass."
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Bobbycash Special user Australia 694 Posts |
Just to bump this up, Jason has done another lecture with the Murphy's Magic 'at the table' series. For anyone interested they can grab it from a variety of dealers (penguin, vanishing inc etc).
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Maddened Loyal user 222 Posts |
Foundations 3 is also out. https://store.theory11.com/products/foundations-3
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JFX Regular user 146 Posts |
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Just to bump this up, Jason has done another lecture with the Murphy's Magic 'at the table' series. For anyone interested they can grab it from a variety of dealers (penguin, vanishing inc etc). Thanks for the reminder. Great lecture, I enjoyed every second of it. Loved the idea behind the first gambling routine. Had a smile on my face through the entire performance. |
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Bobbycash Special user Australia 694 Posts |
Haha though my favourite but was the info on Steve's material
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swayne100 Veteran user 389 Posts |
Can anyone give a review of the lecture? I'm curious how it compared to his Penguin Lecture as far as content?
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Bobbycash Special user Australia 694 Posts |
Content was quite different, the only real cross over was second and zarrow work. The first half is comprised of classical card magic, with the second half being composed on gambling effects which I haven't seen Jason teach before. Fantastic stuff.
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NFS Regular user 186 Posts |
Looks like Jason is also working on http://www.gaffedgambling.com/
"A gambler without a system is as a ship without a compass."
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Jerry Inner circle Some where in Florida 1402 Posts |
Jason, any update on this topic?
Ace routine still being considered? I would like to get "Multiple Shift" or will it be on Foundations 4? |
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jtrujillo707 New user 3 Posts |
I too am wondering about the limited aces run?
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