Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
No. of Recommendations: 15
No. of Recommendations: 4
Wonderful news!
Here's hoping it regains the use of Yahoo ticker symbols.
A fabulous tool regardless.
Baltassar
No. of Recommendations: 0
The "public" version of GTR1 has not been reliable for a long time. I have been told there is a group, kind of an inner sanctum, that has had full use of GTR1 with only a short interruption. It always seemed odd to me that someone who is so generous with their work and knows many outside the sanctum depend on it would give no explanation or updates on the website.
No. of Recommendations: 0
My computer died taking hashtag display of downloads in "Properties" with it and the new computer I have in Spain doesn't display them.
Can someone remind me of what hashtag display app they use? Google is failing me.
No. of Recommendations: 10
seemed odd to me that someone who is so generous with their work and knows many outside the sanctum depend on it would give no explanation or updates on the website
We get what we pay for. He has no obligation to any of us free riders.
Eric Hines
No. of Recommendations: 6
We get what we pay for. He has no obligation to any of us free riders.
True, although the genesis of GTR1 was here on the MI board and you'd think that the "sanctum" would have long time posters and GTR1 users from here.
Is there a large GTR1 user base from somewhere else? WER group, AFAIK was/is a small group too.
Anyway it is nice to see it back, hope it stays back and that if Robbie needs anything he reaches out.
Mark
No. of Recommendations: 1
My computer died taking hashtag display of downloads in "Properties" with it and the new computer I have in Spain doesn't display them.
Can someone remind me of what hashtag display app they use? Google is failing me.HashTab is the one I use, OpenHashTab's github link is:
https://github.com/namazso/OpenHashTab
No. of Recommendations: 8
With all due respect, I do not think Robbie owes anyone an explanation. This was a Robbie creation that took a lot of time to complete, mostly on his own. Some of us helped furnish info and maybe a couple of bucks. He continued to monitor and update it. No one had to pay or contribute in any way to use this valuable resource. Perhaps we should have been more proactive in asking if he needed help to bring it back.
No. of Recommendations: 2
"We get what we pay for. He has no obligation to any of us free riders."
Totally agree. I would have have gladly paid for it in the past though. No use for it now. He was condescending about the technical ability of others and then didn't take the simplest 101 steps to protect his data.
No. of Recommendations: 13
He was condescending about the technical ability of others and then didn't take the simplest 101 steps to protect his data.
I never had the impression he was condescending toward others. He always appreciated--out loud--folks identifying bugs or asking "how to" or just "how does this work" questions.
Regarding those 101 steps, stuff happens even to the most experienced. I had a highly experienced programmer working for me at a small defense contractor company. She lost two days worth of work when a computer glitch in our computer center happened. She was reminded of the utility of frequent backups, just as we all need reminders of things we take for granted, yet should not.
It'd be good to get him back on these boards.
Eric Hines
No. of Recommendations: 19
and then didn't take the simplest 101 steps to protect his data.
That is Not. Accurate.
The databases are likely too large for cloud backup. He had on premise dual drive backup. Without knowing exactly what happened, apparently both the "donor drive" and the "patient" drive failed. From the thread:
It's rather embarrassing to even be in the position of needing to recover a hard drive. Ultimately, it can be partly blamed on Windows Update. A couple months ago, Windows Update forced me to accept an update with too many bugs in Excel and Access, so I had to restore an operating system image with an older version of Windows. I totally forgot that restoring the Windows image causes all kinds of problems with Backblaze that need to be resolved after the restoration, so nothing was backed up since then.
Since I started using Backblaze, I've only been doing physical drive closing every several months, so my last full drive clone is older than the data on Backblaze.
"It's probably worth ordering more than one donor drive. I suspect that the data recovery technicians accidentally broke the donor drive that I provided them with during the first head replacement attempt, so if it happened once, it can happen again.
It was necessary to hunt for hard drives with exact specifications for drive matching, including being manufactured within 3 days of the original failed drive.
Zeelotes' small band collaborated to crawl the web to find hard drives, data recovery companies, ship them to Australia, and more than reimburse him financially for his expenses.
.... "Well, it turns out that Recovery Squad damaged the platters of my drive beyond any possibility of repair and were probably lying to me every step of the way.
It will be a long (probably multi-month) programming project to get the GTR1 database updating again." ...
didn't lose anything that is absolutely irreplacable. It's just that programming isn't the way I wanted to spend all my days off work for the next few months. (I also didn't really lose any code. The programming I have to do is special-purpose for extracting data from the binary format of the GTR1 backtester files, which I've never needed to do before, and adapting code that will no longer work with certain raw data files gone.)
So, please - stop.
FC
No. of Recommendations: 0
The databases are likely too large for cloud backup. He had on premise dual drive backup. Without knowing exactly what happened, apparently both the "donor drive" and the "patient" drive failed. From the thread:
FC where is this thread that you are getting this from?
