Can Anyone Recall A Case Where Very Poorly Authored Software Was Bought Or Sold ?

There must be a case when a person obeying the Peter Principle was occupying a key position where they were able to evade any attempt to monitor what they were doing. A key position, by its very nature, allows wide autonomy. “There are not enough quality inspectors in the universe to ensure good quality work if the person supposed to be producing the good quality work does not want to, or does not know how to”.
Flight software would provide a spectacular example.

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Is There Software That Will Let Me See The Constellations In X Years Time?

Is there any astronomy software (preferably free) that will let me see the sky as it will be in 5000 AD, 99999AD, etc?
Or – save me some time here – will precession not have that much of an effect? Basically I just want to see how the constellations will alter.

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Is It Really Impossible To Recover Data From Hard Disks When They Are Erased With Software Like “killdisk”?

Is it really impossible to recover data from an hard disk formatted with the software “Killdisk”?
They claim there’s no chance to recover data in any way after the hard disk is “destroyed” with their software. Is this completely true?
If i wanted to erase very sensitive data (credit card details ans so on) from my hard disk because i need to sell it on ebay, how can i be completely sure?
This kind of software “Killdisk” is enough to destroy data without chance of recovery?
Do any of you know which is the better between “Killdisk” and
“Darik’s Boot and Nuke”?
thanks!

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Xp Recovery Problem?

i have a friends computer im trying to fix. its got a registry corruption in windows. when i boot it will go to the xp startup screen, then it stops and i get this error:
“Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate”
when i put my copy of xp home in it, i press R to go recovery console, then it says it doesnt see a drive. that makes no sense.
i havent ruled out a hard drive problem. but the guy doesnt want to lose his data. i cant run recovery to repair windows. any ideas?

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Windows Failed To Start Due To Hardware Or Software Change ?

this is what happened ? When my pc got stuck i restarted it then befor this message apears a blue screen comes in a flash in sec dnt know what is is then the black screen comes windows failed to start due to hardware or software change.. Then it give me 2 options start windows recovery or windows normaly i tried that i even tired in safe mode nothing worked the same screen apears plz some 1 help me fix it as soon as possible thanx…my laptop is an aces aspire with windows vista

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