Since my last post on the subject, SpinRite has done about all it can do on this poor excuse for a hard drive. It has managed to salvage an awful lot of what would have otherwise been damaged beyond recovery. There were so many borderline “is it a one or a zero?” sectors I got [...]

My mother just asked me what I wanted for my birthday and as you’ll know from an earlier post, I’m somewhat obsessed with backing up. The one thing missing from my backup strategy is an external RAID-protected hard drive so I said I’d be rather grateful if she could fill this gap. With a sly [...]

I seem to have acquired a reputation at work for being able to work miracles. In the space of 3 days I’ve picked up 2 dead PC’s from 2 different friends. Both are non-booters, and both quite new.
The first one I’ve ‘fixed’ already – by taking the graphics card out and using the onboard VGA [...]

It seems the days when computers came with proper CD’s of full operating systems for use should a hard drive crash or be upgraded, are long behind us. In fact the last time I remember that happening were around about Windows 95. 14 years ago. Shocking.
I’m using Mum’s PC as my primary workspace at the [...]

I don’t own an iphone but I do have an iPod touch, which is basically the iPhone sans camera and phone. I found just now the wordpress app in the AppStore. Free!
So I can now blog away from the PC. Brilliant!

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Have you ever stopped for just a moment and considered how much of your life is stored digitally on your hard drive in that beige box of yours? Go on, take a moment now… Family photos? Holiday videos? Work reports? Personal diary? Digital media (iTunes and the like)?
These are just a few examples of “stuff” [...]

And lo, how dreadfully disappointed was I to find that whilst the handset works fine, the base station and/or its power supply doesn’t even power up.
I’ve sent an email to the supplier, but my hopes of being fully VoIP’ed by the end of the day have been dashed. What a complete waste [...]

I’ve recently jumped on the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) wagon, and what fun it is! My reasons range from the mundane, i.e. did you know your credit score with some companies is higher if you give them a land line number than a mobile?), to exotic: I wanted to be able to have various [...]