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Category Archives: Hardware
A blast from the past
I found this cartoon in an old folder from about 25 years ago. It still makes me laugh. I had to re-work it in photoshop and apologise to the creator as I don’t know who it is.
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Top of google – Data recovery done best – Not!
Hard Drive Data Recovery – No Data No fee. 15yrs exp. www.fields-data-recovery.co.uk ISO 9001 Student/Non-Company Discounts. And here’s the link result: Microsoft VBScript runtime error ‘800a0005’ Invalid procedure call or argument: ‘left’ /keyword_capture.asp, line 11
Tech Support – don’t go for the obvious, it might be a waste
The week before last I had a hardware failure following a power outage and it turned out to be a major saga. My TV Digibox had effectively died and I was going to describe the pains I had to go … Continue reading
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Crash ‘n’ burn
In August 2009 as recounted in the podcast One Man and His Desk #6 I had a very nasty experience when using a USB SATA/IDE adapter having removed a drive from my main server for something of a ‘rejig’. The … Continue reading
The Sky (box) might be the limit
So how long does it take to upgrade a satellite receiver/recorder? Well in my case the jury is still out as I am still working on it. Here’s how it is going so far: 1 ) take the drive out … Continue reading
What’s under the one man’s desk then?
KVM1 Windows 2003 server with vmware server running a custom W2K3 server and windows XP Windows 2000 with Flight Sims and related aviation software Dual boot, dual screen Ubuntu 9.04 and Vista Ultimate (with vmware server running Win2K3) WinXP Pro … Continue reading
Amazing Amazon (but no guarantee)
After reading up on Amazon’s S3 super-dooper unlimited storage, where stories of companies saving millions of dollars abound, I was taken by this line in the Wikipedia entry: “S3 comes with no guarantee that customer data will not be lost.”
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Well they did ask!
After a series of online chat and email sessions which failed to solve a problem with my NAS box, I was asked to take the customer satisfaction survey. My favourite question and the first possible answer was this: “You have … Continue reading
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Voodoo Week
The number of things that have gone wrong across a range of machines this week is unbelieveable. To top it all, having had to uninstall, reinstall, download, patch and hack almost every day, I thought I’d seen the end of … Continue reading
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