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Up and Running

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

A few weeks back, my computers power supply decided it had had enough of doing its job, and quit. In a loud and smokey fashion no less.

For some reason I am unable to fathom, my motherboard, 2 hard drives, 1 out of 4 PCI cards, all RAM sticks, and the floppy drive all died. How can only 1 of 4 PCI cards die? anmd more importantly, how can 2 of 6 hard drives fail and the others are untouched?

It was time to order new parts. So, my boss in his infinate kindness, orders me the parts I need to get me back up and running.

After a couple of weeks of screwed up deliveries and missing items on the order, I finally got the parts and set about putting them together.

After switching back on and repairing windows (which took some hours to do) I figured out which hard drives I had lost. My design drive, and my personal drive. Stupidly, I backed up neither of them.

Now I have the task of trying to ressurect these drives. I have a few options. I could take them to a data retrieval company, but I refuse to pay those prices. So I am left with the DIY options.

  • Put the drive head into another (working) hard drive
  • Buy the EXACT same model drive and swap the logic board over, incase the circuit board is damaged

I will post the results here later next week when I should have hoefully retrieved my data from these drives.

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Stolen Sidekick II

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

This is the story of one mans moral struggle to retrieve stolen property. His friend left her T-Mobile Sidekick II in a taxi, and fearing she had lost the phone and all of its data she offered a handsome reward via text message for the phones safe return. The text message was periodically sent to the phone in the hope that the thieves would decide to return it.

So far they have refused all attempts to recover the phone.

The people who found the phone have come up with a few different stories as to how they got the phone and have refused to return the phone, even when the authour of the website offered to buy it from them.

This is a perfect example of the immoral world we live in. I do hope that these people get what they deserve, and the military guy in this little scenario should be court marshelled and dismissed immediately.

I wont go into any more detail as I really recommend that you read the whole story.

My full support goes out to the authour of this website, Evan, and I wish him all the best in getting this resolved. Good Luck to you.

How NOT to steal a SideKick II

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Benny Benassi – Who’s Your Daddy

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

You just have to love Benny Benassi. His music and especially his videos rock.

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