I plugged in my old IDE hard drives from my old machine and wanted to copy all the data across to my 2TB drive. Dragging and dropping left me with errors of corrupt files and so my command line trick is to use XCOPY. So you would normally navigate into […]
Tech Talk
Dell D531 and another model – screen wont wake from sleep
I’ve had this issue since last week, but I havn’t had much time to have a look into it, but basically, when the lid closes, the laptop will go to sleep. Once the lid is opened again, normally, the laptop would wake up, but it seems as though the laptop […]
The new Beast
As I explained in the backlog, I did get myself a new computer on a budget. So the whole system cost about $1000. The reasons for most of the parts would be price. I didn’t want to spend too much, but a machine that would run quite well and quiet. […]
Long Catch-up
OK… SO.. a whole month as gone by… without a single word from me. As lame as this excuse might be, I just haven’t had to time, and I have been trying to find the time. So the last time I blogged, was before Nick’s 21st dinner with the family. […]
Bit of a catch up
So, I have been way too busy with work. Started off with my 10 day project. Was able to get it done after 6, and 4 days of testing. There was just too much testing. I was able to get it done, and was quite impressed with the speed at […]