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- Sydney
- Temperature: 22°C
- Humidity: 88.4%
- Wind: Calm
- Dew Point: 20°C
- Visibility: 10km
- Clouds: Few Clouds
- Barometer: 1020 hPa
- Sunrise: 6:46 am GMT+10
- Sunset: 5:34 pm GMT+10
- Updated: 5:30 am GMT+10
Mar
30
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I spent most of yesterday afternoon over at a friends place rebuilding 3 machines for him.
First one was a vintage PC he got off of me years ago, a P3 with 256Mb of RAM. I took my ‘kit’ of install and software disks along with me, and after discovering that we were trying to boot [...]
Mar
28
Ok – the 100Gb Hard Drive in my laptop died the other day. Luckily I didnt have anything overly important on it, as it died badly.
I tried running spinrite on it, but even that was having drama, saying it was going to take a number of days to complete.
Because the drive is SATA, the only [...]