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Mahalo Daily

andybell — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:53:49 +0000

Lets face it after re-vamping my blog I’ve not really had anything to say. Thats not to say I’ve not been doing things, just that I’ve not wanted to talk about them. My last few posts have just been video links, so in keeping with the trend decided I’d post one more.

You know…

andybell — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:49:30 +0000

…your a geek when.

Woz

andybell — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:31:00 +0000

If your are at all interested in Apple Computers then why not check out this huge interview with Steve Wozniak.

Fatty

andybell — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:27:40 +0000

With all the obsession to be thin, we forget about the people left behind. Not everyone can be thin, not everyone wants to be thin. We need to appreciate things of all shapes and sizes.

Just because I was bored

andy — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:48:43 +0000

Just because I was bored here is a link to a very pointless website, you should join in the phenomenon.

Join the debate

andy — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:21:07 +0000

Is Vista a piece of cack? Have your say here.

iPhone: The Musical

andy — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:24:20 +0000

Thanks to TUAW for this little gem. It is true to say that I would like an iPhone, although I doubt I could bring myself to actually buy one since I use my current phone so infrequently. But never say never.

An Apple a day!

andy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:53:08 +0000

The World Wide Developers Conference is currently taking place, this is always an exciting time and results of lots of nice announcements. The most interesting so far is the release of Safari for Windows. Enjoy.

STOP! Hammer Time!

andy — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:20:08 +0000

This has got to be the greatest FireFox addon ever. True, it will soon get on your nerves, but for a short time its quite amusing.

Paranoia

andy — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:12:30 +0000

So a few months ago I bought 50 blank DVD-R’s, they seemed to work OK, burning without error and as far as I was aware producing a perfect copy every time. So having ran out of disks I bought a further 200 of these disks so that I can do some serious backing up over the festive period. An unforeseen problem has occurred. Even though they write OK, when I come to read them they keep having errors on them. After trying different CD burning software software, simulating before burning and verifying the data after its been written I was still having problems.

The final option was to try a firmware upgrade, it turns out that I was still using firmware version A301 rather than then newest version A306, support for the RITEK disks I’m using was added in version A302. The upgrade does allow me to write at 8x speed rather than the previous 4x speed, although the actual final disk is yet to be produced so I’m yet to discover if my problem is solved or if I need to look for a new home for the remaining 190 disks.

My major worry now is for the data quality on my previous 50 disks, have I deleted data from my PC to free up disk space thinking its securely backed up when in fact its actually just stored on a load of old coasters, I guess only time will tell.