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Hard disks never fail, right?

May 20th, 2009 | General | No Comments »
Backups. Something we never remember to do, but always wish we had done when the unthinkable happens. Be it a hard drive gone bad, accidentially deleted file or lost memory stick, data is lost. Not a big deal if you have a copy. If you don’t, well, though luck.

Fortunately, I’ve yet to lose data due to those things just mentioned. It’s bound to happen, though, sooner or later. When considering the many devices I own with hards drives inside them, luck’s been on my side. Nevertheless, my backup record has been less than stellar.

I had the occasional document backed up now and then, but mostly just the really important ones. Finally when Apple released OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and I saw how simple backups were with Time Machine, there was no excuse.

All was well, until I started writing my thesis. Then the data loss paranoia struck. Around then I read about online backup, and decided to give it a try. I was happy with the service I initially tried (still using it, in fact), but noticed there were a number of contenders as well. I’ve since tried to keep up with the scene a bit, and now decided to write a piece about few of the backup services I’ve had experience with.

On the first part of the series, I cover the basics, such as advantages and disadvantages of online backup. On the follow-up articles, I focus more on the backup services themselves.

Note: Just so happens, Spideroak is offering 50% discount for new users, today only. If you’re interested, sign up using my affiliate link and use code ‘recovery’ at checkout. Remember, one day discount only, so it’s deal by May 20th or no deal.

>> Online backup – introduction

You can see it’s improved.

May 20th, 2009 | General | No Comments »
Decided to change the font size on the site from “maybe a little bit too damn small” to slightly bigger. Also changed the font. Now things are a bit easier to read, helps especially in the longer articles.

I still need to fix the CSS-styles. Current style sheet is far from optimal, with overlapping and useless style definitions here and there. Will make it better, someday.

Does Wii know what time it is?

April 15th, 2009 | General | 1 Comment »

A while ago I was looking at my router’s log and noticed a funny thing related to DHCP entries, namely those of Nintendo Wii. Apparently Wii acts a little weird when it comes to DHCP, making constant queries to the server on short intervals.

My Wii has the WiiConnect24 on, so it should make Internet connections regularly, no problem there. There’s just no need to bombard the router with address queries every few minutes. Compared to other devices on my network, Wii sure makes itself heard.

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April Fools

April 1st, 2009 | General | No Comments »

Opera Labs presents: Face Gestures. Forget those silly mouse gestures, now you can browse the internet with your face.

Hilarious announcement at Opera’s site accompanied by a brilliant video demonstrating these. Still, I’d never use another browser again if it only were true…

That Disc Sure Is Dirty

February 15th, 2009 | General | No Comments »

When compared to today’s console games, the 20 year old ones might look like crap, but they have a few aces up their sleeve (such as quality and playability). Still, I’m not here to start rambling about modern games with no soul or challenge. I’m here to ramble on modern games not working, introducing the modern players to such joys as freezing, requiring constant updates and bugs.

Granted, these have been issues PC-gamers – myself included – are used to, hardware incompabilities, crashes, flawed code and such. Consoles used to be carefree – never heard of anyone not completing, like, Super Mario Bros because the game kept exiting to title screen every time you picked up a mushroom. That just didn’t happen on consoles.

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