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Even when on vacation, you find computers everywhere. Someone asked me, “what do I do? when I try to start my computer, I get a boot drive not found”.
Microsoft has a good discussion about what happens if you get Operating System Not Found or Missing operating system. The long and short of it is that [...]

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Well the world is moving on to Blu-ray and I’ll have to get one of these bad boys at some point (and replace my whole television too, the lovely 250kg monster that it is). In the meantime, backing up DVDs and so forth goes on. Here’s the workflow I use. Its a little old these [...]

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rebuilding a PC pretty much all night. A hard drive failing and needed to rebuild it. This takes toooo long! #
Got entourage and hosted exchange working though yahoo! #
@docholladay I know exactly what you mean, really listening is a great skill. And with kids, it is incredibly rewarding! #
@asaunders. At newark boingo let’s iphones on [...]

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Yikes, I’ve never seen this icon before and it sounds like the hard drive died on our trusty Color iPod. How sad!

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iPod iconology or what does this picture on my iPod mean? Sad iPod icon with exclamation point

This also relates to the diagnostic software noted above. The icon means that the disk scan was [...]

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I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be shopping for four terabyte drives just for backups. Amazing how things have changed. Even more amazing is that it is so easy to fill a terabyte server these days with music, videos and home movies. In any case, if you need a backup for these, [...]

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