Hello.

If you're at work or in college (as I am) you may have lost a USB key at some stage. Or have you?

The windows registry is like an oven that never gets washed, unless you use a registry cleaner of course. I never saw any reason to tamper with it. It aint broke. My registry contains a unique serial ID of my USB key from when I last used it with my computer. All USB devices have this. Just run a search for usbstor and you'll eventually hit paydirt under currentcontrolset001, devices.

My own USB k… Continue

Now that I'm having RAID errors again, a lot of strange stuff is happening with my PC. Many of you might suggest this is just the halloween ghosties getting busy, but when half your start menu lights up and says prgrams you've used before haven't been touched yet, you know it's time to back up and RMA some faulty parts.

Midterms are coming up fast, so I haven't really got the time to do the right thing just yet. With very few options to work with, I'm having to consider ways of getting my image… Continue

Windows XP tells me it's having a problem with my 2TB hard drive. I have since managed to make a backup (lucky me) of the essential files. Backing up everything is slightly impractical. I decided to make a 2TB array to last me for the next 5-10 years.

Now the way I see it, I can mark as ignore, image the faulty drive, or image the whole array. The drive is indeed making the click of death and has been online up and running for about 10 months. Still in warranty, and going for about €40 these da… Continue

I'm surely not alone when I find myself clicking a link only to be told 'computer says no'. If the number of errors you encounter per hour were measured and recorded, I think we'd be in for a surprise. How often do you click something and get something back that wasn't quite what you were after? How often do you unconciously use habitually learned workarounds? It's all very well to say 'google it' but if you're ho… Continue

I dreamt I was playing a game there, something a bit like Warcraft, not sure which one, but the important thing was that it didn't suck! Does anyone have any nifty tricks for remember dreams? Man, I'd love to know what game that was. It had the lore of Warcraft, the depth of Eve, the social atmosphere or Pirates of the Burning Sea, the creative freedom of City of Heroes and the adventuring sensibilites of Dreamfall. Somebody needs to make that game.

I suppose it'd be useful of me to say… Continue