Posting from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport 25 June 2006, 09:34
Posted by Orhan in : Travel , add a commentI missed my flight to Istanbul, had an extra 2 hours so I purchased wifi access from Orange (needed to make a few Skype calls.) Seems to work fine..
Will be posting here as much as I can during the next two weeks while touring Turkiye.
Have you seen a busy intersection? 23 June 2006, 10:17
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My hard drive failed - came back in the freezer! 16 June 2006, 11:24
Posted by Orhan in : Geeky Techy Stuff , add a commentI use an old notebook hard drive in an external 2.5″ enclosure to carry my data everywhere. It failed last week, I didn’t mind because I keep regular backups (using xcopy with some parameters.) It turned out that my back up script was not perfect. I thought it was backing up fine but I found out the hard way that it was encountering an error and stopping to copy the files and the error message dissapears so quickly that I did not realize the problem.
Anyway, I had to retrieve the data from my failed hard disk and I do not have $1000 to give to the professionals. I was searching the web for an appropriate software and I came accross this discussion: “Freeze your hard drive to recover data: Myth or Reality?“
I tried the trick, and it worked! I put the hard disk along with the enclosure to the freezer and waited for 10 minutes. I then connected my laptop and downloaded everything off of it. It needed a few unplug-plug cycles but I was able to recover all the data..
Just ordered a skype regular phone adapter kmu-30a by K-mate 14 June 2006, 14:13
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Just ordered a regular phone (rj11) adapter for skype. It also has a gateway function. This will be for the family so that they can call me using the regular house phone.
Found it on eBay.
Will post here the review here when I receive it.
Interesting free software from the author 13 June 2006, 21:52
Posted by Orhan in : General , add a commentI was looking for a simple folder synchronization tool and I came accross this web site. Interesting, check it out:
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