Strangely Perfect

What is the Best Backup for Windows in a Small Home or Office? Which Windows Backup?  A History. Over the years I’ve tried many systems for backing up crucial Windows data.  Currently for small-scale backups I use the ubiquitous and almost bullet-proof flash drives, my current one tipping the scales at 8Gb.  But for major [...]

How to Convert a Windows 7 Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk When  Microsoft says It’s Irreversible! Firstly, Do Not Dance with the Devil! I made the mistake (again!) of trying dynamic disks with my new Windows 7 installation.  I must have been asleep – the use of this system is seriously frowned upon for most [...]

I remember an old  Tommy Cooper gag that went something like this; I went to the doctor and said,  “Doctor, doctor.  It hurts when I do this”  (Cooper raises his knee upwards to demonstrate) The doctor said, “Well don’t do it, then“ The point is that it’s exactly like our prolific consumption of carbon-based fuels, [...]

Introduction & History Recently, Microsoft has reworked it’s search engine (MSN Live Search) and renamed it Bing.  This was followed even more recently, with a joint venture between itself and former search king Yahoo! into a hazily explained search and advertising combination. Microsoft is well known for wheeling out the lawyers as backup to it’s [...]

In a follow up to my earlier post about the current rampant piece of malware, Computer Piracy on the High Seas,  I’ve found that the malware, variously called Downadup, Conficker, and Kido scans an in-built list of well-used passwords. So if your password is on this list, change it now! :-)   Ha Ha. 123 1234 [...]

Not only have I had a bit of trouble moving to a new IP address – but this post is being done, missing the Visual part of the WordPress new post editor. That’ll be another post after I get that fixed I suppose…. Here’s what happened: I spotted some extra functionality on my domain host [...]

More on the Julius Baer (un)Trust(worthy) goings on with WikiLeaks. I’ve uploaded the documents as a public service. If everyone does this then they can’t close everyone!

After a few prods from the universe that the electricity system is man-made and thus prone to failure :), I’ve taken the steps to buy and install a backup supply and surge limiter thingy from http://www.EBuyer.com It’s called an “APC Back-UPS RS 800VA USB/SER 6 Outlets With AVR & Surge Protection” and seems to work [...]

I’ve got a few tunes from Waqqaz streamed today since Mr Compy is up and running. .. I’ve done: Bosumptwi Comrade Dolhpin, the reprise version Curling Sandwiches So in a way these are all reprises. It’s some time since these were done and it’s nice to twiddle the sound(s). Why? – because I can! The [...]

Spent most of the last few days mucking around with new hosting setup. The host is okay, I’ve just had a lot of trouble getting slightly more complex things done with the blogs (three going now) due to my lack of knowledge on Unix file systems, permissions etc and not having an easy way to [...]