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November 07, 2005
Frustrations and a product review.
For the last week or so, the screen on my Mac laptop (yes, I have one and I like it), has been misbehaving in such a way as to eliminate the display on the bottom third. Over the weekend, I took the thing apart (not an easy task as Apple thinks both that form is more important that ease of service and that you shouldn't be poking about inside anyway). It appears a contact behind the LCD panel had worked its way loose, and after fixing that, it all seems much better.
Restarting the work desktop this morning offered me another surprise.
Boot... Bluescreen... Automatic reboot. Of course, the blue screen is displayed for less than a second, making it incredibly difficult to see whats in the error readout. I'm currently in the fourth hour of trying to resurrect it, into the umpteenth chkdsk /r. If you're wondering where I am, I can surf the net, but nothing else is working (telnet, IM). Fingers crossed that I'll have it working shortly.
On to the product review. One of the purchases I made after a home HDD failure was Norton Ghost 10. One of the things that I was issued at work recently was Norton Ghost 9.
The diffeerence is far larger than one version number. 10 is easy, painless and simply works (and works well). 9 just doesn't work. The irony is that with 10, I would have been able to back up and restore my PC without much fuss. However, 9 didn't work out of the box and todays project was meant to be to get that working.
Ghost 10: Truly excellent software.
Ghost 9: Should be burned at the stake.
It looks like a HDD replacement and a reinstall. Some days, you just can't win.
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at November 7, 2005 01:49 PM
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