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Chris Barton: Disk failure takes family to the brink of disaster and back
To whom it may concern: My daughter is unable to complete her assignment today because, on Saturday night, we suffered a catastrophic disk crash. Unfortunately, Monika has not made a backup of her work. I have taken the comatose disk to the data recovery people, but it doesn't look good ... "
This modern take on "the dog ate my homework" may sound like a creative excuse, but sadly it was true. The NCEA photography assignment wasn't the only loss. Digital photos, music, documents, interviews - vast swathes of our family's digital life was now in suspended animation, caught in a twilight zone somewhere inside a sliver disk platter that steadfastly refused to spin.
October 09, 2008
Tagging concept making its mark
At Alcatel-Lucent's research and testing centre in Antwerp, engineers have converted office space into model apartments to create a more realistic environment for testing the next generation of home technologies.
If the future plays out as these Belgium researchers are planning, a wireless home network will dominate our domestic existence. The mobile phone will act as a kind of uber-remote for this network, controlling and linking together the home's various computing, entertainment and telecommunications systems.
October 09, 2008
Wireless freeloaders and how to deal to them
October 08, 2008
American Airlines to block airbourne porn
October 08, 2008
Judge orders RealNetworks to pull DVD copying software
October 08, 2008
Podcasts used for uni recruitment
October 08, 2008
Future of Mars mission up in the air
October 08, 2008
Cash-chasing YouTube rolls out new sales tricks
October 08, 2008
Mail tool could stop drunken email mistakes
October 08, 2008
Eee PC drives Asustek success
October 08, 2008
Chips are down, so AMD does a fabrication reshuffle
October 08, 2008
One bad connection caused atom smasher shutdown
Related NZHerald links: Big Bang on the backburner as LHC repairs dragKiwis fear the atom-smasher, says surveyBig bung theory - Hadron Collider breaks againWorld to end in August (maybe) +videoGENEVA - A poor soldering job on one of 10,000 connections is the most likely cause of the failure that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher just days after the new collider was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said yesterday.
"It is very probable that there was a connection that wasn't good," said Lyn Evans, project leader of the new Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Nuclear Research Organisation.
October 07, 2008
Way cleared for third mobile player to enter market
Communications Minister David Cunliffe is applauding a Vodafone deal with New Zealand Communications (NZC) that will make it easier for a third mobile phone player to enter the market.
Expectations are that NZC, currently building a network, will bring a cut to mobile charges from Vodafone.
October 07, 2008
Anti-government blogger's battle for freedom
The editor of Malaysia's best-known anti-Government news portal has gone on trial for sedition for allegedly implying the Deputy Prime Minister was involved in the murder of a young Mongolian woman.
Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, who denies the allegation, is already in jail in a separate case under the Internal Security Act, a law that allows indefinite detention without trial.
October 07, 2008
Taped over
October 06, 2008
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