I looked through the window to see what’s up with so many sirens. And indeed something is up. The smoke was black and there was lots of it. I am not sure where exactly it was, looks like Kingsway and Rupert, somewhere behind the hotel. UPDATE: apparently this was a two-alarm fire (really?! but look [...]
Entries from December 2009
A Major Fire in the Neighbourhood
December 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Vancouver
USB External Drive Freezing and Stuttering on AMD 785G in Windows 7
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Hardware & Software
The other big problem I was having with my new PC is actually much worse than the first one (eSATA hotplug issue). Unlike that one, here I have no idea what was causing the problem. Basically, every time you plug in an external USB drive, no matter which one, the results are unpredictable. It may [...]
Tags: external drive·file copy·freeze·usb
Unresponsive SATA Hot Plugin with Windows 7 on AMD 785G PC
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Hardware & Software
I have had serious issues with hard drives on my main PC for months now. First was the issue when using hard drive dock. The way it worked on my old PC was like this: with the dock turned off and eSATA cable plugged into it and the PC, you plug the hard drive into [...]
Tags: amd·hotplug·sata·windows
How to Access Windows 7 Shares From Network
December 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Hardware & Software
There are many articles on how to get non-Windows machines to access Windows 7 shared files but I found it the hard way that there’s always something amiss. So here’s my take on it. First, if you have the ability to use Homegroups – then use them. While right now this is limited to networking [...]
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