Semi-literate
Birthday’s are neat. While I’m not much of a consumer – at all – birthday’s do allow one to indulge slightly and make living just a little more pleasant. In the case of this birthday, I’m now a proud owner of a few more Stargate seasons, a new Maxtor Onetouch Mini 4 external hard disk for backups and a new Logitech VX Revolution wireless mouse.
Paying a little more gives a lot more benefit, I’ve come to learn. Cheap is cheap, in both quality and service. Now I’ve got a good quality Toshiba notebook and Logitech headphones and mouse, I’ve realized just how much nicer the spit-and-polish is on the name-brand products. No more Chinese cheapies for me!
One gripe so far; the Maxtor Onetouch backup software doesn’t work for me. The software detects the presence of my drive fine, but is hell-bent on indicating it as drive C:\ instead of its real drive letter allocation. Not a huge problem if I could manually set it, but as it is I can currently only backup C:\ to itself. Not a very useful proposition but one I hope to rectify with technical support.
As for the bootloader, I can now read back data correctly. Writing is still an issue which I have to tackle, but at least it’s the only remaining issue. I got back to University for year 2 in a week and a half, so I hope to have it finished completely well before then.
