Bartman's Blob

Additional stuff. As some of you might know, the HP Compaq NC4010 laptop does not come with a built in CD/DVD drive. The one I was using also did not have the CD/DVD drive connected and I was too lazy to connect one to the laptop. Eager to try out the CF-IDE adapter after inserting it into the laptop, I insert a bootable USB flash media and booted the laptop up to win98 DOS. Next, I ran FDISK and partitioned the CF card, rebooted the laptop and formatted the CF card with DOS as a bootable disk. I then took out the USB flash media and tried to boot the laptop solely using the CF card. The laptop after booted pass the BIOS screen, cleared the screen and got stuck with a blinking cursor on the top left hand corner. Nothing happened after that. I thought it could not boot. So, I plug my bootable USB back into the laptop and booted it up from there. I ran FDISK again, but this time I found that the CF(disk 2 in FDISK) could not be made an “Active” drive because “disk 1”(the USB flash me...

The availability of these CF-IDE adapter has allow us to easily use solid state memory to replace the typical hard disk in a PC or laptop. We are doing this in order to reduce power consumption on laptop, reduce heat generated as compare with a typical hard disk and not to mention the decrease in noise and weight. In terms of performance when compared with a typical hard disk, the CF card will be in a disadvantage position unless a high speed CF card is used. Storage size of a CF card is also much lower in comparison. Price wise, CF-IDE solution is the lowest when compare against the closest solution of a SSD(Soild State Drive). In this article, we will look at how we can use a CF to IDE adapter to replace a typical hard disk, but the main focus here will be on a laptop. Here is a list of what we will be using. 1- CF to IDE adapter(44pin-IDE) 2- Kingston x133 8Gb CF card. 3- A laptop that can boot from USB drive (not really important). 4- XP OS CD and laptop drivers. 5- Screw d...

After using a few other file synchronization tools out there, i finally found one that does a good job at what i wanted it to do - which is to simply mirror & sync Source A to Destination B. Some of the ones that i've encountered in the past are either resource hungry, suffers from some kind of sync accuracy issue or just plain slow when dealing with huge number of files. Due to these problems i decided to stop using them and switch to the old fashion way of doing it - delete destination->copy Source->paste into destination. This method although time consuming is the best way to avoid missing out a file. Luckily, i managed to come across FreeFileSync. After trying it out, i found that it does the job well and it is better then the rest of the others that i have used in the past. I have used Microsoft Sync Toy and it is not as good. If you regularly need to backup your files to another destination, you can use this program to help you out. Btw, it does not support FTP(2009...