On Tuesday, I was heading out to Manhattan, New York from Ridgewood, New Jersey. Armed with an iPad with Apple Maps, I became the navigator. I was putting a lot of faith in Apple Maps to tell me where to go. It’s all good.
A Day in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Just a day in a life of mine somewhere in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Taken on Monday January 28, 2013.
Something Small
I believe they are Iron Powder Toroids. The diameter is at 0.050 inch (1.27 mm) and the height is at 0.025 inch (0.635 mm). The Iron Powder Toroids are placed on top of a Retina iPad screen.
Meatloaf T. Cat In Memoriam
Sad news, Meatloaf T. Cat passed away late Monday morning January 21, 2013.
Meatloaf had help us raising and fostering stray kittens we’ve rescued for the past 10 years. We will continue to do so in memory of him.
Meatloaf was one the subjects of our photography work and pictures of him almost made it to National Geographic Magazine.
Meatloaf was a great cat, more than a pet. We all are sad to see him gone. We know that his spirit will carry on as we continue our efforts in rescuing animals, especially kittens.
The bent pins
A few days a go my colleague and I were working on a computer which was having some odd problems. During the trouble shooting, I noticed something with the CPU socket.
At a glance, there’s nothing wrong with the CPU socket, but upon a much closer inspection you can see where the problem is.
Two pins were bent out of shape. It might be causing the computer to randomly crash.
SpinRite: Division Overflow Error!
This is one error that I’ve seen before in the past, but really rare with SpinRite. One computer at the office was having performance issue. How could a computer with Intel Core i7 be slower than one with Intel Pentium 4, which is the oldest computer in the office. After ruling out malware infestation, I suspected that the hard drive was the source of the problem. I then boot SpinRite on this computer to check the condition of the hard drive. Shortly after running Level 2 (emergency data recovery), SpinRite halted and displayed an error message.
Division Overflow Error!
A critical error occured at: B04E from which SpinRite CANNOT recover. The system has been halted!
I’ve just sent the screenshot to GRC support.
It would be a lot easier for me to get a new hard drive and install a fresh operating system than waiting to get this hard drive repaired.
MacBook Pro and SanDisk Extreme SSD 480 GB
I’ve been getting a lot of request lately to install Solid State Disk (SSD) on laptops, especially MacBook Pro. One of my current favorite model is SanDisk Extreme SSD. This particular MacBook Pro is now armed with SanDisk Extreme SSD 480 GB. I also installed 8 GB of RAM.
Short of installing fresh Operating System per owner’s request, I use Carbon Copy Cloner. The only problem is that it took 8 hours to clone 400 GB of data through FireWire 800.
