I installed a 2.5-inch SATA hard drive with Windows 8 Developer Preview on a MacBook. It boots up just fine with the exception with the MacBook trackpad driver. Gotta give Microsoft credit for making Windows 8 compatible with older hardwares such as this MacBook.
Putting a lot of faith in Apple Maps
A Day in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Something Small
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.








