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When was my old seagate drive manufactured

Submitted by alex on Sat, 20/06/2009 - 3:10pm

I recently had my 1TB hard drive (of which was +750GB full) die on me last weekend, after only 12 months of use. I decided to therefore go through all my old hard drives, that I had copied everything from originally, to see what data might have been left on them. I needed to know when I bought them though, and looking at the label on the drives showned something called a 'Date Code' for which there was a 5 digit number?

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Week Review #42

Submitted by alex on Fri, 19/10/2007 - 3:57pm

Notice a pattern ? I think, rather then posting random stuff every now and then, I'm going to try write one post each week, summarising on things I've come across and work I've done. /me wonders how long this will last..

Notice a pattern ? I think, rather then posting random stuff every now and then, I'm going to try write one post each week, summarising on things I've come across and work I've done. /me wonders how long this will last..

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Week in review

Submitted by alex on Fri, 12/10/2007 - 2:18pm

I recently did some Drupal work for a client, which turned out to be a bit of fun. The Google Custom Search service is a service that can be integrated into websites for a branded/focused version of google's efficient, accurate search facility. The Drupal module for this service had only been released for 5.x, so I got to work and backported a version for 4.7.x for a client. Was refreshing to do a bit of open source work - if you want to check it out, see this page: Google_cse: I'd love a release for Drupal 4.7.6.

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Modem Troubles

Submitted by alex on Fri, 14/09/2007 - 10:55am

Last night I went to update the firmware on my ADSL Router, a Billion BiPAC 7402VGO... and it failed! The result was a useless modem and NO INTERNET!

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my second notebook

Submitted by alex on Fri, 29/12/2006 - 5:09pm

personal notes and experiences using my new laptop, this time directly purchased from Dell, instead of via an ebay seller.

personal notes and experiences using my new laptop, this time directly purchased from Dell, instead of via an ebay seller.

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Notebook

Submitted by alex on Thu, 28/12/2006 - 2:40pm

Trials and tribulations with a Dell laptop purchased through Ebay.

Trials and tribulations with a Dell laptop purchased through Ebay.

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Laptop and Ubuntu

Submitted by alex on Tue, 21/11/2006 - 8:18pm

Getting Ubuntu installed onto my new laptop

Getting Ubuntu installed onto my new laptop

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My first laptop

Submitted by alex on Tue, 14/11/2006 - 3:02pm

First laptop purchase, second hand, through EBay.

First laptop purchase, second hand, through EBay.

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