WednesdayMorning

Firstly, i’d just like to say thanks to the guys who’ve posted comments so far. It’s nice to know someones read them haha =D.

Onwards, Upwards and so forth… As anyone knows read any post here i’m a linux user, I use crunchbang linux as my primary operating system on my day to day. I rarely use my lovely desktop PC although I really should however I commute from home to University and like to be able to move on the go. Well recently I’ve been thinking that I should do the big swap and finally get make linux my primary operating system on my desktop too (i’m keeping a windows partition because i want to be able to play games without hassle). I have 2 drives (250GB’s each) and I’m going to have one for linux and one for windows with a 500GB external drive for the two of them, for music etc.

So i bought one from amazon for ~£50 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001EKW0O4) which i thought was a pretty amazing price, I got free super saver delivery and it arrived today, well i got a red slip from Royal Mail for it today.. so i had to go and collect it. I’ve run into my first problem however, what format should I use on it? I’m currently going with FAT32 however im concerned by the 4GB maximum file size, i know that NTFS isn’t all that great on linux so if anyone has any suggestions let me know.

HD Review

I thought I might give “reviewing” it a go, I’m not usually one for saying “this is crap” because I just do my research and buy which ever product is best so i don’t deal with alot of “crap” (i really wish blogs could have a crap alarm like LO). Firstly, it’s very very geared towards windows users however that is just a fact of life. I get a total of 465GB out of the “500″ claimed which agian is fine and totally expected. I really love some of the hardware features, I’m one of those computer geeks who turns his computer off when he goes to bed, i know its extreme (i do take my netbook to bed with me though :s). This drive turns on and off with your computer, it is completely independantly powered, I think thats just a pain useful feature. I’ve had other drives which require you to switch them on and off manually and I’m just too lazy for that. It also has an “power-saving mode” , i’ve not been able to find any material telling me how it saves power exactly but the description says

[quote]Buffalo DriveStation USB 2.0 Hard Disk is a simple solution to back up your important data.
The Power Saving Utility constantly monitors data access to the hard drive and automatically redcues power consumption when the unit is idle.
TurboUSB software increases data transfer speeds via USB.
Secure Lock Ware software encrypts and protects your important personal data from theft and unauthorised access.
With Auto Power On/Off Function, the DriveStation automatically turns on/off with your Windows PC.[/quote]

Now i worry slightly that “reducing power” between idles will reduce performance or cause it to consume more power spinning up if the time between idles is short. The last feature still remains my favourite.

WednesdayMorning

Well in my last post i mentioned some changes, i’ve edited the splash to point here. The layout of the splash will give you an idea off what the website will look like. I’m going to use the template that i designed the WoW Site as it didn’t have a WoW Theme to it. Eventually the blog will be skinned to match or i’ll intergrate the blog into it somehow but for now the website will be used for the following :-

• Publishing tutorials, articles and HOWTO’s on pretty much anything I’m working on
• Some Scripts, a few friends of mine are flash developers (flash game developers) and they bitch about there being no truely good and easy to set up arcade scripts so i thought i’d start with that

It’s a pretty limited scope at the moment but I’m sure some idea’s will come to me as I get started.

Exams are nearly over!

I’ve got my last examination off Semester 1 tomorrow and I can’t wait, this has been the most packed semester I’ve had yet and from what i’ve been told this is as bad as it gets. I plan on taking the whole weekend (including friday) off to do absolutely nothing. It’s been a fair while since I’ve had chance to do nothing.

Well i’ll try an update a little quicker next time, probably will be about my new setup for my desktop and my experience with that.

Darius