How Do You Pronounce Data?
19 November 2021
After watching a handy pronunciation guide video we pondered our own preferences around the office & lab in how to say the word ‘data’. A Star Trek friend also weighed in.
How Well Something Works (After I Decide to Fix It) - an xkcd comic
16 May 2018
A humorous post about repairs from popular webcomic xkcd. We made a small edit.
Data Recovery D-I-WHY
13 April 2018
Submitted for your approval, one enthusiastic amateur. Put on earth with a screwdriver, a broken drive, and wholly too much time on his hands. In a moment, we will be shown a miracle brought by magical DVD lasers. Although it’s a fact that he should have trusted the professionals, he will tempt fate by converting a 500GB hard drive to a 1GB Linux boot CD, in… The Recovery Zone.
Tips for Handling Memory Cards Properly*
3 August 2012
Are you a digital photographer? Here are some ‘tips’ for working with and handling SD cards and flash memory cards.
Tip #1. Download, email, post-process and/or print your images promptly. If you wait weeks or months, the colors could fade, saturation could suffer and color balance could shift. Or worse, image files could become corrupt or you could misplace your card.
More after the jump!
Dawn of the Tera Era
28 July 2008
Hitachi is forecasting the dawn of a new age in storage technology that it has dubbed the “Tera Era”. Watch below with sound!