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Is this the new I-Pad killer? Lenovo Ideapad Hybrid – Why didn’t Apple think of this?
Feb 15th
I-Pad Killer? Image courtesy: Engadget.com
Hello Boys and Girls,
It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long in today’s market.
Enter Lenovo.
From the looks of it, Lenovo has broken a mold. They have combined two mainstays of the hardware industry; tablets and netbooks, and combined them into this one nifty unit that has a detachable, wireless touchscreen, full size (by today’s standards) keyboard and a FULL OS!
The Lenovo name, to me at least, suggests some premium price point. But I know for a fact that other companies will follow suit. Maybe they won;t have detachable screens like this Hybrid Lenovo U1 pictured, but I’d be happy enough for a $400 tablet with a full OS. Wouldn’t you?
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Commodore64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on) ,8,1
A Tale of Two Admins.
Oct 15th
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA.
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ME
Here’s the scenario….
Backed up info off old laptop to external HD.
During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!!
You know where this is going don’t you…..
Anywho…it turns out XP is able to see external USB HD’s and I nuked the MBR on the drive. Do you know of any freebie tools to recover the data on that drive? I have my bosses personal stuff on it and a lot of my own personal stuff too….and the drive states that it needs to be formatted….
HELP ME Obie-ADMIN, You’re my only hope! :-D
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Karl
Sorry it took so long ive been in windows mobile hell today.
Do not let it format! Knoppix live cd wll fix you right up.
You will be able to see and copy everything even without the mbr.
Let me know how it goes and if it doesnt work i might have some other apps
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Me
I bought a tool to recover the drive….but…..I have a BKF file on
there that is corrupted now….any idea of any tools that are freebies
to be able to recover those files? I suppose I can get the bosses CC to
buy a tool to do it…but I’d rather not…..
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Karl
What OS is the BKF file from? What os are you restoring to? What is the error message?
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Me
Win2k Pro. It is saying that the BKF(windows Backup file) is not valid or something to that effect….
I am running a scandisk on it….we’ll see if it goes. I downloaded a demo of a $ product and I could see the data in the file, but I cannot get at it without paying…..
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Karl
Are you restoring to w2k as well? Did you use msbackup or ntbackup to compress it?
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Me
NTBACKUP to create it. Tried restoring on Win2k server and XP.
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Karl for the win
I’d try to restore on 2k pro but if that doesn’t work check this out:
Backup Exec has the ability to read .bkf files. You can download the trial
version and use it for 60 days for free.If you go to the “Tools -> Options -> Catalog” menus, there is a check box
labeled “Use storage media – based catalogs”. If you remove the check from
this checkbox and run a catalog job on the bkf file, you should be able to
recover any files that are not corrupted. The catalog operation will take
longer to complete, but you should be able to restore any valid file within
the .bkf, before and after the corruption. Its hard to know how much
corruption there is in the .bkf file, so I wish you the best of luck.This link will give you instructions on how to import a bkf file into the
program for restore. Before performing step 6. (The catalog operation),
follow the steps above. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/241600.htm
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Grateful Me
Dude……you rock.
We use BE and I never thought of trying it. Thanks to you I was able to restore….get this…..ALL OF IT.
Rock on Detroit….Rock on Chicago…NAPA, it’s the auto parts store. (If you don’t know what this is…do a Youtube/Google search on Wesley Willis)
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So what have we learned today?
- 1. NEVER, EVER leave a USB HD attached to XP on install and NEVER, EVER nuke a drive unless you are 10000000% certain you have the right drive.
- 2. Karl rocks and has great ideas.
- 3. NAPA, It’s the Auto Parts Store
Hey Cheapskate, Burn ISOs for free on any Windows Platform!
Aug 4th
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite?
No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software!
Either which way this little free solution should float your boat. Check it out!
Reader NotBurntYet wrote in:
I need to burn an ISO on Windows Vista. Long story short I uninstalled the 7gb cd burning suite that came with the machine. I have been able to burn cd’s from Explorer with Windows built in capability. BUT (you knew that was coming) I can not burn ISO’s! I have a older copy of Nero but it is not compatible with Vista! HELP ME! I need to burn my game and can we make it free??
NotBurntYet, Ohio
Hey NotBurntYet, we have a solution for you – real simple like and best of all FREE! It is called ISORECORDER. ISO Recorder is a Window’s power tool that’s installer is around 1.2 mb. It seems to work for all the newer operating systems – XP or better. After you install it you can now automagically “burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder” And all this from the context menu (Right Clicking). Lets check it out:
Download the appropriate package for your Operating System:
XP SP1 or No Service Pack
XP SP2, XP SP2 64 bit, and 2003
VISTA 32
VISTA 64
Next right click on the image you want to burn:
From there the steps are self explanatory – asking you where and how you want to burn from a simple little interface that looks like this:
You can also use ISORecorder as I said to make images dumb quick from cd’s or dvd’s in explorer as well like so:
Cool free stuff with a tiny little foot print! Add this to the how to get Windows XP running on an older machine and yourself a powerful older machine (with burner!) that does not need a huge amount of memory to run!
How can I use Speech Recognition in Windows Vista?
Jul 14th
Have you ever wanted to talk to your computer? You know like “Music On” or “Kill Stupid Flanders!“
Well in Windows Vista, you can! And it is as easy as this:
Click the Start menu >> Click Control Panel >> Click Speech Recognition. >> Click Start Speech Recognition >> Now you can tell your computer what to do!
Be sure to take the Speech Tutorial first to get your computer to get the feel for your voice.
All versions of Windows Vista, even the Home Basic version already have one of the most powerful speech recognition systems available for consumer consumption. Microsoft has invested lots of dough in research and development regarding speech recognition over the years. Lets just say these boys have just about done it right this time! I have been trying to talk to my computer since my Commodore 64 and lets just say it has always been a kind of 1 sided conversation. But I had some big surprises on my hand when my computer actually responded by doing the tasks I requested. SWEET!
Just to give you a heads up we have composed the majority of this post using the features and it did not slow us down one bit! What are you looking to do? Surf the web no handed? Open applications? “type” word documents or emails? Well it is all possible my friends and it is pretty simple to get it going. All you need is Vista, A Microphone and Some time to put into training the beast. We all know you AtA readers will not sit sit still for a tutorial until you had problems doing it on your own… And you have probably already launched the wizard (Yes we know you that well!). You are going to have to put in 10-15 minutes but its well worth it. Trust us would we steer you wrong? Read the rest of this entry »
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