"Today, I am not sure that what I wrote is true.I am certain it is truthful." - Charlotte Delbo, from her memoir "Auschwitz and After"
bleh
well, I got my 320GB drive working, this time I set it up by dividing it into 3 partitions, 2 at about 135GB each, the 3rd at approximately 50GB. I think the issue it didn't work to begin with was two fold: 1. I had originally set it up inside windows (I should've just used the hard drive setup disk I have with my older drives to have formatted it outside of windows); and
2. I had set it up inside windows at sizes greater than 137GB. The first edition of Windows XP did not have large hard drive support, so when I first went in and tried fiddling with it, it was confused. I should have installed service pack 2 before fiddling around with the drive.
But the way it is setup now, I shouldn't have any future problems, even if I reformat my primary drive again say in six months. With it partitioned as is, I can still save a lot of stuff without having to worry about future reformats.
The video stuff that I lost isn't a huge loss. I will just have to download stuff from tape to my computer from scratch. Same with the CDs I'd been converting to MP3. That will have to also be redone. I may have lost some stuff I recorded to my computer regarding media footage my student union got a few years ago (stuff that was on Global, CityTV, etc.). I'm not sure if some of that stuff was in the stuff that was lost or not.
So tonight, as I read for my class, I installed my media players and downloaded up-to-date multimedia codecs. Now I just have my word processor to install, along with Adobe Acrobat.
- Steve
another day another dollar
Some of you may be following the updates to the Kwantlen section of my site. I haven't talked too much about KSA stuff in my blog for a long time. In the next few weeks I will be posting a lot of information online.
Here are some of the most recent updates...
- 2005 KSA General Meetings Information now has copies of complaints 1, 1b, 1c and 9 which were filed with the ombudsperson, as well as the ombudsperson's reports related to each complaint. The complaints and reports relate to the September 29 and November 29 Special General Meetings. The same page also now has the KSA Petition to the Supereme Court of British Columbia as filed on June 23, 2005. Soon information on a petition of the Concerned Students of Kwantlen will be posted online.
- impeachment & removal watch 2006 is a page that has complete information about people who were either impeached or removed from the Board of Directors that was elected by the Student Body in January 2006.
There is more information but those two pages were updated the most recently.
If you are an SFU student, check out Titus Gregory's blog, studentunion.ca for some great information about a scandal that is currently unfolding at SFU.
Well, it appears I lost all the stuff I had on my SATA drive. I had purchased a new 320 GB drive about two weeks ago. I moved to it all my video and MP3 files and then formatted my two old drives. That went well, but now Windows won't recognize the new drive, or it does, but it wants to format it from scratch. I did everything I thought I could do to get it working, but without luck. I even checked the connections. I've never had a drive so big, so it makes me wonder why this has happened. I may not have had it setup right to begin with. It's not a huge loss, it's a pain in the but to be sure BUT I do luckily have all my video backed up, i.e. in the original tapes. So I will simply have to redownload and work with stuff from scratch. Which isn't a bad thing. I just want to make sure if I ever want to format my primary drive again in the future, anything I put on the SATA drive won't be forever lost each time.
So today I reinstalled things again on my primary drive, Windows at least. Right now, I am simply updating windows, and going from there. In my initial reinstall earlier this week I think I had some strange worm or virus that fracked things up but I was able to properly install my virus scan and firewall before reconecting to the web and things appear to be okay.
My stomach has been a bit off today. I was supposed to go with Lisa to the fireworks tonight but I decided to cancel, I feel bad cause I cancelled late, in fact, I fell asleep for a few hours and slept through her calls to me. I didn't talk to her until about 8pm. I feel bad, like I've let her down, cause I've not been looking after my health lately.
Back to some reading.
- Steven
Quote of the Week: July 31, 2006
"On the block we could still hear the screams of the children who were being murdered, then only sighs, and at the end everything was enveloped in death and silence. The next day the men told us that the SS men loaded the children into wheelbarrows and dumped them into the fiery ravines. Living children burned like torches. What did these children do to suffer such a fate? Is there any punishment adequate to repay the criminals who perpetrated these crimes?" - Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, from her memoir "Auschwitz: Tales from a Grotesque Land"