LaCie likes DriveSavers for data recovery

LaCie - External Storage: Hard Drives, CD-RW Drives, DVD-RW Drives, Tape, Monitors

Before sending a drive to a data recovery company, check with the drive manufacturer to verify that the company is authorized to perform data recovery. If it is not an authorized company, the warranty will be voided.

We recommend DriveSavers at 800/440-1904. They are certified by all drive manufacturers to do what is necessary to recover data from the drive.

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Good reference to keep. Never know when one will need a data recovery service.

OS X QA outsourced to Microsoft XP team: Another firewire debacle with 10.3.6

Apple - Discussions - 10.3.6 Possible Firewire Incompatibility

I just installed 10.3.6 using the software updater, and was surprised to find that my external firewire drive could no longer boot. I tried to mount using disk utility, but neither it or techtool can see the drive. The funny thing is, the system profiler does see the drive, but not the volume. Anyway, I'm sure it isn't the drive, as that works fine, and the case it is in is a brand new MacAlly external firewire 400 case (installed yesterday).

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A convincing series of user reports are coming in: OS X 10.3.6 has run into firewire compatibility problems.

Just like about 5 other OS X updates.

The most likely explanation is that Apple has outsourced OS X tech support to the Microsoft XP team. Note that XP SP2 ALSO breaks Firewire.

Or, alternatively, OS X Firewire support is profoundly hacked and broken.

Or, alternatively, Firewire is a botched standard.

Or all three.

It is astounding. USB 2.0 is a much better choice for peripherals on Macs that support it.

Firewire is a cool name though, maybe we can use it for some other standard.

This is seriously ridiculous.

Yahoo search: my new search engine

Yahoo Search example

Yahoo search is replacing Google on my pages. I can constrain search across multiple domains (as in this example that searches faughnan.com and jfaughnan.blogspot.com) and Yahoo's indices cover my stuff far better than Google's.

I was a very early Google adopter -- the first user at a cutting edge dot com startup when Google was a complete unknown. Now I'm moving on. Google may be heading for a spot of trouble.

Yahoo vs. Google: Yahoo is winning

Google

Yahoo indexes my google hosted blogs (blogspot/blogger) quite well. Google's search fails completely.

Weird.

World Computer Exchange

World Computer Exchange

Donate selected computers. I've got a few to go here.

PS. Blogger was thrashed today -- status.blogger.com has an extensive apology. They've been staggering for weeks.

iPod Technoporn -- iPod lounge buyer's guide

iPodlounge | All Things iPod

As promised several weeks ago, iPodlounge is proud to announce the immediate availability of the iPodlounge Buyers’ Guide 2004 for free download from the links and locations below. It contains the world's first review of Apple's new iPod Photo.

For the unfamiliar, iPodlounge's Buyers’ Guide is a complete, magazine-style guide to everything iPod and iPodlounge, with trustworthy previews and reviews of the very best iPod accessories, guides to getting free iPod software and support, and much, much more. We've designed the Guide so you can print only the pages you want, and give them to your family and friends as very specific holiday "gimme iPod" reminders.

By reader demand, the Guide contains a complete report card of the over 200 iPod-related products that have been reviewed by iPodlounge, and features the incredible art and photography of iPodlounge readers from around the world.

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Gizmodo loves it.

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 Release Notes

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 Release Notes

I'll try this one.