iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

On the weekend I had to come into work because our development server (which I won’t give the DNS of) started to have data coruption issues. We had recently uprgraded the drives from a pair of 40Gs to 120Gs. In this graduated process we started with just moving the information onto the new drives then… Continue Reading Your warning about 14′ IDE Cables

Have you considered trying Linux? Here’s a good flash animation of what that’s like. I’ll put a posting up soon on why I’m angry with a certain linux server. www.olene.net/linux.html Also, here’s another flash he did on switch from Windows to Mac (a little more positive) olene.net/switch

On the weekend my iPod had a few write errors, and Wednesday night I thought I’d get around to making a backup of the machine, fearing the inevitable. I added a few music files first and got an error after the first one copied. Then I tried to copy the whole thing ASAP and drive… Continue Reading Well, my iPod is iPooped 🙁

As is my habit, more information about each link can be found via the WikiPedia links – they’ll open in a new window, but they’ll all share it. Why do I love Formula 1 racing? If I had to give on reason it would be the sound. The 3.0-litre, ten-cylinder naturally aspirated engines sound amazing… Continue Reading Getting ready for F1 2005.

Good ‘ol Wikipedia. What a great resource it is. I know it shouldn’t be in the bibliography of a high school essay, but it’s always a good place to start. Today I was thinking how I could embiggen my blog, especially with this lousy Smarch weather we’ve been having. Wikipedia had the answer in it’s… Continue Reading My blog, embiggened