Steve Pitts

Steve Pitts

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"The User Profile Service failed the logon" in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

A couple of nights ago I had a Paragon HDM backup fail whilst processing the spinning disk in my gaming rig with the message "VSS: Can't read volume data. (Source: Hard Disk Manager)". Research suggested that the disk was probably failing and it was just a matter of time. CrystalDiskInfo reported a 'Current Pending Sector Count' of 1 and further digging revealed that that too might indicate a disk on the verge of failing, at least badly enough to confuse Windows. Sadly with Parago

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Reply to Good review of free Windows backup programs. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

"not able to create a backup of the Windows partition though without a reboot" Interesting, because that does not gel with my own experiences with the Paragon products, although I switched from Backup & Recovery Free to Hard Disk Manager 14 just over a year ago and it might be that the latest free version has such problems whilst the paid for edition does not. FWIW there is one other fact about Paragon's tools that might be worth pointing out, in light of recent

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The Microsoft sceptic and the Windows Storage Server NAS - Introduction in Gadgets & Electronics JoeUser Forums

I suspect that some of my colleagues, who are used to me cursing and blinding at Microsoft and its creations on a regular basis during my work day, would be surprised to discover the fact, but I'm just about to take possession of a Thecus W5000 NAS and since there is little information out there yet for the Thecus W range I thought I'd finally find a use for this blog and record my ex

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Reply to The BEST of Open-Source Games in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="22" id="2354963"]do they have working weapons and are there combat missions, or is this just a combat aircraft that is basically doing flight training?[/quote] To the best of my knowledge Flightgear does not include combat of any description. I've not spent much time with it though so I may be wrong

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Reply to The 1 - 1000 number game in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aroddo" reply="245" id="2340990"]There are only 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who understand binary and those who don't. [/quote] 252 people found this funny, but wondered how it related to the original game. Oh, and actually, there are 11 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who try to tell this joke out loud.

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Reply to Which internet browser do you prefer? in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Opera. I've been using it since v5, even paid for v6 and v7 before it went free. Many of the reasons that I settled on Opera all those years ago have been adopted into the other candidates (eg. tabbed browsing) but I stick with it because it is familiar and because even if Windows crashes I can be back exactly where I was (with a couple of dozen tabs open and all of their forward and backward history intact) with the click of a single button after starting the program. I could live with using

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Reply to Favorite Game in Everything Else Stardock Forums

I sunk a huge chunk of time into Oblivion, but I think my all-time favourite would be a toss up between Alpha Centauri, Lemmings or Secret of Monkey Island

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Reply to How hard is it to access internet pornography? in Internet Stardock Forums

[quote who="k10w3" reply="23" id="2167915"]If the fruit of the tree of knowledge and good and evil had not been forbidden, the fruit would have been no more inticing that that of the tree of eternal life[/quote] The above post reminded me of the old adage that there are three ways to get something done - do it yourself, pay someone else to do it, or forbid your children to do it :) Which neatly sums up why censorship of the web is unlikely to be effective, even if it were poss

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Reply to Your First PC Game in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ill_logic" reply="8" id="2137334"]Some side-scrolling ninja game on floppy disk. Can't remember the name for the life of me [/quote] Zool??

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Reply to Your First PC Game in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

First 'IBM PC' game that I played (and owned, before I even had my own PC system) was Links: The Challenge Of Golf (which was the reason that I switched from an Atari ST to a PC). First 'Personal Computer' game would have been a 'navigate the blob cursor through a maze' game (typed in from a listing in a magazine) on a TRS-80. First computer game that I ever played would have been Advent (which became known as The Colossal Cave Adventure in its la

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