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New Hard Drive == BSOD == Brown Trousers

On Friday I got a Seagate ST3500320AS – 500GB, SATA2, 32MB cache – and used it to replace the 250GB IDE Western Digital as the Windows boot drive (removing a 120GB WD which used to be the boot drive and became purely for storage when I built this machine a little over 2 years ago).

Used Acronis True Image to copy one drive to the other to dodge installing Windows (last installed 25th April 2006!). All goes well except the next morning, the machine’s back at the login prompt. Fair enough, maybe I restarted the machine and forgot to log in. Until the same happened the next morning…long story short, it turned out that ntbackup.exe was using Volume Shadow Copy, and for whatever reason that made the machine chuck a BAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD.

Much Googling suggested a driver issue, and eventually I found this post on techspot.com, with the following:

open regedit from the run menu.

goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE-10318}

Export this key so you have a backup of it. (I know this solves the MSbackup but I don’t know if other problems will pop up.)

delete the key “UpperFilters”

re-boot

My computer did a “Found new hardware” when it re-booted and required another re-boot.

Go ahead and re-boot

Worked fine, so I’m happy.

Which Office 2007 App Are You?

Which 2007 Office Application Are You?

You are Excel 2007!
People trust you to find the right answer. They call you “the wizard” and are in awe of your PivotTable. When you say you love functions, it’s understood that you’re referring to spreadsheets, not social events. You import and export with ease, always maintaining balance. Thanks to your mastery of numbers, people are constantly asking you for help with their own budgets. With the new Microsoft Office Excel 2007, you’ll see how those people can get their own answers – better and faster. They will be amazed that they, too, can create a new chart with only five clicks. You may not have been known as a trendsetter, but your ability to use conditional formatting to “see” new trends was well worth any wait. You can analyze the impressive productivity and efficiency gains in Excel 2007 and prove that the benefits justify the costs. Your favorite new feature in Office 2007 is likely to be the charting feature in Excel 2007.

Lightbox Resizing

The Lightbox should now resize the image if the image is bigger than the browser window.

The lightbox JS is awful though.

LaTeX

No, it isn’t some kinky fun with rubber :-p

[math]

F(hkl) = \sum _{j} f _j (\theta) \cdot \exp[-8\pi^2U_j\sin^2 \frac {\theta} {\lambda^2}] \cdot \exp [2 \pi i (hx_j + ky_j + i z_j]

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