Time Capsule errors
All of a sudden I started getting errors when backing up to my Time Capsule. Time Machine was only able to to mount the backup drive in read-only mode. Apparently it had got corrupted. No beuno! While I could have followed the recommended approach to format the drive (!) and start again, I didn’t really want to lose my backup history.
First of all I tried good ol’ Disk Utility, but that was unable to repair the disk. It did give me a valuable clue however with this cryptic message:
“Invalid siblings link”
Since this is just a file system, in this case HFS I figured there must be some command line utility to run that could have a go at fixing the problem. Enter “fsck_hfs“, which works in a very similar manner to it’s Linux cousin e2fsck. The only tricky part was figuring out what the path to the drive was, but luckily you can get that from Disk Utility by selecting the drive and choosing Info. In my case, /dev/disk2s2. Putting this all together I typed this into a terminal window as root:
fsck_hfs -r /dev/disk2s2
and waited. And waited and waited! A good 20 hours later fsck_hfs finally announced it had successfully repaired the drive. Whew! Worth the wait I guess.
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Motorola Q ActiveSync
So I got myself a new Q a few weeks ago and set it up to download my emails via our corporate exchange server. This weekend I messed around a bit with this and that and had to do a hard reset. When I set it up again I kept getting this nasty error:
activesync support code 0×85010001
I knew the settings were right so what gives? Fix was easy. Just restart the phone. I guess that’s what you get for a Windows Mobile device!
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Apple Cinema Sleek
So my crappy old monitor finally died. Well, it wasn’t that bad, it was a pretty nice flatscreen LCD, but it was dated. And only 19″ wide and after having my HD TV for nearly a year now it’s been quite depressing to have such a limited monitor.
So.. (what a hardship!) I was forced to look for another this weekend. But of course I didn’t have too look far. I’ve had my eye on the Apple Cinema displays for a while. They are by far the most sexy monitors out there. Exquisitely designed with tremendous color and brightness. Sure, there are probably some with better specs for hard core fraggers/gamers, but I don’t need that anymore. I just need some clean stylish lines.
Given the amount of space I have at home, I went for the 20″ version, which is now running in widescreen mode at 1680 by 1050 pixels. Not that huge really when you compare it to what I could do with the 30″ version. But then again, the price at $699 is just great! And I don’t need that much screen real estate at home anyway, at work is a different matter though!
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