Cav's Place

I knew of the talks about this for quite some time, but it appears that now they’re no longer just talks. I still think that it’s a leap in the wrong direction, however, because allowing characters that aren’t in the Latin alphabet in domain names encourages people to use their own native languages on the […]

It’s certainly not better than the first one at least. It passed the first test I put it through, but failed the second. Further tests initially marked 48 bad clusters, then only confirmed six of them, though it struggled through all that 48-cluster area. What’s more, it started making worrying noises after those clusters were […]

I had planned a rant about this topic for quite some time now and I guess this provides a good opportunity for it. Seriously, how can a more or less regular flu be declared a national emergency? Even if this particular virus originates from another species, it’s not noticeably more severe than those that cause […]

I hoped I’d be back to “normal” yesterday, after finally getting a replacement for that failed HDD on Wednesday. It didn’t work out, because the “new” drive was dead on arrival… I just put it in, turned the computer on, heard four rather ugly sounds and saw the system hang while trying to detect it, […]

Sent that HDD to the shop last Monday and it seems that what I heard about their warranty services is quite true. The contract states that they must inform the client of the cause of the malfunction and the method chosen to solve the problem (repair, replace or refund) at most ten days after receiving […]