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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Thunderbird 5: Slow (and incompatible with ESET)
I recently upgraded to Thunderbird 5. First impressions: pretty, and pretty slow. Lots of lag when deleting email made for a real pain when removing the 100 or spams and viruses that show up in my inbox every day. There’s … Continue reading
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Cloning Hard Drives With Acronis
I previously wrote about using Acronis True Image Home or Lenovo Rescue & Recovery to back up a hard drive – and using that backup to migrate to another drive. I’ve since used the clone tool in TIH 2011 to … Continue reading
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Strange Laptop Drive Noise: “Whoosh”
I recently upgraded the 320G 7200RPM drive in my ThinkPad T400 to a 500G 7200RPM drive. The new drive works, but intermittently makes a really annoying “whoosh, whoosh…” noise. I had a perfectly fine Hitachi 320G drive in the StinkPad, … Continue reading
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