Posted on 12/25/2007 10:33:37 AM PST by Lokibob
Instruction Books
It is Christmas time, when we get those goodies and neat toys. We have to set them up, tweak them, and make sure they work.
Some, if not most of the stuff we get come with an instruction book, sometimes hundreds of pages. After we get the toy working, we lose track of the instruction book.
Here is something I have done over the past year that has been a big help.
I got a 512 meg USB stick disk drive and dedicated it to instruction books and drivers for all of my stuff.
You generally can find copies of the instruction books and drivers on the manufacturers web site. You should go to the manufacturers web site anyway, to see if the driver you have is the most current.
Let me give you an example. I have a Casio watch, 27 million functions, displays time in both analog and digital. Daylight savings time comes around, the digital clock corrects, but the analog one does not. It was a simple thing for me to grab my stick drive , plug it in, go to the watch folder, and find out how to correct the analog (push button A six times, button B twice, and hold button D until the correct time is displayed). This saved me an hour the first time not having to do google searches, and in the future.
just thought I would pass it on, as my Christmas hint to all...
.....Bob
FYI, flash drives aren’t considered stable storage. You should perhaps back it up onto CD at regular intervals.
“flash drives aren’t considered stable storage.”
I’ve read of flash drives left in clothing that went through washer/dryer cycles that work perfectly and still have all their data. Why aren’t they considered stable?
They are electromagnetic storage and can be erased by a sufficiently large or powerful magnetic field.
They also have a limited number of erase/write cycles before they go bad, and have a higher DOA rate than standard hard drives.
Optical, on the other hand, is a lot more durable.
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