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The 2-day Process Of Recovering Data From a Windows XP Home NTFS Hard Drive

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

I received the dreaded phone call from my dad a few days back: Windows wouldn’t boot. Little did I know, I was in for the big one this time.

I tried my standard tricks. I used the ninja-style eight commands to repair Windows, which usually fixes it, but this time it didn’t fix it. [...]

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iTunes Automatic Rating, or Why Your Gnarls Barkley Album Mysteriously Has Five Stars

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

For a long time, I struggled with how to rate my songs in iTunes. I wanted the rating I assigned to a song to sum up my long history of feelings for that song with but a single integer. I wanted to know that I could go to my five-star list for a [...]

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