Μηνιαία Αρχεία:Απριλίου 2007

Schiller – Live @ Fuzz Club, Athens, Greece on 27/…

Schiller – Live @ Fuzz Club, Athens, Greece on 27/4/2007 – Review

Being a huge fan of Schiller i decided to buy myself a ticket for the 2nd concert in Athens (first as a support act to Depeche Mode, summer of 2007).

The price: fair enough as opposed to other concerts (30 €) yet pricey if one considers what took place during the concert and what the show package offered…

The place: ex-Club 22 mainstream dance club, capacity of around 300 people.

Ticket indicates 21:30 as show start time, Schiller shows up at 22:00, i think one can live with this delay and not argue with it…

One though can argue with the fact that:

  • Heppner, Schiller’s main vocal performer of famous tracks including Dream of you and I feel you, was absent. Instead, what we saw was an excerpt from a live DVD release – Heppner voice over the music the band played live (luckily…) for us!
  • The show lasted somewhat 1 and a half hour with 2 encores of no more than 15 minutes duration (both)…

On the contrary, bathed in super sexy mood that magnetized the audience and a splendid sense of humour, beautiful Kim Sanders was the concert’s star, a fact that can make up for the 2 minor disappointments mentioned above.

Leaving Fuzz Club a bittersweet taste lingers along with a hope that next time we will get to see all female singers and a longer-lasting show…

Installing a new S-ATA HD under Windows XP Profess…

Installing a new S-ATA HD under Windows XP Professional – The DiskPart utility way

So you bought a new S-ATA Hard Disk and can’t wait to plug it in your machine and start using it?
Ok…You have physically connected the drive (power supply, s-ata cable etc) and opened Disk Management utility (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc) just to see the new drive as unallocated…Tried to right click the disk and format it? My guess is that no format option existed…? Right?

If yes follow the steps below to see how a utility shipped with Windows 2000, Windows XP called DiskPart can save the day with a set of simple commands.

1. if you have closed Disk Management re-open it.

2. verify that the disk (i.e. disk 1) shows (as unallocated)

3. right click the disk to view available option.

4. format listed? if not then Start -> Run -> diskpart. DiskPart will help
us allocate partition(s) for the HD along with letter volumes and format accordingly.

5. inside Diskpart we will issue a set of commands marked below within “” (don’t include quotes when executing the command ;-) )

5.1 “list disks” (shows the available disks, i.e. disk 0, disk 1)

5.2 “select disk 1″ to move the focus to the new HD (an “*” appears to indicate that we have selected the disk)

5.3 “create partition primary”

Finished with our partition allocation!

From now on you can check Disk Management to see that changes by DiskPart session are immediately reflected and shown on the Disk Management window. You can now continue with the rest of the steps described below or switch to the right-click context menu of the Disk Management utility to choose drive letter for your partition volume and format the partition respectively.

5.4 “list partition” will show one and only (primary) partition created for the new HD

5.5 “list volume” will bring up a list of the drive volumes that exist on our PC.
Last in list appears a volume with no letter or label whatsoever. This is our HD’s partition created at step 5.3

5.6 “select volume [number]“,

5.7 “assign [letter]” [a letter not occupied by other drives/partitions].

5.8 Inside a DOS session (Start -> Run -> cmd) type: “format [letter assigned at 5.7] /FS:NTFS” to format the partition.

Hope you read through a previous blog on CD/DVD me…

Hope you read through a previous blog on CD/DVD media and ways to understand whether the discs you bought are actually worth burning or not.

In case you haven’t here is the link:

http://dvrazos.blogspot.com/2006/02/ever-encountered-errors-like-cyclic.html

In case you want more here is the link to a forum research thread (Greek only):

http://www.pctechnology.gr/vbull/vb/showthread.php?t=11310

To further drill down on the details here is an exhaustive list of cd/dvd media-discs along with their media id’s (PDF file):

http://cweb.msi.com.tw/html/products/optical_devices/recommend/8352/CD-R.pdf