I burned my first Blu-ray disk the other day using Nero on a Sony VGN-FZ283BN laptop. I wanted Fear & Loathing, but it’s only offered in HD-DVD at this time. Fear & Loathing is owned by Universal which only supports HD-DVD. Stupid format wars! Whatever. I just tested the drive to see if it worked [...]
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I was asked the other day to write a program to scrub some 50,000 Microsoft Word 2003 documents of hidden data. I was surprised at first because I had no idea that Word secretly tracked changes in documents and who changed what. Apparently this problem is dangerous to companies in particular. Imagine writing in a [...]
Copy And Verify Large Amounts Of Small Files With ViceVersa
Posted in Software on Mar 14th, 2007
Last week I was faced with a challenge. I needed to transfer 108,998 files in 15,524 folders totaling 215GB in size from one hard drive to another on a server. Many people are too quick to trust a hard drive along with windows copy. But these two are not always perfect. Anyone who has ever [...]