February Snow PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, 08 February 2009 16:34
Hursley village through the snow

Hursley village in the distance, snug against the snow. - February 2009

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Stunning November Sunset PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 09 January 2009 16:39
Sunset over Southampton docks.

During November 2008 we had a few days of stunning sunsets. I took several pictures, but this seemed to be the best.

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Cruising Ventura Print
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Friday, 18 April 2008 12:41

Even before Ventura was officially launched, 2500 passengers had a chance to sample her contemporary style and elegance on a 2 night party cruise to Bruges. Our friends Sarah & Steve, Julie and I would be 4 of those passengers. So how was it...

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Gparted - an open source alternative to Partition Magic. Print
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 00:00

Here's the situation. The 80Gb harddisk in my wife's Acer laptop came configured as two FAT32 partitions. The reason Acer did this was because the supplied backup solution was only capable of reading and writing to FAT32 filesystems. The second drive was used to store the backups, and to me, having a backup on the same physical disk is no backup at all.

So I need to reformat the C: drive to NTFS, delete the D: drive then re-size the C: partition to use the free space previously occupied by D:.

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