All is well that ends well

Today, I feel a little bit better about the USB-thing. After a whole day of trying to recover the things that were on my USB-stick, nearly everything that needed to be recovered is back again. And to top it all, the portable apps are working!

I found this website called PortableApps.com. They provide you with a basic start menu like interface, and a lot of apps that are made specifically to be run from portable devices like a USB-stick. If you're a lot on the road and don't have administrator rights on every pc you use, you might want to check this out.

So far I've installed a synch app, audacity, firefox, thunderbird, GIMP and soulseek. Takes up less than 100Mb, and I'm good to go. I didn't get to test much of it today, but tomorrow I'm planning to spend a lot of time in my thesis local, so I'll be able to give it a thorough testing. I was only looking for a portable synch app, so I could easily manage my thesis data, but then I couldn't resist the temptation of taking my mail and internet configuration everywhere with me.

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Just one of those days

Today is one of those days things are going wrong. It started this morning, after my meeting with my thesis promotor. After each meeting I have to type out what was discusse on the meeting, so I went to my thesispc, started typing the report, finished and saved on my USB stick.

Because I've got a new stick since this weekend, 4Gb large, I thought I could as well put some synchronisation software on it, so I didn't have a hassle everytime I went from my laptop to my thesispc and vice versa. Downloaded some other portable apps as well, like Firefox and Thunderbird, installed everything, and then tried to start it up.

I opened explorer, and instead of my regular file system, I saw this:

Great. Everything seems gone.

After talking to Alfredo I got a bit wiser. It seems that Windows corrupted my root folder. Not much to do about it. This is getting even better now.

So far I tried 5 different data recovery programs, it seems as if some data might be recoverable, but I'll have to get a non limited app first, so tomorrow I'll be able to tell if I could save anything. Besides that, I could still try to load it up in Ubuntu, that's something I'll try tomorrow as well. Too bad I don't have enough disk space left to make an image of it before I just plainly format it and check for errors...

If any of you still have any ideas, just let me know, I'd be very happy!

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KG Sessions 10.11.2007

Finally! A new post! A new mix! Finally my laptop didn't freeze while recording my mix. And it turns out to be a rather nice mix too, which should be worth the download. After all, I keep them small so it wouldn't be that much of a problem.

First of all, the tracklist.

01. Octave feat Ann Saunderson - Black Water (String Vocal)
02. DJ Rolando - Jaguar (Original Mix)
03. Rune - Calabria (Original)
04. Bolz Bolz - Take A Walk (Neo Romantic Dima Remix)
05. FPU - Ocean Drive (Tiga's White Linnen Vox)
06. Carnival - Not Over Yet (Carl Fath Remix)
07. Madonna - Sorry (Album Version)
08. Buscemi - Sahib Balkan
09. Infernal- From Paris To Berlin (Extended Version)
10. The Subs - Kiss My Trance
11. Dave Swayze - Last Flight To Paris
12. Delerium - Silence (DJ Tiesto's In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
13. Rank1 - Airwave (Rank1 vs Dutch Force Remix)
14. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

I do know there's a little flaw in the end somewhere, it's up to you if you can find it out. Please get it and let me know what you think about it. I appreciate every comment.

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