This has happened to me twice now. once with an external hard drive and once with an orange 3G dongle. After a bit of research on the net it is caused by the high current drain of these devices. I have tested with a memory stick and it is fine. Also if you plug in [...]
I have now backed up more than 100 DVD’s. 2 things that may be of interest to anyone else wanting to do this. The average size of a DVD backed up using handbrake is 1.4Gb. The second is hard disk space. If you are going to be backing up TV series then you will need [...]
I have not attempted this before, but I wanted to take my laptop into town. In the van I have a full size desktop which dual boots windows XP and Linux. I use the Laptop running linux via a wifi router normally and use the Orange 3G on my desktop under windows when not near [...]