Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Sky+ Set top box

Just because I work with computers everyone, especially friends and relatives, seems to think I know everything about anything electrical whilst I know lots sadly I don't know everything.

In the course of a discussion with a friend who wanted to upgrade the tiny disk that came with his Sky+ box. The conversation went sort of like this:

Me   : I don't know anything about Sky+ box disks......
Him  : You do computers, computers have disks, I want a bigger disk in my Sky+ box what's the problem?
Me   : *Sigh* OK I'll have a look.

To cut a long story short replacing the disk is a Sky+ box is as simple as a PC so maybe my friend was right.

All that is needed was a new disk. The trick is to get the correct software to do the copy. For this I used Copy+ which is free. The free software worked fine for me. The only issue is you need to use a PC to copy the original Sky+ disk to the new disk.


A final point, whoever wrote the software has spent a lot of time writing the software he has on his site. A link to donate some cash to him for his time and effort is also on the site, if you use his software please consider donating  a few pounds to him.




Monday, 18 October 2010

Microsoft owns the desktop (still)

Why don't you work on Macs? I am occasionally asked this my answer is always that there is no requirement for me to do so as there are so few Macs out there.

Currently of all the PC devices out there including, devices using Android etc, the Microsoft Windows operating system exists of over 90% off ALL machines that browse the web.


 Statistics Date - Sept 2010

 If I was repairing Macs for a living I wouldn't get much business based on the above statistics.