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Compras Nikon Bluetooth

1 Lacie 500gb Big Disk
We purchased the BigDisk in December 2003 to act as a secondary backup for our office.
For the first few days it worked perfectly, install was quick and easy and the back up of data was very fast. Then without warning the drive letter was gone, and looking up the "computer management" tool reported the BigDisk as "unformatted". Er, not a good sign. All our data was lost. We've since had to reformat the drive at least 4 times - and we are at the final straw.
I've just written to Lacie to request a fix, as there was nothing relevant in their FAQs. Lets hope they come back with some clue as to what's wrong with the unit. I should point out that the Disk becomes extremely hot with use.

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Q:	What do you call the money you pay to the government when

	you ride into the country on the back of an elephant?

A:	A howdah duty.





Back in the early 60's, touch tone phones only had 10 buttons.  Some

military versions had 16, while the 12 button jobs were used only by people

who had "diva" (digital inquiry, voice answerback) systems -- mainly banks.

Since in those days, only Western Electric  made "data sets" (modems) the

problems of terminology were all Bell System.  We used to struggle with

written descriptions of dial pads that were unfamiliar to most people

(most phones were rotary then.)  Partly in jest, some AT&T engineering

types (there was no marketing in the good old days, which is why they were

the good old days) made up the term "octalthorpe" (note spelling) to denote

the "pound sign."  Presumably because it has 8 points sticking out.  It

never really caught on.