Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

Engadget breaks the news that the iPhone has been unlocked. Kinda reminds me of a favorite quote of mine:

“The only system which is truly secure, is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn’t stake my life on it” - Gene Spafford

I am working on this Vista Business loaded Toshiba Laptop that has a problem backing up to a DVD. It would always fail and give an error, “The Parameter is incorrect.” ( 0×80070057 ). I couldn’t find to much help online, however I did find this potential resolution.  So far it seems to have fixed the problem.

This error is caused by a bug in File Backup where if you don’t back up at least one file during the full backup, every backup after that fails. The workaround is to go through the Backup wizard again and choose a new full file backup at the very end.