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Making the Most of 12GB of RAM
Having had my new PC up and running for a month now I recently treated myself to an 8GB RAM upgrade to bring me the the insane amount of 12 GB total. I did this with a plan in mind. The plan was to use some of the RAM as a RAM disk for use [...]
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New PC
Having been employed now for almost a full three months I finally have for the the first time in almost four years some disposable income. On the cards for some time was getting myself a new PC as my main PC was starting to get a little old. After all it is 5 years of [...]
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Number one thing I don’t use my iPhone for
I’ve never used it as a music player! I shoved a few songs onto it when I got it first but I can’t remember the last time I fired up the iPod feature. And I have no idea what happened to the headphones that came with it. Lucas probably hid them somewhere I suspect. Probably [...]
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Defiling my Macbook
With the recent demise of my only Windows PC I have been using my Macbook in its place. All that is well and good except that one of my classes in college is ‘Business Applications’ which should really be renamed ‘Microsoft Office 2007 and nothing else’ Naturally like any other class I have a few [...]
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Bargain of the Day
It’s obviously a mistake but is was visible here a short while ago. Click for bigger.
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Another dead Seagate Hard Disk
Dead Seagates seem to par for the course for me these days. Back in August I had two fail on me and now the remaining one from a RAID aray in my main workstation has died on me overnight. What makes it strange this time is that I was reading yesterday about the 1TB Seagate [...]
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Too much LAN for one man?
Over the weekend I was in conversation via e-mail with The Other Fellow. Over the course of our correspondence I mentioned my setup here at home. Later on that evening I began to realise just how ludicrous my setup has become. I have four different networks, three wireless access points, and an unearthly amount of [...]
Jan 5th, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Boredom, Curiosities, Hardware, Networking, Routers, Security, Software, Technical, WiFi -
A new trick for an old dog
I think I have finally had enough of the festive cheer. Combined with the fact I still have almost three weeks holidays left I think I have gone a bit mad. I was clearing out my computer room and came across an old PC that served me well in the past. It was a faithful [...]