Broken RAID’s
Here’s a question that I dont have the answer to. If you break a RAID on the controller — how do you get it back?
Category: Hardware
Installed Memtest86+
Installed and ran memtest 86+ for 40 hours stait this weekend on my linux laptop. No errors, but yet my machine loved to IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL in windows (which is generally ram related) and has frozen up a few times in linux. I think it may be heat related as it only seems to have problems when…
So you want to charge your iPod
I brought my 4G iPod to the office the other day (along with the USB cable) so I could listen to my music and charge it. The only problem is that every time you plug it into a USB port on a computer it, it starts trying to syncronize — which is not what I…
Weather Station
I liked the idea of a sub-300$ weather station, that did exactly what I wanted. Yea you can get an ok Oregon Scientific weather station for a bit over 200$, but thats not as cool as making your own (and its not linuxed powered). Anyways I’m just going to post part costs & part name…
HD-DVD and be done.
After Intel and M$ anounced they were backing HD-DVD all hell has broken loose. I’m so damned tired of the argument between HD & Blu-Ray. Thankfully I’m not old enough to have been involved in Beta/VHS match. This generation of video disks needs to get their damned act together. I have to say I hope…
Harddrives
Yea. I’ve been kinda dead the last while — but what ever. Today I saw an article on slashdot, about Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed. If you RTFA the subheadline says “Half a freakin’ terabyte”, thats awesome — too bad the harddrives actually 500GB. Now I’m no expert in math (in fact I failed calculus) but…