Posted by timothy (91% noise) View Skip MessedRocker writes “I have at least a few USB flash drives around that I haven’t needed since I got my 16GB flash drive, a 40GB external hard drive which I haven’t needed since I upgraded to 500GB, and a couple of SATA hard drives I have pul...

I’m a bit of a digital pack rat. I’ve got emails from all the way back to 1998 — not all of the email I’ve ever sent, but pretty close to it. I’ve got the Excel spreadsheet Greta and I used to send out wedding invitations and thank-you notes in 1989. I’ve got a te...

Cheap netbooks don’t just offer sales appeal. The low price-point is also giving rise to a hardware hacker movement that’s growing quickly. Let me put it another way: are average computer users more likely to hack and slash a $2,000 notebook or a $300 netbook? My money is on the netbook ...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My Macbook is working now, thankfully. I had to get a new hard drive. Instead of an Apple showing up when the Macbook booted up, I saw a symbol with a circle through it, suggesting there was a problem. After much diagnosing and talking with o...

One question which comes up very often is when one should use SAN with MySQL, which is especially popular among people got used to Oracle or other Enterprise database systems which are quite commonly deployed on SAN. My question in such case is always what exactly are you trying to get by using SAN ...

The system basic input / output or BIOS (Basic Input-Output System) is a code of software that locates and loads the operating system into RAM, is a very basic software installed on the motherboard that allows it to perform its duties. Provides low-level communication, operation and configuration of...

Warning: The following is a rant. Please feel free to skip if not interested. What I was trying to do: I had only Ubuntu Linux installed on my laptop, no dual-boot with Windows. The DVD drive stopped working, so I contacted Dell support. They asked me to upgrade the drivers, I said I couldn’t ...

Lighter posting this weekend.  I’m cleaning up the back yard for Spring and other assorted house-cleaning chores I’ve been putting off for a while. Michael Pietroforte at his awesome 4sysops blog has one of the best sysadmin sites I just can’t wait to see a new post from. Michael’s skil...

I picked up an external SCSI hard drive at a garage sale this weekend. Listening to the RetroMacCast has left me wanting to play with the Mac Plus in our spare bedroom and see what I can do it with. I have System 6.0.8 floppies, so there’s a lot of things I can do with it in theory. But that t...

xbitlabs.com: Samsung Electronics has started shipments of its 1.5TB hard disk drives (HDDs) that feature three 500GB platters, which potentially open up the door to 2TB hard drives for the company. However, Samsung claims that ultimate capacity is not the goal for its “Eco Green� Spinpoint F2EG...