Category Archives: Hardware
Cleaning keyboards
I may have to try this... 43 Folders has a post on cleaning keyboards by putting them in the dishwasher.
I'd usually wince at the prospect of putting an expensive (well, semi-expensive -- the ergo keyboards aren't cheap...) piece of hardware into the dishwasher, but after looking at my keyboard, it's clear that it needs a [...]
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Good thing I keep spares...
Today has not been my day for computers. This afternoon while plugging away at some editing, I accidentally kicked the power cord for my external USB drive and it briefly cycled off and back on. When it came back on, my computer had frozen up.
That was weird, but after it became obvious it wasn't going [...]
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A six month (re)review
I do a lot of reviewing products, hardware and software, and I try as best I can to put the products through the paces thoroughly before writing up a review.
But. Still.
There's only so much a few days or weeks of testing will really tell you. Readers want reviews of products more or less as [...]
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Hardware vs. Linux software RAID
You might think that hardware raid would be better than software RAID, and the hardware RAID manufacturers will no doubt encourage that mindset, but Jeremy Zawodny isn't convinced:
When I rolled the crash cart over to put a keyboard and monitor on it, I found that the RAID array was simply gone. No trace. I poked [...]
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It lives!
A few weeks ago I mentioned that my main system was having problems and that it was time to upgrade. After a lot of looking and a few delays, I finally got all the components I ordered today and put the new machine together.
Though I started off planning to get a Core 2 Duo system, [...]
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Time for a new system
I was away from my computer for a while today, and when I came back, I found it powered off. After a little examination, it looks like the fan in the power supply died, the machine overheated, and powered itself off or the power supply just failed.
Lucky for me, I keep a few spare [...]
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Magical Ink. I has it.