Oct

31

Western Digital 320GB Scorpio Notebook Drive

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October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

As I patiently await Solid State Drives to Take over the hard drive market, Western Digital announces a nice 320GB 2.5″ hard drive. Not bad - not bad at all. In case you are wondering, that can hold:

Up to 91,000 digital photos
Up to 80,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 8,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up […]

Oct

22

Free Mac Backup

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October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I have numerous friends who are Mac addicts (sorry, couldn’t resist the pic!). Yep, they’ve gulped down the Apple juice. But one consistent feature of most computer users is that they do not backup their data. There’s no shame in it - just pain. Think about the pain of losing all […]

Oct

19

Colocation Services

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October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Colo who? Yeah, I’ve heard a lot of people say that when they first hear the term - including me! Colocation simply means that you are farming out your servers to another location. This means that you are effectively renting space and paying for services from another company. Now, why in […]

Oct

16

Clone Genius Vies for Ghost Replacement

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October 16, 2007 | 3 Comments

I recently came across an interesting site called Clone Genius.  The software features a Live CD.  A Live CD is just a CD that will boot your computer.  But to get the Live CD, you have to burn an .iso file.  An .iso file is simply an image file.  But many folks have no idea […]

Oct

11

Solid State Hard Drives Hitting Mainstream

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October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Well, all I have to say is, “About freakin’ time!” Hard drives are just slow and prone to disastrous crashes. I’ve heard that a laptop with a solid state drive can load Windows Vista in under 30 seconds. Now, that is amazing ;^) We have seen some entries into laptops […]

Oct

4

Linbox Rescue Server

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October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Linbox Rescue Server is a really neat linux application that could save your tail.  This package is similar to another product that I posted about on my PaulTech called SpiceWorks.  SpiceWorks is a Windows based product while Linbox only runs on linux.  Linbox can monitor your various assets on the network, perform full system […]

Oct

1

Fixing Scratched CDs and DVDs Cheaply

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October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

They should employ kids to test any kind of software or hardware in my humble opinion. They should have them working at NASA, the FBI, Microsoft, Apple, etc. That’s because if ever there was a way to break something, kids will find it. Take optical disks for instance. It seems that […]