I recently bought a new flash drive and as I was researching for speed and price, I came across something rather odd.
At first I saw the Corsair Fast Voyager 8GB flash drive. Costs £17.23 and is rather fast at … Read the rest
Category Archives: Computers
The world of computing technology.
Windows Home Server and the Thomson TG585v7 router
It has been noted that this router has a problem with the setup of the Remote Access feature of WHS. It plays nice with the UPnP protocol and the WHS reports as having setup the router successfully, but it turns … Read the rest
Windows Home Server 120 day key
It seems that Microsoft is inaccurate in how you can get a WHS key for 120 day. In this page it tells you that you can either stick with the 30days evaluation or join Microsoft Connect to get a 120 … Read the rest
Windows Home Server Install
So I finally decided to do this thanks to, in no small part, the fact that you can download it straight from Microsoft and have 30 days of full use (or 120 if you do some other stuff mentioned there, … Read the rest
Windows Home Server Shadow Copies
I am researching Windows Home Server prior to the installation of it in the coming days and I found out this little bit of info from Microsoft herself. It is contained in the Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Drive … Read the rest
Uplink – Fun and Ridiculous
There is an amount of admiration for hackers, those system wizards that know far more than many PhD holders. It is powerful to be able to gain entry to secret information and as we all know, power corrupts. This is … Read the rest
RAID and stupidity
My RAID5 setup broke again. The controller told me that one of the hard disks had failed. OK, no biggy, that’s what RAID5 is there, all the data are safe. Sure, but Murphy’s Law states that when something can break … Read the rest
Netlimiter
First of all, I love Netlimiter. It is just what I need in the two-user-one-connection house environment I live in and until they integrate a bandwidth limiting capability in home routers, I will keep on using it.
However it has … Read the rest
XFX Revo64 strikes back!
My NAS finally filled up with all those things I collect and all the CD-DVD I burned over the years and have now transferred to my NAS. 500GB seemed like a good idea at the time of designing it, but … Read the rest
News!
My internet is back! Tuesday noon I got a phone call to my cell confirming that the line was fixed (although I saw that it was fixed when I woke up, but it was nice of them to call me). … Read the rest