It has been at least 3 years since my last PC build. My rule of thumb is to build a new PC with at least twice the capacity at the same price. A lot has changed in 3 years so it’s pretty easy to find new parts with at least 2x the power. From my [...]
We went to Curry House today. It was a sunny day when we talked about: The “fusion” finish look of the new Toshiba Satellite U405 laptop. Live survey in the all hands meeting, based on a third-party company assessment. My choice of career advancement is “Work from home”, which is not a popular choice, apparently. [...]
Summary: Upgrade the PC hardware. Add more hard disks. Update to the latest OS. This web site seems rather straight forward from a reader’s point of view. It’s actually a pretty complex system underneath it. It’s made up of many different components. It starts from the hardware, operating system, database, all the way to networking [...]
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Wow, I couldn’t believe I had to rebuild my Linux server, yet again after 2+ years of operation. I always suspected the old 80Gb Maxtor drive to be flawed, but not this serious. I procastinated in fixing it and too laxed on the backup. Well, last week thursday, after a city-wide power failure, my drive [...]
Ever since I built my first PC, I always find myself wanting more storage in one form or another. Nowadays I find myself recording kids shows from TV and record them into DVD and xvid to play on my Phillips portable DVD player. But before that, I bought digital camcorders and cameras that require more [...]
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