The “I’ve just deleted some photos ‘Oh Crap!'” moment
DaleSo, I deleted 19 photos off my USB stick that I shouldn’t have, it was one of those “oh crap!!!” moments. As soon as I deleted the files, waahhhhhhhhhhhh. Seemed…
Is the Apple iPad really 5 years better than a HP TC1100
Apple to much hype, released announced the iPad computing tablet. *yawn* You can’t buy the Apple iPad yet. And when you can, what will you use it for? Web surfing…
Another day, another HP annoyance
On a HP DC7800 system, where do you think the Hardware Virtualization Technology setting might be? Yes, that’s right. It’s in the Security section of the BIOS. Unlike Steve Gibson,…
How to extract device drivers from your PC.
Use Driver Magician. Why? Well sometimes you’ll get a laptop from a manufacturer, and to remove all the crapware, you’ll want to reformat the laptop. Reformatting is normally the best…
Tape backup, reliable? Never ever!
Or how tape backups have failed my customers over the years, and wasted our collective time, because of customer stupidity. Melted tapes The school which stored their entire backup…
USB to ISA adapter board
Got an old PC which you cannot replace because it’s got a specialised ISA Adapter board in it? ISA, dear reader, was introduced in 1981, with the original IBM PC. …
“… concerned about the heating of external drives …”
“I'm concerned about the heating of external drives because many of these little enclosures provide no active air flow across the drive.”, opines Steve Gibson. And in the field of…
Computer Hardware Poster
Everyone I’ve shared this poster: with, has said, “Where did you get it?” Right here: sonic84.com and sonic84 @ deviantart.com
“Beware of Integrated eSATA ports”
I don’t like quoting whole slabs of another blogs posts, but this is worth spreading to a wider audience: … If you only use a single drive attached to an…