Archive | January, 2010

31 January 2010 3 Comments

Your Virtual TrueCrypt Vault

These days there are plenty of reasons to have a second computer to do all those technologically “dangerous” tasks that could compromise a computer’s operating system integrity.
You might be downloading new software, either legally or illegally, which could contain spyware or viruses that could cause your PC or Mac to grind to a halt or [...]

20 January 2010 0 Comments

Bargain! Reckon!

Sometimes the stupidest ads are actually to most interesting and Trading Post has got one of the stupidest I’ve seen in a while … Bless their crazy marketing little hearts!
For a week or two I drove past a roadside billboard ad that had a goofy looking goat with a green frog on it head, but [...]

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15 January 2010 0 Comments

ReadyNAS vs WD RE4-GP (WD2002FYPS)

I purchase a few Western Digital WD RE4-GP 2.0 TB hard drives a last year for my ReadyNAS Pro (Business Edition) which was to be my shining 10.0 TB X-RAID storage solution. This one ReadyNAS box houses all my commercial work from the past decade plus has plenty of room for MSDN DVDs, software installation packages [...]

14 January 2010 0 Comments

Sissy Slap Fighting – NOT!

The first thing that I thought when I saw the above clip an hour ago was “Who are these nerds?“, followed by “Please tell me he’s not slap-fighting?” and “Close your fist and call it boxing!“. Then I started to notice the body movement and how relaxed slapping nerd #1 was and thought “This guy [...]

13 January 2010 0 Comments

Packing 4.377 GiB into a DVD?

That’s right … Gibibytes (GiB), not Gigabytes (GB).
Back when I was at school a Megabyte (MB) was 1,024 Kilobytes (KB) or 1,048,576 Bytes. Well nowadays hardware manufacturers have a different IEEE take on what a Gigabyte is. For users like you and me, a Gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 (1024^3) bytes but for the manufacturer it’s 1,000,000,000 [...]

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