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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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9 January 2010 0 Comments

Keep The Barbarian Hordes At Bay

You may not realise it but your computer system is under constant attack from internet entities, prodding and poking your IP address for slithers of information. Everything from downloading your favorite BitTorrent data to browsing websites draws attention from someone on the internet.
Coming to my rescue is PeerBlock, a powerful application with a small installation signature that actively blocks undesirable internet [...]

5 January 2010 0 Comments

“Fake” MD80 Spy Camera

With UFC 110 coming to Australia in February, and a strict “no photo” policy, I had a hunt around on eBay for some “spy” gadgets so I could at least a sneak a few happy snaps.
One of my eBay gems arrived today – The MD80 Spy Camera … Well at least the fake, cheaper version [...]

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