I just connected another hard drive to my iMac which meant I ended up with the mess shown below. That’s 4 drives, with 1.8TB of space (that’s in addition to the 500GB in the iMac itself). Seems like overkill to me. In my defense I submit that I’m paranoid about backups and as far as [...]
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HP & Microsoft say that the 512MB of RAM delivered with HP server is enough to deliver 5 media streams at one time. It’s been streaming and copying files fine for me, although there’s rarely even 2 active connections and never more so I can’t say if the 5 streams is reasonable. But when [...]
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I purchased a APC BE750BB Back-UPS 750VA UPS awhile ago and had plugged my Windows Home Server into it but never configured the shutdown or power management. The APC Powerchute software is not needed to do this. (Although I may install it sometime in the future to see what the differences are.) So this [...]
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Among the other updates Apple has also released Apple TV Take 2 and it’s available for update through your Apple TV settings menu (or you can wait for it to happen automatically). I installed the update today. I took about two minutes to download and another five to do the actual installation.
There’s a new [...]
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When I rearranged my office recently my printer ended up about 8 feet from my computer and the cable was only 6 feet. USB cables were too expensive locally, close to thirty bucks for one long enough. So I ended up ordering a Belkin 16′ USB Cable for less than $8. Ok, they got [...]
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I was in Staples before Christmas and they had the Seagate FreeAgent Go external drives on sale. I’ve never bought a 2.5″ external drive before because of concerns over reliability. But at about fifty cents a gig and the small size I decided to get the 80GB version. The small size would make it easier [...]
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