Reviving a laptop
The drive in my work laptop gave a S.M.A.R.T. error over the weekend. I never have had much luck with Hitachi laptop drives. Micron sent a replacement drive--an IBM, thankfully--and, doubly thankfully,...
View ArticleEasy and secure remote Linux/Unix file transfers with SCP
Sometimes you need to transfer files between Linux boxes, or between a Linux box and some other box, and setting up Samba or some other form of network file system may not be practical (maybe you only...
View ArticleSo there is a benefit to running Windows Server 2003 and XP
One of the reasons Windows Server 2003 and XP haven't caught on in corporate network environments is that Microsoft has yet to demonstrate any real benefit to either one of them over Windows 2000....
View ArticleWe\’ll have to wait longer for PCI RAMdisks
In case nobody noticed, it's August. July came and went, and there's no Gigabyte I-RAM on the market yet. But there are a few benchmarks out there, and Anandtech has an article that, once you get past...
View ArticleHow to use compression to help life with an SSD
Since pretty much everyone thinks my love of SSDs is insane, I'll throw another insane idea on top of it: using data compression. It makes sense. Doing it selectively, you help performance, while...
View ArticleSlimming down Windows XP for SSDs and nettops
I found a very long and comprehensive guide for using Nlite to reduce the size of a Windows installation. The guide is geared towards an Asus Eee. But it should work well on pretty much anything that...
View ArticleDefrag scareware
This isn’t exactly news, as word has been going around for a couple of weeks, but if you haven’t heard about it elsewhere, there are some fake defragmenters going around. I heard mention of it today,...
View ArticleIntel enters the budget Sandforce market
Intel announced a new low-end SSD today, the 330, based on a Sandforce 2281 controller. The popular 120 GB capacity will retail for $149. While not as cheap as OCZ’s entry-level SSDs, it’s within...
View ArticleData compression, 1980s-style–and why PKZIP won
My employer has me doing some very gray-hat work that I don’t want to describe in detail, because the information has a tremendous potential for misuse. But suffice it to say I’ve been trying to send...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....