Archive for the 'Computers and Networking' Category
May 11th, 2008
Please see the update at the end of this post. I’m in the market for a new PC. One of the machines I’m considering is the Dell XPS 420. Dollar for dollar the XPS 630 looks like the better deal but the 420 is still in the running (as is building my own). [...]
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July 16th, 2007
Hard drives will crash, houses catch on fire, previously unknown volcanoes erupt turning your entire town into a magma flow. No matter what the issue I want to keep my data. Personal writings, e-mails, programming projects, and family photos are very important to me. I am very paranoid about losing data so I have [...]
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November 25th, 2006
I’ve been a Microsoft (MS) product user for a long time. It started with MS-DOS 2.11 on my Tandy 1000 EX. Over the years I migrated through ms-dos 6.0 on my way to windows 95 and 98. I never had a personal computer with NT or ME but I did and still run windows [...]
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March 12th, 2006
The worse day in a geeks life has to be when a hard drive crashes. Well, that just happened to me. I’m hoping I wake up in the morning and realize it was all a dream. I’ll log on to my blog in the morning form work just to see if [...]
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April 11th, 2005
Continuing my theme of slightly interrelated random stuff or as ninad commented “completely interesting but completely pointless stuff” I’d like to talk more about A. K. Dewdney. I mentioned A. K. Dewdney Earlier as the author of The Planiverse . In addition to The Planiverse Dewdney has written another of my favorite books The [...]
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