Hardware

Well, after some considering and waffling I’ve decided to upgrade the computers in my office. Unlike the last time this will not be the main workstation (which is humming along just fine) but the “secondary” windows box and Firefly’s system as well. I found Discovery Computers, a new store in town (to me, it’s two […]

As I just mentioned, I’m looking to upgrade my system a bit, something middle of the road, price-point wise, and I”ve been out of hardware for a while, so I have no clue what is best anymore. A while back it was athlon + an asus board, but these days…. no clue. I’m only looking

Wandered into town today to put some paychecks in the bank only to find out that the bank was closed today and monday (but not sunday) due to the long weekend. I stopped by London Drugs to wander through their computer section and stroke the sexy machines and random salesdude asked if there was anything

My last spare monitor appears to have died. I’m trying to work on this spare box I brought home to help a guy out with and at some point it just stopped showing anything on the screen. It still knows when it’s plugged into a computer or not (light goes from amber to green) and

Yay, I’m finally back up at 100% hardware wise. The low level format (writing 0’s to the complete drive) last night must have done it. I ran the drive through a badblocks scan, and then re-inserted it into the RAID5 array and it all went through dandy. Yay!