120GB OCZ RevoDrive PCI-Express SSD Solid State Disk (read 540MB/sec – write 480MB/sec) for €327! Almost affordable, and you get 2 quality SSDs with built in hardware RAID0 communicating over 1GB/s PCIe x4 bus. My current set up feels fast (~150MB/s read/write 2x 7200rpm 64MB cache spinny drives, fake/soft-nvraid) and cost just over half that…
I’ve owned a 1TB Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive (hmnhd for short) for about a year now. It’s damned handy for sharing media files between my computers (and housemates). In fact, if it was feasible, i would use a network hard drive for all my data across machines and OSes. There are however drawbacks.…
have had the stanton box, timecode records, and a zillion leads sitting in it’s box for nearly 3 years. just got the correct firewire lead for it, *and* ditched trying to get the software that came with it to work. i don’t like using illegal software, but in this case it was actually the only…
1) don’t use 64-bit unless you have more than 3.5 GB of RAM installed. more trouble than it’sworth. 2) to change minimize, maximize, close window buttons from left side to right side of top of window: run gconf-editor and go to /apps/metacity/general/button_layoutchange from “close,minimize:” to “menu:minimize,maximize,close” 3) get the win key working: run gconf-editor and…
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/skygrabber-american-drones-hacked Pretty amazing what the US military counts as “hacking”. OK I think a lot of people know that what the media calls hacking is actually “cracking” -circumventing security systems. The US military it would seem have another view entirely. A method one could use to “hack” the military drones is to tune in a…
excitement overload as this box appears GOODS! YAY! playtime!gotta fix up my big PC box first tho.. update: installed new system fan and disabled on-board graphics. still givin me jip. unpacked my new AKG 601s. incredibly comfortable so far, nice big cushions, circumaural design covers the ears well. con: lead is well embedded in there,…
