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Corsair H50

By Nick | Published: 05.04.2010
Wow. This thing works. And it’s so simple. My GF/Fiance/Wife’s supercomputer (Core i7, DDR3, GTX 260), had a little running hot problem. I decided to buy a Corsair H50 water cooling kit at Fry’s, and try it out. The reviews on NewEgg were all great. I discovered however, that her case doesn’t have a spot [...]
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My RAID Stillbirth

By Nick | Published: 01.04.2010
I attempted to construct a 5 disk RAID-5 on the in-house supercomputer (a Core i7), but I ran into a problem. One of the disks was screeching like mad. It sounded like something was scraping the platters… It was somewhat amusing. As soon as I had built the array, and restarted, the noise came on [...]
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IT Behind F1

By Nick | Published: 31.03.2010
Slashdot has a cool article about the computers behind the cars in F1. Maybe there’s a future for me there….
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New LCD at work

By Nick | Published: 29.03.2010
Check out my new “work” LCD: It’s 27″ and at 1920×1080. Pixels are a little larger than I’m used to, but I’ll live. The other monitor is a standard dell 17″ that I use largely to remote in to other computers.
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I Want This

By Nick | Published: 04.01.2010
I can forgive the label, “Smartbook”, since it’s reportedly so cheap. A $200 tablet? I’ve been waiting for something like this before I ever bought a mobile PC again. From PCWorld: Next to the 512MB of RAM, up to 64GB of internal storage (microSD expansion) and a 1GHz processor, Freescale’s smartbook tablet features a potentially [...]
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Normaliz.dll Missing

By Nick | Published: 09.12.2009
So, I have one day to get this computer up-to-date, and I’m uninstalling all the junk that’s on it: Old Symantec Endpoint Protection* Old Firefox Tons of suspicious software A few old JREs IE7 Beta 2 Now, I also reduced the size of System Restore as well. However, I might have been a little too [...]
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Microsoft’s New “Tablet”

By Nick | Published: 23.09.2009
Microsoft has a new product coming out, and unlike … every other product they’ve made, I’m actually interested in giving them money for it. It’s called, Courier, and it isn’t really a tablet, it’s a booklet! From what I’ve seen, it looks awesome. However, since it has two touch screens, I’m assuming the OS is [...]
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