Posted on August 3, 2010 by Adam
Today’s post will be a mixture of geek and old man. I was chatting to Matt earlier about computer configurations or more specifically, hard drives. I’ve two 34GB WD Raptors, an old 80GB Seagate and a newer 750GB. The first Raptor has the OS. The Seagate has some programs and backups. The 750GB has my [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2010 by Adam
As I mentioned a little while back, I am training to become a Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician. At the beginning of May I passed my second test and can now say that I have the MCDST qualification! Again I have to thank my lovely fiancée Christa for keeping me focused and pushing me to [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2010 by Adam
Over the years we computer geeks tend to accumulate computer parts either through upgrading old ones or buying whole new computers. The same applies to work and although most companies will just throw out old computers, not all like that idea. Recently I spoke about my folding@home farm and this was coming along nicely until [...]
Read More Comments (2)Posted on January 27, 2010 by Adam
A little while back I spoke about folding@home, what it is and what I was doing to do my bit. Well I’ve now got just 3 units running 24 hours a day that are dedicated to folding. Although they’re old machines, they are processing around 700 points a day and that is enough to get [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2010 by Mark
On Wednesday Apple is holding and event which they have teased with the phrase “Come See Our Latest Creation”. For over a year now there have been rumours that Apple has been working on a tablet pc, essentially a device bridging the gap between an iPhone and a netbook. Also its has been some time [...]
Read More CommentsPosted on December 7, 2009 by Adam
Warning!! – This can get geeky! Who can remember the SETI@home program? Anyone? Well it’s still running believe it or not! SETI@home was one of the first distributed computing projects that was accessible to the masses. It was released in the form of a screensaver that used the computers processing power to analyse data – [...]
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