by wwarren | Jul 5, 2010 | Apple, Hardware
Apple is acting like Microsoft did before they got hit with all of their security bugs. I bet Apple is on it’s way down to. Unfortunately Apple’s arrogance will make BSD look bad when it’s Apple’s mis configurations that are to blame not the...
by wwarren | Jul 2, 2010 | Hardware, Vendors
I had forgotten about this story until my wife told me she is now having to replace the caps on optiplexes because of this issue. I wrote it off then until i saw this post from Dell where they say the charge3s in the lawsuit are settled because all of...
by wwarren | Jun 27, 2010 | Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Storage, Vendors, Windows
PERC S300 – can it be made to work?. I saw this on the Dell Linux mailing list. I did a bit of research and found this is a windows only FAKERAID product. What I mean by FAKERAID is the card fakes like it is a raid card but all of the work is done on the cpu....
by wwarren | Jun 17, 2010 | Hardware, Printers
Want to see those ink cartridges really disappear? Buy one of these printers. They’ll find your router..hook to the internet and then get “targeted” advertising sent to the printer which it will then print out. HP’s ePrint printers, some of...
by wwarren | May 30, 2010 | Hardware, Storage
SSD’s are so fast that if you use more than one SSD(which you have to for ANY RAID) you may just hit a wall due to the RAID controllers not being fast enough to keep up. What’s interesting is at one point they went to purely software RAID and saw the kind...
by wwarren | May 30, 2010 | Hardware, Storage
The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ – AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News. I don’t know why I didn’t blog this last year. It’s becoming more and more relevant though as folks start diving into...
