Computers (2)

Nov 06

Frugality doesn’t always pay - Just buy Dell

After my business bought several Dells in the past few months I decided that I would try and save a few bucks and just do an upgrade on the couple of home machines that were lagging. Bad idea. What I bought: • Chaintech ...

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Oct 04

CoolDrives SATA Drive Enclosure Review - They SUCK!

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After I learned that my Dell PowerEdge server only allowed two SATA drives in its large case I desperately needed a quick solution to get 400GB database back drive back online for daily backups. Some quick Googling revealed that there were very few options for an external SATA hard ...

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Apr 15

BellSouth DSL has Slow DNS Lookups

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I've used Bellsouth FastAccess DSL at home for nearly 3 years. Its never given me trouble. However, starting in March the time it takes to resolve a URL to an IP has suddenly increased from unnoticable levels to 10 seconds or more. Sometimes by browser gives up. ...

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Feb 25

Speed up Firefox with these tweaks

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Does Firefox seem way slower than Internet Explorer to you? Well it certainly is out of the box. I'm not sure why they don't make the following settings default but check these out. They may change your opinion of the browser.

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Jan 21

Bittorrent TV Show Download

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I only watch one TV show (Lost) regularly but I really don't want to miss any episodes. Earlier this week I did miss it because I was stuck at work due to the crazy traffic mess in the Triangle.