I just installed Ubuntu on my notebook. This notebook will be my in-the-field repair and diagnostics machine and therefore I need to have it working with things like a network packet sniffer, boot diagnostics software, and so on. Most of you know I am a Microsoft software expert, therefore up Read more…
Techies know this: RAID0 is fast, but it will come back to haunt you at some point. The haunt has just started. I have a 2x RAID0 set in my PC, I know… it’s bad. These disks are now about 3-5 years old and they have been used heavily. Now Read more…
I had a really old website that has been taken offline now, after several years. It was hosted by UPC. I have canceled my account with them in 2005 (when I moved to Chile) and up to today they have not taken my website offline. Luckily my old credentials of Read more…
Microsoft is calling unwanted newsletters that you have subscribed to… “Graymail”. Right… Wasn’t “Graymail” something like blackmailing the government to evade prosecution? Silly that Microsoft’s marketing gurus overlooked that… or didn’t they? In either case, I think that any newsletter that does not provide a one-click opt-out… is spam, simple. Read more…
My new PC is up and running, it took me a whole Friday to put it all together and the better part of the weekend to make everything run like I want it to… (including probably a Monday & Tuesday as well) but it is worth it. The computer case Read more…
My UPS has been running non-stop for almost 5 years now. I’ve bought this device in April 2007 and it has been working fine ever since. Yesterday I decided it was time to rearrange my little corner of my office, take out my PowerEdge server and with it, service my Read more…
This post is a bit more about power savings. If you read the last post you probably noticed that I’m going all happy about saving electricity with my computer, let me explain why. In the past I had 2 servers. One simple one, a DIY PC with some neat motherboard, Read more…
My PC has become unreliable lately, so it is time for a change. After 2.5 years of heavy duty I’ve decided to perform some delicate surgery… My current PC is quite a feat of engineering. Let’s take a look at the specs: Processor: AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition Quad Read more…
Just one of the things the average user is batteling with every patch tuesday is that if you have 10 different software products installed, you have 10 different update procedures to go through. Something tells me this could (and should) be a lot simpler. One of the best updaters in Read more…
Certificates that are stored in a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) of a computer, marked as non-exportable should not be allowed to be exported, ever… It seems though that iSEC found a way to ‘Jailbreak’ non-exportable certificates. The big question is: is this a hack or is this using official supported Read more…