Does anyone remember the Amiga? It was a very specialized computer introduced in 1985. Mainly, it was marketed for gaming and ray-tracing (see Babylon 5 TV series’ CG graphics made using Video Toasters). The graphics and sound were way ahead of its time, much better than the IBM and Apple PCs. I was more involved […]
Wow, I couldn’t believe I had to rebuild my Linux server, yet again after 2+ years of operation. I always suspected the old 80Gb Maxtor drive to be flawed, but not this serious. I procastinated in fixing it and too laxed on the backup. Well, last week thursday, after a city-wide power failure, my drive […]
Ever since I built my first PC, I always find myself wanting more storage in one form or another. Nowadays I find myself recording kids shows from TV and record them into DVD and xvid to play on my Phillips portable DVD player. But before that, I bought digital camcorders and cameras that require more […]
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This AMD 650Mhz box has been unstable since the beginning and for the past few days it has crashed when the server was busy. Maybe one day I’ll replace this old clunker.
Hmm, why do I insist on using an old Celeron 300Mhz PC with 4 5400 rpm (no cache) old scsi hard disks spanned? On top of that, I tried using this system to burn files on DVD-R and now Nero is complaining about “Not enough power to burn at 4x (2x or 1x)”?? Well, I’m […]
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