Windows on Mac is Spooky
Everyone knows, of course, that you can run Windows applications on a Macintosh. When Macs started shipping with Intel processors this became almost a no brainer. Boot Camp is the…
What the heck is a winmail.dat attachment?
Being new to the Macintosh, I'm "discovering" things for the first time that are ancient history for most Mac users. That is entirely to be expected. But I must admit…
.Mac Sync: down for 10 days and counting
I mentioned in my previous post that I have subscribed to .Mac, Apple's online service for file sharing, email, and so forth. One of the neat things .Mac can do…
Migrating a few things to the Macintosh
I've had my Mac for a couple of days now, and I'm having fun with it. Since it's a laptop, it is often more at hand then my main PC.…
A Macintosh a day…
27 years ago, I bought an Apple II+. That was my first computer, and I have many fond memories of its 16 kilobyte wonder. When the Macintosh came out in…
Asus M2R32 motherboard: defective RAID/AHCI?
I mentioned in a previous post here that I picked up some additional hard drives. The 750 GB drive is running happily in an external eSATA-connected enclosure and is providing backup for my machine. The other two drives are sitting on a shelf, and will remain there indefinitely. There is a story behind their banishment from my computer. It isn’t that there is anything particularly wrong with the drives themselves: I’ve finally concluded that my Asus motherboard has crappy RAID/AHCI support.
I have spent the last couple of days repeatedly building and tearing down my machine. First I built a RAID 1 array. Bear in mind that the drives I’m using are good quality Seagate 7200.10 drives: they have full SATA2 support, including Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The drives they displaced were high-end WD Raptor 1500ADFD drives: arguably, the Raptors are better drives, but I had suspicions that WD drives might be behind my problems putting my system into standby mode in Vista. I was wrong.
A terabyte a day
I bought 1.75 terabytes of potential disk capacity today. That storage comes in the form of three 3.5" Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 model hard drives. For a few moments I was holding all…
I may not be smart…
...but you can't fault my persistence. I have managed to break my main PC again. The exact same cause: once again, I decided to try putting my machine in standby…
Case mods…game over, this guy won
There is a sub-class of computer enthusiasts who build extreme gaming rigs. They do crazy things like refrigeration for cooling, and spend thousands of dollars to squeeze an extra 5%…
Kitten editorializing…
I've been working a lot lately, scrambling to catch up with some application programming work. Part of this is a result of being behind the technological curve in terms of…