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LifestreamI may have acted impulsively here, but as I have said before, I’ve been looking for a NAS device for some time. I’m pretty fed up with adding drives to this infernal computer case and the racket they cause. The only problem being that quality NAS units are expensive. But as Synology launched its *11 [...]
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The new screen arrived yesterday. Sorry, no embarrassingly dorky unboxing video. Haha. I think there are plenty of those on youtube already. First impressions are a mixed bag though. The panel itself seems up to spec, no noise, nothing extraordinary about the backlighting that I noticed right away. But my eyes started feeling like they [...]
It is ironic that barely two days after making a lengthy post on the topic of flat panel displays, my 11 year old Mitsubishi 900u Diamondtron CRT dies an agonizing death. I was just minding my business, changing resolution and refresh rate inside some game and the screen went black, flashed briefly but was horrible [...]
Because of changing circumstances, I no longer feel obligated to rely on Truecrypt’s full disk and system partition encryption so I set out to decrypt the drives in question. Long story short, getting rid of Truecrypt is a hell of a proposition. The mistake I did was to overextend system encryption (pre-boot authentication). Once on [...]
Turns out Corsair has a service for requesting free additional modular cables. Two SATA power cables requested. We’ll see how it goes. Given the price of modular PSUs I don’t think it’s too much to ask. Also, my particular HX520 only came with two SATA power cables (four connectors all in all) but five or [...]
I give up. I’ve learned the hard way that kill-a-watt meters don’t work on a lot of new PSUs. I don’t know if I’m the last person on the planet to realize this, but there you have it. I tried three Active PFC PSUs now all in all and they all exhibit the same thing. [...]
Just got a set of replacement WiFi antennas. 3 x 8 dBi and 3 x 5 dBi TP-Link. Cheap and possibly useful depending on how they’re used and the location of wireless clients. The original antennas on most wireless devices are 2 dBi btw. These antennas had been on backorder for awhile, before I jumped [...]
In a spur of the moment kind of thing, I got a D-Link 307 homeplug starter kit. There was a rebate and I was fairly tired of wireless after having wrestled with it since September 2004 when I got my first 802.11g router. Sure, things improved since moving to n-draft three years ago, and I’ve [...]
Big changes around here. I’ve dismantled the MediaPC and moved its components to Workstation 2. I don’t watch TV episodes or movies on the TV anymore and since I’ve been taking my first steps into Usenet territory, there is little need to have an encrypted, dedicated download box. While it can come in handy, it [...]
It seems something has gone very wrong with my D-Link DIR-635 router and internet connection in general. I got a new power supply the other day but another problem cropped up. The router is rebooting / resetting / crashing, throughput is dodgy (see graph) and the router (not the psu) is giving off a distinct [...]
