stuff on hardware

offsite backup

Saturday, 18 August 2007 4:11 pm by noel
posted in hardware, linux, stuff

the idea of an offsite backup came up when two of a client’s servers almost got soaked when part of the office roof gave way during a strong storm.
i already setup a system where a backup of the databases and all important files from the desktops and laptops is done daily to a central file [...]

4gb sweet spot for vista

Wednesday, 21 February 2007 9:21 am by noel
posted in hardware, software

i got a link from slashdot that vista and its users would be really happy with 4 gig of memory installed in the system. forget about putting in the minimum of 512 meg — that’ll just make vista slower than xp.
as of this writing, two 2gb ddr2 800 geil sticks goes for 17,500.00 pesos over [...]

two-drive crash

Monday, 5 February 2007 8:11 pm by noel
posted in hardware, software

three hard disks. disk number 2 decided to go south for a permanent vacation about three weeks ago. i think disk number 1 wants to follow soon. and i have this sinking feeling that disk number 3’s partition table got trashed.
disk 2 had my pictures, music, a handful of videos and downloaded software programs (all [...]

reboot

Thursday, 4 January 2007 8:41 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, hardware, internet, stuff

the first week of the new year and i don’t know if its a good week…
i feel sick. the internet is mostly slooow. i had to reseat my memory module so my computer can boot. my scsi hard disk is acting up sometimes refusing to start up.
i think i need to reboot this first week [...]

are you kidding me?

Thursday, 21 December 2006 7:02 am by noel
posted in hardware, opinions, stuff

60k for a playstation 3?!?
are you kidding me?!?
that’s twice the price for the srp which should be around 30k only.
nah. no thanks.
i’ll wait until 2008.