Hardware toolkit for reparing laptops, phones, computers

Posted on: Wednesday, 2013.05.08 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

If you work on computers a lot then you know how important it can be to have the right tool for the job. Thankfully, most computer upgrade tasks are handled with fairly common tools, but if you happen to have a particularly difficult upgrade/repair task ahead of you it might be worth checking out a [...]

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Learning about Bitcoin mining

Posted on: Tuesday, 2011.09.13 by J.D. H. in in computer tips, Misc Links,

You’ve probably read some sensational news stories about Bitcoin mining, I know I have . However, I had lunch with a buddy last month in Tulsa and it really altered my view on Bitcoin mining. I already had an abstract idea about random people out there using CPU/GPU computing power to generate blocks to continue [...]

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Building a RAID 5 array on a Thecus N4100 Pro

Posted on: Thursday, 2009.09.03 by J.D. H. in in Ask J.D., computer tips,

How long does it take to build a RAID5 array on a Thecus N4100Pro NAS using four 1TB drives? About 10 hours and 30 minutes. This was with (4) Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB hard drives, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II (WD1001FALS). I am a big fan of Thecus products! They have [...]

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