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I received a Chumby from my wife a few years ago for Christmas and have faithfully had it hanging out on the nightstand ever since. Sometimes telling me the time in fun and different ways – other times providing a bit a random music from the Internet as I try to find the right way […]
Isn’t there a saying somewhere similar to “you can never have enough stuff”? I think that could probably be related to storage as well. And by storage I mean a place to put your digital keepsakes. A digital attic of sorts. It wasn’t too long ago that I ventured into building an upgraded Windows Home […]
It’s been a rough past few days for me. You see, I have a strange need to know what the weather is and what it’s going to be. So much so that I actually have three weather stations in the house that provide both 7-day and 3-day forecasts and current temperature. You’ve probably seen the […]
As spoke about a few weeks ago concerning my Charter Bandwidth upgrades – I suppose it wouldn’t be fair to assume “it just works” with anything Charter related. There has always been a Yin Yang relationship with Charter and I, this time still taking only a few days to come full circle. So what ails […]
For years my Dad and I have joked around about a notecard he had jotted down a few notes on for when he ever got around to buying a new computer. Our conversations about what’s new and great concerning the next “must-have” computer always annoyed my sister to the point that we’d have to postpone […]
I’m a digital pack rat. Well – mostly. My “junk” is really pretty organized – I just have a lot of it. Last November I upgraded my primary storage system to 4 TB and it’s done pretty well for me… hovering around 3 TB used. My secondary backup server carried the replaced 500 GB drives […]
Today is a good day. I like it when putting together systems just works. My upgrade to 4 TB of online storage went swimmingly well for the Claymark datacenter. Sure it’s easy now… Newegg put their 1 TB WD drives on sale this weekend and I told myself once it hit $99, 4 new ones […]
To quote one of the all time famous lines from TopGear’s Jeremy Clarkson: “How hard can it be?” Now really – I’ve had my personal HTPC humming along nicely for about 5 months now. I’ve been blown away by: Very low noise Fantastically smooth 24 fps 1080p HDTV playback Vista Media Center (don’t use it […]
It's now been about a week since all of my HTPC parts arrived and I suppose it's time to divulge a little bit of my day-in-the-life drama of experiences. I do enjoy a bit of computer building as a hobby. Some might call me a computer geek in that I have a basement full of […]
As part of my new work-from-home efforts, I received an HP All-in-One OfficeJet 6310 for my printing, scanning, and faxing needs. For a retail price of around $150, I was pretty skeptical. However, after a few days of using it I have to say I’m quite impressed with it’s printing abilities and my need for […]