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This is a great gift for the geek that has everything or is actually something you can afford away from a typical Geeks wishlist. The worst thing you can ask a geek is what he wants for his birthday as the answer could hurt your wallet. Jump on over and get him a Barcode clock I can guarantee he will
Thursday evening my wife came up to the office and asked me if I was ok. I replied no. This was from the prospect of having to replace a hard drive in my laptop. The twice daily backups was beyond painful, and I could tell the drive was getting worse. I said as soon as I get home Friday from
I talk about this once in a while because I think all of us need a good whack on the head from time to time. Imagine you go out for dinner and you come home and your hard-drive in your computer has decided it has had enough spinning at 7200 RPM's and will soon become another table top talk piece.
I have had to migrate a few Hard-Drives in my day and it thinking about it gives me nightmares. Luckily we have came a long way in that department. Their are some great tips over on ExtremeTech that you can take a look at if your considering a hard-drive update. [ExtremeTech]
I sat here tonight for about 2 hours sending out e-mail getting caught up, and you know what really sucks, is when you get a e-mail back from a mailing list saying, hey I think you sent this to the wrong group. Sure enough, anyone have a baseball bat, fortunately it was not the one before that, which I sent
This story comes as a surprise. You know that big LCD TV you bought with your entire tax return and half your credit card balance. Well it seems the good old fashioned CRT monitors are more energy efficient. They use so much juice people have actually noticed their electricity bill go up... [Engadget]
I remember in the last house we lived in that I could aim my webcam down the hallway from my office and actually see into the kitchen. I had pcanywhere running on the PC so when I could take a few snaps to hopefully catch a glimpse of the kids. Well one day I turn on the camera and who