Intel has released a fabulous tool that not only scans your PC for devices but also updates the drivers in one fell swoop. Take a look at the Intel Chipset Installation Utility. This tool eliminates most of the dreaded UNKNOWN DEVICEs on a fresh install of Windows. After your chipset drivers Read more…
Companies are notorious for providing questionable MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). Disks are no exception to this rule. We found that www.behardware.com had acquired actual return rates and so we took their number and compiled the following list. The numbers are …taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have Read more…
When starting Angry Birds on your PC you may see Error: The ADP Runtime Was Unable to Initialize To work around the problem: start Intel AppUp click MY APPS from the menu on the left find Angry Birds, and start it Close Angry Birds (if you want) From this point Read more…
Do you need the default username or password for a router, firewall, switch… Below is a list of default passwords I found and cleaned up. If you know of any other default passwords, please add a comment containing that information at the end of this post. Vendor Model Version Access Read more…
Well, I have had enough of BackupExec. Its really too bad that Symantec’s combination of high pricing and brutal technical support wait times and driven Veritas’ excellent product into the ground… but that is where I find it. As such I have been researching a few other products and this Read more…
UPDATED: November 2016 If you are confused by SAN, NAS, DAS, iSCSI, FC… and want a simple explanation, then this is the post for you! INTERNAL STORAGE = Disks in the Box The classic. A bunch of disks inside a standard (usually Windows) server, configured in whatever RAID you want. Read more…
Originally, this post was titled: “If you are planning on putting a couple of SSD drives in a RAID 1 (Mirror), don’t.” but after many more hours of calls to Intel and pages of reading I can safely say: “If you are planning on putting a couple of SSD drives Read more…
This 4 minute X3 video discusses Qualcomm and Android replacing Intel and Windows (which is not actually going to happen any time soon) and more interestingly that NetFlix is now consuming 25% of North American internet bandwidth during peak TV watching hours in the early evening.
Intel recently released the new NM10 chipset which enables the newest Atom CPU’s, the dual core + dual hyperthread N550, which support 64 bit Windows. I already own an LG x110 with a very nice Atom 270 (roughly the same performance as the Atom 450) and I wanted to know Read more…