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Thecus 4100+ - NAS shipping defected in and out

Completely revamped NAS hardware – but my broadband has 3x more bandwidth… what’s going on in Taiwan?

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My Dual 27" Screen Cockpit

Dual 27 inch NEC screens on my desk

just found this pic of my dual 27” screen cockpit I shot in April

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Logitech MX Revolution product managers on crack

And another product management team on crack… the new “revolutionary” Logitech MX mouse in default ship SUCKS

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LinkSys WMP300N hassles - device not detected, 1 mbit instead of 300 mbit

Experiences with a piece of PCI junk hardwar in the 2007 – just when you thought driver hassles are past

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My Dream System - Stuff that you REALLY need for working

Post about a very probable major config upgrade here… and forget about the VISTA craze… it’s not about some gigs more RAM or a new grafix driver

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Testing Dual Opteron, Dual Core 265 Server

After years of using DUAL-XEON servers only, theplanet now offers a Dual Opteron, Dual Core 265 Server Our 1U rackmount server for 2 days now… Mine is already deployed and I'm trying to migrate a good amount of database bound…

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Cheap and reliable SATA RAID5 - Promise FastTrak S150 SX4

After having my 3 months young Samung SATA disk crash, and spending (WASTING!) considerable time recovering from old backups, old disks etc.etc. I came to the conclusion that my workstation needs a pro-like storage sub system. Of course I have…

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Onboard aC97 , ALC850 Soundchip on P4P800 stops suddenly... onboard LAN squeezing out HF sounds at high load

ASUS P4P800 sound and onboard lan issues tend to cost more time and nerves than expected…

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Siemens FSC Lifebook P7010 - lost the deal because of a 10 EUR saving... sorry

What a wonderful device – Siemens Lifebook P7010 – a sub notebook reviewed e.g. here with perfect setup of long battery life time, great display, a bigger than usual sub notebook keyboard… It weights less than half of my Inspiron…

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Canon MultiPass MP730 Photo

Finally a new printer/scanner combo in the house – with (they say) 22 pages per minute… well – I would be happy with half of them Canon's MultiPass MP730 straddles the line between a photo printer and a do-everything multifunction…