Category Archive: Hardware

Jun
03

Review Of The Western Digital Elements 2 Tb External Hard Drive

Regular readers of this blog will have seen that I have been doing some work on a solution for the storage of all my digital media (DVD’s, Movies, Photographs, Music etc.) I will not go into the solution that I have actually done because it will just cloud this review, but if you want to …

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Jun
02

Home Computer Network Finally Finished

Recently I have posted about my tribulations with setting up my perfect network at home. A quick re-cap is that we have two Windows Media Centre PCs connected to TVs. a laptop each and my main PC. The main problem we have been facing is one of storage. Until recently we have just had some …

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May
07

Media Centre And Network Storage Solution

I have spent the past week moving 100′s of terabytes of data from disk to disk, trying to find the best solution for the central storage of my media. Let me back track a little and give some background, at home we run a Windows 7 Media Centre, my main desktop and two laptops also …

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Sep
10

Time For A New Web Server

I run several web servers, some dedicated to clients, some dedicated to specific projects I have running, and one for the affiliate projects I run. I also have one dedicated to running my mail server. The latter two have been suffering from numerous malicious attacks. The email server was hacked a couple of months ago …

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Aug
27

Sheevaplug With Ubuntu And Dansguardian Update

In my last post I talked about how I setup ClamAV, Squid proxy and Dansguardian on a SheevaPlug. Overall this has been a great success. I have been testing it on my machines before I role it out onto the rest of the network. I have encountered one problem. When I go to sites such …

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Jan
10

Computer Failure Part 3

Having managed to rescue the partition tables of my machine using ‘The Ultimate bot disk’ I could then boot the machine up into windows, however it was so slow all I could do was login, I could not browse drives or copy anything off. I took the disk out and used a USB to IDE …

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Jan
07

Computer Failure Part 2

I left my main desktop PC with its broken partition table and thus nothing more than a box in the corner last night and went to bed – See my post last night about the strange happenings on my Desktop PC. This evening I have been attacking the system from any angle I can desperately …

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