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Building a Monster SpinRite machine

June 19, 2016 Mike S Leave a comment

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I built this to be able to run SpinRite on multiple hard drives at once so I wouldn’t have to wait days to scan a RAID array.
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Electronics, Review

Keep your gadgets sane with the Tech Restarter

May 7, 2016 Mike S Leave a comment

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Do you have electronic gadgets that occasionally lose their minds and need to be power-cycled? Perhaps more than occasionally? Here’s your answer – the Tech Restarter will handle the daily power-cycle of your router or other unstable device. Read-on for the review.
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Linux, Software

Fixing the DBAN “unrecognized device” crash

August 7, 2011 Mike S 1 Comment

The DBAN logo
Today, I was trying to wipe a hard drive on my gaming machine using DBAN 2.2.6 and kept seeing two “unrecognized devices” in the list of available drives. When trying to run the DBAN wipe, it would crash, complaining about /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
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Media Center (MCE), Windows

How I fixed Netflix playback on MCE

February 18, 2011 Mike S 32 Comments

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On February 16, I sat down at my Windows 7 based Media Center HTPC to watch some Netflix streaming shows, and was instead greeted with an Internet Explorer window stating “Navigation was cancelled”. Here’s how I fixed it.
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Apple, Electronics, Travel

Cheap, almost perfect iPad case

June 6, 2010 Mike S 4 Comments
iPad and the case side by side
Showing the size of the iPad compared to the case

It seems that nearly anything with the word “iPad” on it commands a price premium, including carrying cases. Well, I found an alternative case that is nearly perfect for the iPad and it costs less than $15!
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