Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

Rebuilding a RAID Array on a Thecus N4100 Pro

August 7, 2010Matt No Comments »

Back in April I was having a problem with my Thecus N4100 Pro where it was taking a long time to boot up, I’m talking around 8 hours or so. The confusing part was that on the display, it said it was ready, even though it hadn’t moved to displaying status information yet, and when [...]

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Thecus N4100 Pro Takes A Long Time To Boot Up

April 4, 2010Matt 1 Comment »

Lately, I’ve noticed that if I reboot my Thecus N4100 Pro NAS, it takes around 12 hours to boot up, that’s an extremely long time, especially when I need to change configuration settings and it has to be rebooted for them to take effect.
When I first got it about 3-4 months ago it booted up [...]

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Switching Video Cards on Your Macbook Pro

January 18, 2010Matt No Comments »

If you have a unibody Macbook Pro in the 15″ or 17″ models, then you probably have two video cards. In the case of my Macbook Pro, I have an nVidia 9400m and an nVidia 9600m GT. By default the 9400m is enabled. For the most part this is perfectly fine for my usage, but [...]

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Activity Monitor System Memory Meanings

January 12, 2010Matt No Comments »

Ever wondered what all the different memory types are that are shown in the pie chart at the bottom of the system memory tab in your Mac OS X Activity Monitor? If you’re used to the memory usage information that Windows shows, then the OS X descriptions might be a bit confusing. The reason for [...]

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Get More Out of Your Apple Magic Mouse

January 9, 2010Matt No Comments »

Something else I got this Christmas is an Apple Magic Mouse. This is the latest generation of mouse from Apple, and it is an absolutely fantastic device! Just turn on Bluetooth on my Mac, turn on the mouse, tell the Mac to find Bluetooth devices, it straight away detects the mouse and pairing is just [...]

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Is Mac Really Better than Windows?

December 3, 2009Matt 2 Comments »

I was just reading a post over at the Global Thoughtz Technology blog about Brian Croll, Apple’s OS X Marketing Vice President, commenting that Windows 7 uses antiquated technology. The post itself I think is valid, Brian Croll’s comments may be fair, they may not be, but either way Windows 7 is a huge improvement [...]

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Why use iTunes for your iPod?

November 28, 2009Matt No Comments »

I know a lot of people don’t like iTunes and the restrictions on iPods and iPhones that require you to use iTunes to utilise all of their functionality, or even just to synchronise your music. That’s a fair call (and yes I know you can set it up to bypass iTunes for music but I’m [...]

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Cooler Master X Craft 250 (eSATA and USB)

November 8, 2008Matt 2 Comments »

I got the Cooler Master X Craft 250 (eSATA and USB) when I was planning the hard drive transplant for my Macbook Pro, and after my excellent experience with the Cooler Master X Craft 350 Lite, I was quite happy to get the baby brother, the 250 Lite and give it a try.
The 250 shares [...]

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Using Time Machine On my Macbook Pro

September 6, 2008Matt No Comments »

I recently set up an external hard drive to use with Time Machine on my Macbook Pro. As nice as the wireless backups of an Apple Time Capsule would be, I don’t need it and thus can’t justify spending the extra on one.
My Macbook Pro had a 120gb hard drive in it at the time [...]

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Cooler Master X Craft 350 Lite (USB)

September 6, 2008Matt 3 Comments »

The Cooler Master X Craft 350 Lite is an external USB (there is an e-SATA version as well) enclosure for 3.5″ hard drives. It has a fairly schmick design and comes with an upright stand, however, if you have more than one, they are designed to be stackable as well.
I picked one up about a [...]

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