Today I am just going to blog abit on just randomness that has been running through my mind this morning. No tips, no tricks, no mods... Just random noise
I have been having a running conversation with Dan about software, antivirals, antimalware and OS's.. Standard Compugeek chatter. I noticed a thread through or convos.. Bloatware
Bloatware is a term used to describe an application that uses a disapproportionate share of your computer's resources, be it RAM, HDD space or CPU cycles. We have a…
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Added by Mystic Virgo on November 18, 2009 at 6:47am —
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I've had a spare 2.5" hard drive laying around for a while and I've been wondering what to do with it. It's a 200GB Sata 5200rpm drive; Big enough to be useful, but what for?
Then someone gave me the Idea of putting it into a USB Caddy so I can carry it around with me. Now I already have one of these; a WD 500GB Passport, but you can't ever have too much space!
So I went ahead and ordered on
NexStar CX, made b…
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Added by David Myers on October 29, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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Hey Guys, i need your advice for a mediocre tech geek who's looking to buy a fast and affordable laptop. Any suggestions? Right now, I'm looking at a Sony Vaio CS VGN390. What are your thoughts on Sony Vaio's? I was intending on buying an SSD for my laptop but i don't know if i can add it to my lapop and still keep my HDD. Plus, i don't know how to. And i might get an SSD for my desktop too and i have a lot of files on my HDD already and i was wondering if Adding an SSD would alter my HDD in any…
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Added by Philip Do on July 10, 2009 at 4:59am —
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The only reason I pose this question is SSD's are an emerging technology, and I belive they will be standard in about 5-10 years. For those of you that don't know what a SSD is, I will tell you. SSD stands for Solid State Disk. Solid state means that there are no moving parts, like in a tradtional HDD. This means that files don't fragment the HDD. Fragging/Defragging is sort of difficult to explain, so I'll put it this way. Think of your HDD as a dictonary, and when you save a file to the HDD, i…
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Added by medinamatt on May 29, 2009 at 3:33pm —
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Yesterday, 5/24/09, was possibly my best day of 2009 yet. As it's may, the school year is winding down, with about a few weeks left until school is over. My older sister is graduating high school, and going to Shippensburg University with an undeclared major. If you are a follower of mine on twitter (@matthewmedina25) you more than likely read that I was going to Target to get my brother an SD card for his camera. We got that, and after waiting an hour for some photo's to develop, my mom asked m…
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Added by medinamatt on May 25, 2009 at 10:19am —
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Ok so first I would like to talk about my last months inactivity which will also be the dark side of this post. You can't even imagine how many things have gone, so let's get started. First of all my blog's hosting account got hacked by a turkish hacker, that's just what I've needed, getting hacked. I don't understand these popeple(who hack websites) some work hard to get their blog/whatever site or business are running and some guy/gal jumps on his/her chair and starts hacking but the worst par…
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Added by Agent Popescu on May 22, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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First off, I want to say HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all you moms and moms-to-be. I helped my mom in the garden with my friend Cale, who brought over his laptop. We then decided to get on it b/c i told him of dual monitors and he wanted to try it out. Well, needless to say, his laptop was slow as heck.
Here are some specs:
Pentium M 1.6 GHz
512 MB RAM
50 GB HDD
XP media center edition sp2
He told me it has been slow for a while. He proceeded to play on my desktop with Windows 7 while i went to fix…
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Added by medinamatt on May 10, 2009 at 7:08pm —
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After buying a new Maxtor 500GB hard drive for my Mac Pro, it reminded me of all the little things that we can do to keep the drive spinning, reading, and writing as long as it can. This applies to- not only the Mac Pro- but even your MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini, and so on. PC users can also benefit!
Keep her spinning:
Many people believe that hard drives that are continuously spinning will wear down over time. And while this is true in a sense, it's not quite as wearing as the latter. Havin…
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Added by pwn247 on February 16, 2009 at 5:34am —
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Added by Xuntra on February 6, 2009 at 4:32pm —
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It's a 5 MB Hard Disk!!
The Volume and Size of 5 MB memory storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM
launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The
HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data. Now you can start
appreciating your 16 GB flash drive!
Snopes.com: Computer Storage (1956):
http:…
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Added by Ninesvnsicks on January 12, 2009 at 2:21pm —
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Your all pumped up to play some Call of Duty after a hard days work, and you go to turn on your computer and you get a black screen. Your monitor won't display an image and you can't get into your BIOS. How to you determine which part of your computer has failed? To be able to determine the solution, you first have to understand the problem. For example, a blank image doesn't mean that there is something wrong with your computer, you could be having monitor issues. The process of elimination is…
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Added by Andrew on December 29, 2008 at 7:30pm —
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About a year ago myself an my mum (mom to my American brethren) chipped together and bought a 500gb external HDD so that my Desktop PC (running Windows at the time) could encompass the enormity of our combined iTunes. As you can see from my specs, both machines I own have puny HDDs, so to store the many films/tv shows we converted from dvd, and my 20 gigabytes of nasty heavy metal music (as well as my mum's rather pathetic 5 gigabytes of pop/rock) an external drive of immense capacity was requir…
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Added by Marshall on October 21, 2008 at 10:54am —
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Delete Discussion So the other week my CD/DVD drive just Cut out the drive still opened and closed but for some reason it wasnt being reconised so i rebooted to see if that would fix it but this Just caused the PC to Hang on the xp Boot Logo the thing kept scrolling but nothing happened so i pressed restart and it offed me safe mode and the same this just hung too, so i dissconnected the Drive restarted and it all worked Fine.
At the…
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Added by Stuzilla on October 13, 2008 at 2:46pm —
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Now, this is prertty much obvious to many people, and if you’re reading this blog it is probably obvious to you as well, but I’m sure many people also know that they have friends who will incorrectly refer to their computer’s hard disk space. A common example…
Friend: “My computer isn’t fast enough, how do I make it faster?”
Me: “How much memory do you have?”
Friend: “250 g bytes”
Me: “What?”
Friend: “My computer came with 250GB”
Me: “No, not your hard drive space, your RAM.”
Friend: “My What?”…
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Added by Justin on September 6, 2008 at 7:00pm —
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Rambling on... Bloatware
NexStar CX HDD Caddy
Laptop Help
Defrag Programs. Useful Now, But For How Long?
Good things and bad things started to happen to me lately(mostly pc related)
Increase the Life of your Mac Hard Drive
Imperial March... played on a harddrive.
Can You Guess What This Is?
Troubleshooting Hardware Failures
I really rather dislike either G4 processors, or USB.
CD Drive issues Help?
Yes, There is a difference between Memory and Hard Disk space...
