It’s been a while since I’ve ranted about something, and my experiences a couple days ago triggered this post. First, a little bit of back story. Less than 3 years ago, I built a home server that would function as a file and web test server. The storage portion required me to purchase five 1TB […]

This is going to be a rant, so be prepared. I have to start out saying that I truly do love the Android OS and I am really pleased with it in my phone and tablet. The thing is that my tablet runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, whereas my phone only runs Android 2.2. […]

I recently purchased a TF300T Android tablet from ASUS. The TF300T is a lower cost alternative to the much adorned Transformer Prime TF101. Even though the Prime is the flagship tablet from ASUS and the TF300T is technically a model with lower specs, it has a very important advantage over the Prime; it was released […]

I’ve had many people ask me over the last week how to set up a simple Windows domain with a Samba primary domain controller. This is a pretty complex topic and can get really messy really fast. This “guide” (if you can call it that) assumes that you have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on a server […]

I woke up this morning and what do you know, one of my RAID arrays in my workstation was degraded. Just great. This particular array was made up of 3x 1TB disks in RAID level 5 running on an Intel RST fakeRAID controller. After Ubuntu had some serious difficulty communicating with the drive on bootup, […]

I recently purchased an Intel SASWT4I RAID controller. First of all, it is indeed a hardware RAID solution, so it is operating system independent. This is crucial as my workstation is dual-booted with Windows and Ubuntu. I have the ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard and in the setup of the card, I had some issues. The motherboard would not […]

If you are a computer enthusiast who is in the market for a new high-performance rig, you might already know that there are absolutely no Intel i7 3930ks to be had anywhere in North America and many other places. There are many theories as to why the CPUs are not in good supply. The first bit of […]

I’m not exactly sure where to begin the review for a laptop, so I guess I’ll begin by going through the features. The Outside The K53SV series is very stylish, coming in both silver and a dark brown they call ‘mocha’ which is the one I bought. The K53SV is a 15.6″ widescreen laptop with […]

A filesystem in the most simple terms is a hierarchy of how the information is stored on computer storage media such as hard drives, SSDs and RAID arrays. Many people don’t think that filesystems pose a significant impact on the performance of a system and therefore do not think much of them. In fact, most end users […]

Just a few days ago, my Vuze installation on my Ubuntu powered server simply stopped working. It would start and almost immediately crash. In my case, the problem was caused by the Java Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) library being 64-bit, while my server OS is 32-bit. This architecture mismatch caused the crash. I have no […]