My Computer Origin Story
I recently went to the 2nd annual Southern California Vintage Computer Festival and boy did a tidal wave of old memories come rushing at me. As I walked the aisles on the exhibit floor I was bombarded by computing history…
Computer Hardware
How to Optimize Your Workspace with an Ultrawide Monitor and Multi-System keyboard and Mouse
Summary: this article explains how I connect a PC and Macbook to a single Ultrawide monitor and seamlessly switch between both systems with a single mouse and keyboard. A video demo is available below as well. UPDATE 3/25/26: I’ve switched…
Unboxing My Acer Aspire Revo. A Great HTPC for XBMC and Boxee
Today I received my Acer Aspire Revo which I ordered refurbished from PC Connection Express for $159 which I heard about from TechBargains.com Unfortunately the deal appears to be gone but they can still be had for $199 new at…
My New ATI Sapphire 5770 Video Card and Other System Upgrades
I recently began planning for my upgrade to Windows 7. I usually buy a new system whenever upgrading my OS,  however I did research on new systems and didn’t see the cost benefit of doing this even after having owned…
My New Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Based Computer
I recently decided it was time to upgrade to a new computer so I thought I’d provide some details. I’m quite the technology fanatic and that holds true with computers. I hadn’t had much of a reason to upgrade my…
My Memory Upgrade – Just Because it was too Cheap not to
I’m running a Dell 8400 3.2GHz system with 1Gb of RAM and didn’t have a real need for more memory until recently. I’ve been contemplating getting VMWare up and running to play with Vista and Linux in an isolated environment.…
My Experience Building a Raid 5 Server
I recently built my first RAID server. I’ve been the victim of 2 hard drive crashes where I lost data. I have a large media collection that includes tons of digital pictures, family videos of over 30 DV tapes I’ve…
My adventure in considering to upgrade to a gigabit switch
So I recently built a RAID 5 system to be used primarily as a media file server. I transfer large home video files over my network to this machine on a continual basis. Since both my server and personal machine…