In most businesses you don’t need to be running the latest and greatest technology. Indeed that can become extremely costly. Especially if your a startup organisation. I have a desktop PC that last year had a new graphics card and before that some RAM. There becomes a time though when the investment should be halted [...]
I’ve used and managed servers for many years from server rooms filled full of unix systems to smaller installs with NT4, 2000 servers and recently linux distro’s….. so what made me consider a cheap NAS (network attached storage) box, instead of a larger system and what was my experience? In this case the nas box was a 35-HD-Dualide-Nas [...]
The adsl router that I’ve been using for years has run into trouble and needed replacing. So what did I replace it with? Well I have a spare adsl router, but unfortunately that only has one network port and doesn’t support wifi. However I also had an old bricked (unable to use) WRT54G spare…..
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Graphics cards have hugely come down in price and are a good upgrade to consider if required. So I brought a new agp graphics card for my desktop computer via ebay. I know agp is old tech now, but it is the last planned upgrade for the computer and gives it a nice bit of [...]