Hyperserver

Recently starting on building a Hyperserver for TROI. In a nutshell its a webserver with heavy hardware, multiple processors (8 to be precise) and ridiculous amounts of ram (16gb) and storage (8tb). The storage is setup as RAID. So we can use 4TB for the servers and 4TB is a mirror. This way if a [...]

New phone

got it today after 2 weeks of waiting. the samsung jet 8000. some cool features that i like most:
can hook it up to my laptop so my laptop has mobile internet everywhere
can turn it sideways, this makes the usual numeric input turn into a qwerty keyboard.
i have a cable that joins it to my laptop [...]

New laptop

ok not entirely true, iv had it for a few weeks but i been busy

its a toshiba m750 tablet laptop and is really epically cool! touch screen, that already did it for me, but also dual core 2.4ghz, 3gb ram, fast, sexy and powerfull. its just a little thick but i can live [...]

Mobile Dev compy

I'm working on a plan for a mobile developer laptop. Key features will be good battery life and smal/lightweight. Powerful is of course also important but the mobile factor still comes first. I'm looking for something i can program on when traveling/holidays etc.

Had a look at several brands but kept coming back to the ASUS [...]

Projector

Woot! finally got my projector!! :D

damn epic it is. i know have a "screen" of 210cm by 135cm :D

watched "the day the earth stood still" yesterday, and after that played xbox360, the new star wars game (not that new, but its the last one that was out). wicked playing games on [...]

Broken laptop but no guarantee?

A friend of mind has a laptop of which the screen is broke. So she sent it back to HP to be fixed. Like most of these large companies they wormed themselves out of the guarentee with technicalities and quoted her 444 euros to fix it.

Anyhoo i scoured the net and came across www.replacedirect.com. Gave [...]