Will we ever replace the hard drive totally?
I am wondering, if due to the popularity of the SSD solid state hard drives, are we going to see the end of the conventional hard disk with metal platters and read-write heads that skitter over the...
View ArticleDick Smith Electronics selling used hard drives as new. Ooops.
Dick Smith Electronics, a major Australian retailer have been accused of selling used and malware infected hard drives as new, endangering the computers owned by consumers. In one instance a preacher...
View ArticleThe old computers that led us into the computing revolution. The 10,000...
This is the PDP-8 computer. This beast had 4 Kilobytes of RAM and was quite the purchase back in the day. You could program in FORTRAN on this machine, entering code with a teletype input. The more...
View ArticleSSD Solid State Disks taking over from the traditional hard disk with moving...
The Solid State Drives that are now available, with no moving parts compared to a traditional hard disk are the faster alternative to the traditional hard disk drives that are taking over as very fast...
View ArticleLinux in the movies and television. Some famous appearances.
In the television series “Heroes” a KDE desktop was spotted running the Kopete application. A screenshot below. This is a Mandriva distribution displaying part of the Kmix window and a live webcam...
View ArticleKeeping your data safe by backing up your data. A good hard disk and external...
Backing up your precious data to protect your files is essential; the Seagate range of hard drives provide a reliable solution for backing up your data or a large capacity hard drive for installing...
View ArticleA new Ambiance theme for your Linux Mint MATE desktop. And other theme...
New Ambiance theme available for the Linux Mint MATE desktop. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+Crunchy?content=151181. This is a new version of the Ubuntu Ambiance theme for the Gnome...
View ArticleHard drive technology from the early days to the latest super capacity drives.
The hard disk drive has come a long way since the first one I used, a 10 megabyte capacity beast. In 1979, you would have paid US$5,350,00 for an external hard drive housing that could store 10...
View ArticleSeagate ships new 8 terabyte hard disk drive.
Seagate company have shipped a new 8 terabyte hard disk drive; this offers a lot of storage space for the price. The price is not available, but the TCO is claimed to be the lowest of any hard disk...
View ArticleWill we ever completely replace the hard drive?
I am wondering, if due to the popularity of the SSD solid state hard drives, are we going to see the end of the conventional hard disk with metal platters and read-write heads that skitter over the...
View ArticleSome very useful Powershell tricks.
Print the current date and time with Powershell. "{0:dddd - hh:mm:ss - d/M/yy}" -f (get-date) This is an example of what this will give you. PS C:\Users\jason> "{0:dddd - hh:mm:ss - d/M/yy}" -f...
View ArticleJust upgraded to a new 80 gigabyte hard drive.
Just upgraded to a new 80 gigabyte hard drive to replace my old and worn drive which was quite small and not very fast. Here is my partition layout. 2-:$> df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%...
View ArticleHow to view comprehensive information about your hard drive using Linux.
The smartctl utility for Linux is the best way to get comprehensive information about all of your hard drives in your Linux system. This can be used to get the health of your drives and see if they...
View ArticleA one-liner that will list only the mounted removable drives on your system.
This command will only list the mounted removable drives on your Linux system. The ones under /dev/sd*. This is very easy to use. 4.4 Mon Jan 13 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cat /etc/mtab | grep...
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