May 2005 Blog Posts

My hard drive

Well I got everything up and running with no issues. It's a nice setup overall, though it seems like it may not be running at full speed capability. I thought perhaps my BIOS needed updating to take full advantage of USB 2.0 but Windows sees it as 2.0 so probably that's not the case. It's not that it's slow, but if I run Virtual PC off of it, startup time is slow as to be unuseable. USB 2.0 speeds are supposedly sufficient (as testified by friends) so that makes it seem like a problem on my...

posted @ Saturday, May 21, 2005 11:00 PM | Feedback (2)

New external hard drive

I decided I needed an external hard drive enclosure. Keeping files in sync between my desktop and laptop is a pain. I own Groove but I hate it (I should write a post on that at some point...). I don't know many options for easy syncing between network machines, but it shouldn't be such a pain. Regardless, it's nice to just have the files separate from the machines. I'll keep my Virtual PC images on there, my documents, and a/v work I'm in the middle of. I ordered a 200GB (or was it 250GB?)...

posted @ Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:59 PM | Feedback (4)

Google speeds up the web

I need to just add a Google category! I must admit, I'm almost always enamoured by their offerings, and generally a bit surprised as well. Tonight, an entry in their blog mentioned that they have now released the Google Web Accelerator, into their typical beta status. I went to the page and expected to be disappointed. I figured that, like the Google Toolbar, it would only be available to IE users. Since I'm mostly on Firefox now I'd be left out. How pleasantly surprised I was to see an installed for IE and Firefox!...

posted @ Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:11 PM | Feedback (3)

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