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computer hardware

Thu 31 Jan 2008

Upgrading Mac mini

I'm very proud of myself: last night, I upgraded the hard drive and memory in my Mac mini. Seeing as how not one part of the Mac mini is "user serviceable," this meant I had to crack open the case using a putty knife, amongst other things. But everything went through nice and smoothly, and the new hard drive -- 320 GB -- has a clean install of Leopard on it.

Thu 12 Apr 2007

If only I could find my feet, I could drive

Hrm, let's ignore the fact that I neglected this blog for the entire month of March. Time for one of my marathon bi-monthly updates in which I try to bring everyone up to speed with my goings-on.

Mon 16 May 2005

The New BenClark.com

Details about the new Benclark.com:

Hardware
AMD 64 3000+ (Socket 939)
MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard
1 GB DDR400
80 GB hda
200 GB hdd

Software
Ubuntu Linux (based on Debian) -- amd64 native port
Apache2 + php4

Wed 6 Apr 2005

Linux Stuff

Software RAID versus hardware RAID -- are there any discernible differences? I can see the merits of both: hardware RAID could be much faster (in theory) since all RAID functions are performed in specialized, secondary hardware (i.e. outside of the main data processing bus). Software RAID has the flexibility of integration with logical volume management (LVM) and daemon-based monitoring . . .

Tue 20 Apr 2004

Tech goodies!

Since we're all dorks here, I'll post (briefly) about some cool new tech goodies I have because I'm excited.