Category Archives: Geeky Computers

Cho v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc. If you bought a Seagate hard drive at retail between 3/22/01 and 9/26/07 you can go to this site to see the class action settlement against Seagate. The gist is that they advertised … Continue reading →

That’s more like it, DOCSIS 2.0 is good: The test says “Warning: ISP upload compression was detected. Your upload speeds may be inaccurate.” but I don’t know how the test is effective. ***Edit*** Looks like that test image isn’t available … Continue reading →

Well that was really odd: after replacing my cable modem (who knew that a DOCSIS 1.0 modem would be deprecated and suffer degraded performance?) I ran a few speed tests at DSL Reports and the third one (to Ontario) came … Continue reading →

It’s a good thing I didn’t pick up a new handset from Verizon yet since I just read that they should have an Android handset out in October. I don’t know what it will be (haven’t had time to research … Continue reading →

I found this article interesting reading and haven’t even touched the comments yet. It’s about how NAT really isn’t a security measure and explains why. Extra bonus: a Star Trek TOS story to open the article: How many Star Trek … Continue reading →

So my router couldn’t get an IP via DHCP from my cable modem tonight for some reason. I first go through my usual ritual of power cycling the modem, then the router (which works 50% of the time). No dice, … Continue reading →

My friend sent me this link to a Wired article about Unix epoch time about 20 minutes too late. The date/time stamp in the Unix epoch format was just 1234567890 about 20 minutes ago. There’s also a link to a … Continue reading →

I never thought I’d see the day but Newegg had a Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB internal drive (with 32MB cache no less) for only $99 last week; it’s back up to a whopping $110 now. Even after all these … Continue reading →

I guess that last test wasn’t a fluke, I got about the same again today. I’ll have to read about that Boost stat though since it was over 13Mbit/sec this time. ***Edit*** Yep, should’ve saved that image locally.

I don’t know when it happened but it looks like Cox uncorked my upload speed at some point. I used to get maybe 400k/sec or something but I just ran a test to a server about 425 miles away and … Continue reading →

I thought the upgrade would finish unattended but it did ask twice about keeping or overwriting config file so the next morning I had to tell it to keep my Samba config file. That night when I got home I … Continue reading →

I kicked off the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron upgrade on my home file/print server tonight. I should wake up to an upgraded OS, cross your fingers. Review: Why Ubuntu ‘Hardy Heron’ Wins Laurels

I just came across this article describing how to replace the hard drive storage in a Zen Micro MP3 player with a solid-state CF flash memory card. I just might have to look into that, sounds like a fun weekend … Continue reading →

Damn, I can’t believe how fast hard drive storage prices are falling. I got an e-mail from Newegg saying I could buy the Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm SATA drive with a whopping 1 terabyte of storage for $249 (with a … Continue reading →