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Why aren’t we seeing hybrid hard drives?

I’ve been seriously considering replacing my MacBook’s regular spinning hard drive with a fancy new SSD drive, then sticking an external case to the old 320 GB hard drive and using it as external storage. I can get away with just 32 GB on the SSD drive, more than enough for the OS and all my apps, and I would put all the other space-taking media on the spinning drive. Not a bad idea, seeing as I travel a lot with my laptop, but why isn’t the whole concept of having two drives in computers now a days, a spinning and a solid-state drive, a standard? Perhaps a hybrid SSD/Spinning drive would fit the bill. (more…)

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Redesign Explained

As you can see if you are an old blog visitor, I’ve changed the appearance of things around here. This time, I didn’t create my own theme, I went the classic “buy a premium theme” route, and I’m quite happy with the results. My past experience with my creating my last two themes was very helpful; I learned a lot about the inner workings of WordPress, even though I didn’t create the theme completely from scratch, I went the Sandbox route (who starts any coding project now a days with out some sort of recycled code, anyway?).

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Imminent Redesign

I am currently redesigning this site. Please hold on to your hats.

p.s. I’m abrutly changing the unfinished theme to force myself to do it quick.

UPDATE: Didn’t feel like redesigning (css tinkering etc) so I just grabbed a quick WP theme, changed it around a bit and voila!

Keep avoiding AVG 8 at all costs!

I’d like to revisit my original post, which became quite popular and even got comments from the people Grisoft. I was also contacted via email by these individuals who offered support and even gave me a 3-month trial for the network I was having problems with originally. So lets fast forward about 4 months, and what do we have now? A very unstable application that still crashes workstations and servers. I removed AVG from the network I had it on (about 15 workstations and 2 servers) and installed Avast!. No more issues since. No more random reboots and crashes, which are absolutely unacceptable in a production environment. (more…)