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Tune your Hard Drive

By on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 | No Comments

Wondering if your hard drive has issues or not or what temperature it’s running at? Check out HDTUNE. Its a free (yes, free) Windows utility that will go over your hard drive(s) and check for errors and give you an idea of the performance of it as well. It is a very handy program that [...]

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Netstumbler for Vista!

By on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | No Comments

Netstumbler is a great program for detecting Wireless Access Points, and more importantly, the signal strength. It’s a must-have program that every tech/nerd should have. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work in Microsoft Vista – but there is an alternative. It’s called Vistumbler. personally I haven’t tried it, but friends of mine say it looks and feels [...]

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Care when using garchiver

By on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | No Comments

Gmail’s g-archiver seems a great utility for backing up Gmail messages to your computer. But there appears to be a security flaw. From this website I read: The backstory: G-Archiver (notice I’m not linking to it), is a tool that someone wrote to be able to download all your Google Email and archive it locally. [...]

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Vista TCPIP has reached the connection limit error

By on Friday, March 14th, 2008 | No Comments

Running P2P applications in Vista and ever see this message coming up? In your event viewer, the exact wording is ‘TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts’. Microsoft has implemented a change in the TCP/IP stack since XP SP2 to limit the number of ‘half-open’ (incomplete/syn packets) [...]

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Maxtor Hard Drive Jumper settings

By on Sunday, March 9th, 2008 | No Comments

I hate having to pull a hard drive out of a case to check what the jumper settings are for Master, Slave etc. Not knowing the exact model of this Maxtor one I came across today, I though I’d ask my friend Google. I found a page with most (if not all) of the Maxtor [...]

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