Category: Computing
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Dead Hard Drive
Remember that fast, new 2.5″ 7200RPM Seagate 500GB hard drive that I installed in Mac Mini No. 3? Don’t bother, it is dead. It gave no warning (sounds, clicks, errors, etc.), but it died none the less. Just to make sure, I let Disk Warrior run for about five hours, and it too confirmed that…
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What to do with a Pentium III?
A few months ago I found another PC in the garbage. Much like Trash Server, this one was (mostly) functional. But unlike trash server, I didn’t really have a use for it. This beige mini tower sports a 733MHz Pentium III CPU, a couple smallish hard drives, and a dead CD drive. After sitting…
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Minor Updates
Not much is going on here, so I’ll share some minor and likely boring updates. I haven’t mentioned any computer issues, projects or upgrades recently. So, here is one: I swapped the 2.5″ 500GB 5400RPM hard drive in the newest of the Mac Minis for a 2.5″ 500GB 7200RPM drive. In an equally interesting news,…