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It may as well have been a no-name PSU to be honest….

I got one of the most cost-effective 6-core setups you can put together, did some overclocking, and watched the heat.

Some versions of Windows are picky and won’t format a disk that’s already formatted differently. Here’s how you can work around it.

My failed attempts at pin modding the P5KPL-CM motherboards.

Pushing the i3 540 past 4Ghz!

Ever wonder how much juice the items in your house use? I tested a number of items and you may find the results surprising.

I wasn’t sure what hard drive would be in my Time Capsule (purchased in Canada). Pulling it apart, it turns out it’s the WD Caviar Green – not bad!

Apple’s “Magic Mouse” works fine in Mac OS X. On Windows through BootCamp though… that’s another matter.

The Government of Manitoba is getting a little more high-tech! You can now process PST payments online.

Having trouble finding the Mages Collective Cache in DA:O? I sure was.

The in-win BL-631 is a fairly small case, with a packed interior. I go over an installation and mention the quirks and qualms I ran into.

Who would have thought a motherboard wouldn’t sleep because of a default jumper setting?

I take a look at FreeNAS, with a slight focus on ZFS.

If you aren’t used to setting file permissions in your OS, FreeNAS might be your first introduction. Here’s how you set them.

A number of things in FreeNAS showed up as UNKNOWN when trying to set up ZFS partitions. Here’s how I worked around it.

A workaround when trying to install FreeNAS to a USB stick and running into the “failed to dd image” message.

Having played both, here’s a comparison in case you’re trying to decide on one or the other.

Getting the Samsung ML-1210 driver to work well with Windows 7 wasn’t straightforward. Fortunately, the trick to get it working is easy.

Solving a new issue in Joomla when migrating to a new server.

I was pondering whether to host my own DNS or go with hosted DNS, and put together some pros and cons of each.