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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.

The downside to installing WordPress plugins is the junk often left behind in the database when you remove them. Here’s what I came across (and removed) in mine.

A somewhat brief list of some quick-and-dirty “best” advanced settings for Handbrake, based on v0.9.3.

The northbridge on the X58 PRO-E is notorious for getting hot. I walk through the process of pulling the heatsinks and applying new paste to bring those temps down.

I look at the Sonata III with a comparison against the old piano-finish variant.

Bringing the MSI GT735 from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit.

Addressing stutter on the Mac using VLC 1.x, with a screenshot to help along the way.

A look at the DWA-160, with a deeper focus on the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz aspects.

The downside to relying on AWSTATS for statistics tracking through WHM is that if you move to a new host, it can take some manual work to get that data transferred. Here’s how I did it.

Trying to get the LaserJet 1600 working on Mac OS X isn’t a simple plug-and-play experience, though it is possible.

DarkStar One was crashing in Windows 7. The solution involves deleting and installing some new files, but isn’t too challenging.