Technology
Add a CISS to your Printer for Cheap Ink
If you are sick of spending a lot of money replacing ink cartridges, you might consider retrofitting your printer to use a CISS (Continuous Ink Supply System). Once installed, a CISS has large tanks of generic ink held outside of the printer and has supply lines feeding into a special cartridge in the printer. Your overall cost [...]
ATT U-Verse NVG589 and Amazon Fire won’t find Smartphone Remote
If you got a new Amazon Fire TV and want to use your smartphone as a remote through the Amazon Fire App, you will find that if you use the uverse router NVG589, your phone won’t find the Fire TV. Its because ATT’s router doesn’t support multicast (or UPNP or alot of other great and common wifi features). Which [...]
Asus S400ca SSD Hybrid Hard Drive Speed
My new ASUS S400CA touch laptop came with a hybrid HD that I’ve been quite impressed with. To be honest, I never thought much of the hybrid drives thinking it was more of a marketing hype. My old desktop had a full SSD drive that is a fraction of the size and probably cost just as much as this hybrid. Speed wise, I honestly [...]
Half Height Drives
This issue only comes up for a select few people that are trying to cram way too much into too small of a space. You often see what some manufacturers sell as “half-height” drives, but its not what you think. When comparing hard drives, you will find drives that are shorter than others. And since the term [...]
Dual Bay NAS Test Run
If there is one thing to learn from working in IT, it is that technology doesn’t always work the way you plan. I recently upgraded a single drive 2TB Iomega NAS (network attached storage) with a dual bay Buffalo Linkstation NAS because I was concerned about the safety of the data being stored on it. When I first started [...]
Watch out for Splunk 6 Update
To be honest, I’ve been really impressed with splunk until now. So when version 6 came out I thought it would be a home run. But then I installed it. WHAT TO EXPECT Be ready for it to reindex all of your old data, double its hard drive space usage, bring your computer to its knees in performance as it reindexes and it has [...]
HDMI to replace DVI and VGA on new devices
Today we are at a crossroads of different display connectors: VGA, DVI, M1 (DVI+USB), HDMI, and mini-HDMI. I think we can all agree that VGA is dying out and is for the most part replaced by DVI in all newer models. M1 was a horrible idea by the projector companies to sell $50 DVI to M1 adapters. It allows you to take a computer and plug [...]