Nov 8, 2008
Yeay! The three boxes of stuff that I sent home has finally arrived today. It took a little more than 2 months but all three boxes have arrived safely intact. I am a little excited that my stuff is all back, including my collection of hundreds of original DVDs. However, I am kind of in a bind now because I do not really have any place to store ...
Oct 29, 2008
I know that most of my readers are not technically inclined. So, I will try to explain things as simple as I can. I have just built a Home Theatre PC (HTPC) prototype at home. My purpose for doing so is to get some performance numbers so that I will know what resources I'll need to design and build my final HTPC.
The prototype HTPC is using a small ...
Jul 8, 2008
I've always wanted to write about this as I've noticed that few people have encountered the phenomenon before. The topic has to do with the choice of archival media for long term storage. With the amounts of data that we generate today, whether it be videos, images or text, we need some form of method to store the data safely. This applies as much to research and work ...
May 2, 2008
In light of recent developments in Malaysia, with the computers of certain prominent anti-establishment bloggers, consistently being confiscated for dubious investigative purposes, I thought that it might be a suitable time to write a little about information security. The whole idea behind information security isn't to foil justice, but to make sure that the rights of people are not infringed.
With harddisk sizes going into the Terabyte range, ...