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I am a strong proponent for buying a good power supply unit (PSU). Even if it may cost more capital outlay initially, you will save money from utility bills in the long run, especially when you are running a 24×7 sort of ...
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High-end routers have, by now, decidedly all come fitted with eight legs, erm, antennas. Joining their ranks is ASUS latest high-end router designed for extreme gaming, the ROG Rapture GT-AC5300, which was launched earlier this ...
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If you’ve been following my posts of late, you know I’m building a NAS, and after trying FreeNAS, have developed a preference for NAS4Free. I’m a bit fickle, but as one should really do, I tried both in a VM ...
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A year or two ago, wireless headphones meant having no wires connecting to your music source device, but there would still be something connecting between the left and right-side earpieces. Now, however, the era of truly ...
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It’s Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week, and as expected, new features in the next macOS update, High Sierra, were revealed. I used to get excited with macOS updates. A new version would have big, ...
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SMRT begun “signalling checks” of their brand new signally system this month, during weekdays, and including during peak hours. Not surprisingly, numerous disruptions occured, leaving commuters upset and wondering if ...
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It’s no surprise now that I’ve been looking at NAS software appliances, and perhaps leaning toward NAS4Free because of its virtualisation features. NAS4Free is based on FreeBSD, and a perennial concern I always have ...
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Lazada’s Great Singapore Sale begins next week, and as part of their GSS campaign, they are bringing back Surprise Boxes like they had for their 3rd birthday celebrations earlier this year. I have the Lazada x Sennheiser ...
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British Airways is blaming the cause of its massive IT outage last weekend on human error. A contractor at its data centre had inadvertently switched off a power supply, leading to a catastrophic IT failure that stranded some ...
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I’ve been running Btrfs on my Linux PC server for several years, but I haven’t been completely comfortable with the filesystem’s reliability, despite it now being included as options in both CentOS and Ubuntu ...