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QNAP TS-410 SoHo NAS devices

casper — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:12:46 +0000

I recently had the “pleasure” to try a NAS device, more specific a QNAP TS-410, which is handy little box which takes 4 harddrives (each upto 2TB), 2 Gigabit network ports, a few USB ports, and a 2 eSATA ports.

Very neat, but it’s let down but the lack of a decent CPU (Marvell [...]

Apple Wireless Keyboard

casper — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:04:11 +0000

So I have this MacMini as a mediacenter PC, which is working and I don’t really have any problems with it, except that once in a while I want to be able to surf the web, or write an email without having to get out of the sofa.

For years I’ve used US keyboards, and [...]

To “Netbook” or not to “Netbook”

casper — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:55:45 +0000

There have been quite a buzz about the Netbook syndrome, there is Asus, MSI, Acer, Dell, and possible other brands which have come up with a notebook which is build around the Intel ATOM processor and ~1GB ram, and eiter a SSD or a harddriver. The screen is ~9 – 10″ with a resolution of [...]

MacBook to ModBook in 1 minute

casper — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:05:17 +0000

Not that I can see any reason for it, but it’s pretty cool to watch…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtLAl4H6sI

Technorati Tags: MacBook, ModBook

Apple Cinema Displays and the missing button

casper — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:21:06 +0000

So you’re asking yourself; what is he on about this time. Well if you don’t have either a Apple Cinema Display (ACD monitor) or an Apple iMac you will never understand….

Steve Jobs in his wisdom, have decided that you do not need a button to switch off the monitor… it is enough to switch [...]

New Notebook….

casper — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:04:43 +0000

After almost 3 years, I have ordered a new Notebook, my Macbook Pro (CD 2GHz) is not happy running Lightroom2, PhotoShop, Groupwise8, Groupwise Messenger, Adium, Thunderbird 3, and Firefox at the same time…. and it does not help if I switch Lightroom2 and PhotoShop with VMware Fusion…..

In about 4 weeks (I hope) I should [...]

Computer Speakers…..

casper — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:00:13 +0000

There are a few things I really do not like, some of them does not have to do with computers, and some of them does.

As a notebook use, with a frequent use of a external monitor, I’ve gotten around to live with the mess of cables on my desk, but on I cannot live [...]

Missing …..

casper — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:40:51 +0000

Most if not all of the photos in the posts are gone.. No I did not loose them, well kind of – on purpose…

After 5 years I felt that I needed some new hardware for my server, and one of the things I decided was to move all my photos to smugmug, where [...]

Linux & Asus P5QL Pro

casper — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:20:07 +0000

One of the more annoying things about new motherboards and Linux is that they sometimes does not work – that is they actually work, but then something does not work.

The most annoying thing for me is always the network card…..

In this case with the Asus P5QL Pro, the network card was not [...]

Wireless Networks (802.11n draft2)

casper — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:20:21 +0000

Wireless networks have been around for sometime, and I have had it for years as it makes it easier to take my notebook with me around the house.

I have the first generation of the Apple Macbook Pro’s which does not come with a 802.11n card, which have been annoying me for a while, so [...]