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Tag: hard disks

  • Dan's reformat-and-reinstall checklist

    Rebuilding a Windows box with Chocolatey

    As often happens when he moves house, Dan broke a PC. But thanks to package manager Chocolatey, he was able to get it back up-and-running in a fraction of the time he might have expected.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (887 words)

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    • 12 comments
    • posted 15 July, 2020
  • Reply to Hardware Issue - when did hard drive space get like this?

    Hardware Issue (Aquarionics) So, I am a professional system administrator. It says it on my business cards and everything. Every couple of months, when I have to explain to the receptionist at the London office that yes, I do work here, and so Nicholas Avenell (Aquarionics) wrote:
    ...

    (My first hard drive for the Amiga 600 โ€ฆ

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 7 October, 2018
  • Lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin'. I need some hot stuff baby tonight. I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'. Gotta have some hot stuff. Gotta have some love tonight.

    Cosmo - Building A Watercooled PC (Part 1)

    Mostly-irrationally, Dan decides that it's time to build a new computer, and sets out to make a souped-up, liquid-cooled monster of a machine. This is the first part of that story.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1278 words)

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 10 March, 2014
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #12:

    Download the entirety of that fantastic film, The Matrix, on to your hard drive, and watch it, wondering why your PC is running so slow until you realise that the film is occupying 1.4GB of the remaining 1.5GB of your โ€ฆ

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    • posted 8 October, 1999

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