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Welcome to summer everyone! Up here in the UP it finally is starting to feel like it. The first 2 weeks of June (and most everything before that) felt a lot like early spring with lots of rain and lots of cool temperatures, mostly mid-50’s or cooler. I’ve been rather busy the last 2 weeks, […]

To continue where my last post left off, I was most disappointed to have my main machine fail — taking 4 months of unarchived data with it! Really need to get into a regular backup scheme again. Anyway, after getting the harddrives in my windows machine replaced and installing a fresh copy of Vista 64-bit, […]

Up until recently, I ran a RAID array of 10k RPM SCSI drives in my main/gaming computer. They are fast. They are also noisy, power hungry, hot running and expensive. They are too expensive for me to buy new, so I  bought them used. All was well until about a month ago when I had […]