Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
The following photo set shows the progress of the rack rebuild that I performed yesterday. It starts with the old rack setup and then progresses through each level of the build: It was good fun putting all the new equipment into the rack, but it is very time consuming especially when everything needs to be [...]
Tonight I performed a tower-to-rack conversion of the Naiman Clarke primary server, a new Dell Poweredge 2900. You may ask why we didn’t just get the rack mountable 2950 version to start with? Well that IS what we ordered, however Dell got a little confused along the way. Anyway they made it up to us [...]
The Zalman VF700 is a flower style copper heat sink and fan that can be installed on a variety of graphics cards, including the Nvidia Geforce 6600GT (both AGP and PCI Express). My version is a Gainward 6600GT AGP 128MB Golden Sample. One major problem with the AGP installation however is that the PCI Express [...]
Intel, Motorola, HP and NEC are embracing the upsurge in wireless hotspots in an effort to take mobiles into the land of wireless broadband. Intel today announced they are developing a single chip solution that will allow mobile phone users to seamlessly switch between mobile and Wi-fi base stations as they talk. Voice over IP [...]
Well it has been a while since i have done any updates! I have been busy working at Windeyer Dibbs Solicitors . I designed that web site and also did all the setup for the web and DNS servers. (If you don’t believe me check the web server version …:-) ). The next thing that [...]