Using Amazon S3 to back up or store your files

Written by: Nelson In: How-To, Random On: June 18th, 2008

how much would you pay if you had to buy back what’s on your computer hard drive when the computer crashes? if you keep 20 GB of music and other things like memorable pictures, or videos of your already grown up children etc. probably you will be willing to shell out a few hundred bucks, [...]

CRT Monitors are things of the past-donate them to a museum

Written by: Nelson In: Random On: June 16th, 2008

What will you do with that big monster CRT monitor seating at your desk when you finally get it of it? if you are like most of us, it probably will end up at the sidewalk or the trash dumpster hoping someone will pick it up or the trash truck will demolish it to bring [...]

Building a computer from scratch or buying refurbished, what is better?

Written by: Nelson In: Random On: June 11th, 2008

My friend and I are weighting the options of building a computer from scratch, or buying a refurbished one. this week we paid a visit to Microcenter-one of the biggest computer stores here in Boston to have an idea of what were our best options. these computers are not for us, they are for people [...]

The file amdide.sys could not be found error

Written by: Nelson In: Random On: June 9th, 2008

Today I was installing Windows server 2003 SP1 on one of our retired PowerEdge 2550 Dell servers to test our new intranet site, and for some reason I was getting the error: The file amdide.sys could not be found after failing to install the server a couple of times I realized I was going nowhere, [...]

Why computer repair services like geek squad suck

Written by: Nelson In: Random On: June 8th, 2008

How many times have you brought your computer with a minor problem to a computer repair service like best buy geek squad, and your computer has been diagnosed with all kinds of problems by one of their so called geek? I bet you have. the problem with your computer might be as easy as [...]

Using External DNS for your Internet connection

Written by: Nelson In: Random On: June 6th, 2008

Aseem Kishore recently posted an interesting post on his blog about using free external DNS servers to speed up your Internet connection. read more about Aseem post Open DNS free DNS.
I think DNS affect Internet users in many ways, if your Internet access is slower than you think it should be then check the [...]