Posts Tagged ‘Hardware’

Amazon Kindle DX Graphite – First Impressions

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

When you read a lot (and I think I do), sooner or later you end up having a dilemma: keep buying books and run out of physical space or get increasingly frustrated and tired with reading from the computer monitor. Luckily, (more…)

How Do We Use Our Phones?

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Recently I’ve made a very interesting observation in regards to my phone usage patterns. I actually rarely use it as a phone per se nowadays: probably 10% max. (more…)

Building a Software RAID 5 Using mdadm

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Nowadays there are lots of options if you want to give your hard drives some independency. Furthermore, for me it seems to be more of a necessity, since my server is built (like you may have previously read) around a (more…)

Trying to Live a Greener Life – Some Actual Numbers

Monday, February 7th, 2011

During the weekend I’ve finally got a chance to test some of devices in my household and see how well are they performing in terms of energy saving. I’ve used Blue Planet EM100 energy meter and tested each device in both “ON” and “STANDBY” modes. (more…)

Life with Mac – 1 Month Later

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

It’s been 1 month since I’ve got my Mac, so a little bit more about it. About the stuff that I like, for starters: I like the keyboard even though it’s completely different from Thinkpad’s, (more…)