Category: 731: Tip of the Week: Custom Icons, Boost Your Wireless Network, Causes Of Hard Drive Failures

An article in the Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies this month offers perhaps the most in-depth study of hard drive failures to date. Google uses hundreds of thousands of hard drives to store its data, and a sample of one hundred thousand of Google’s drives was studied for five…

Many of us live and work in areas with (too) many available wireless networks, or cannot get a full strength signal from our networks for whatever reason. While AirPort reception on modern desktop and portable Macs is excellent, and getting better with each generation, sometimes we just need better reception. There are solutions that include…

iTunes 10 brings a lot of changes and innovations, some of which are understandably polarizing. Ping, the social network built into iTunes, seems to be one of the more controversial additions to the ubiquitous software installed on all of our computers. Another change is the iTunes icon itself: some love it, some find it Vista-like,…

Happy Tuesday, We’re enjoying our first real taste of autumn after a prolonged heat wave with high humidity and temperatures in the eighties and nineties. The “Green Mountain Stage Race”:http://www.gmsr.info took over much of the area over the weekend, with hundreds of cyclists zooming through the valleys and up the mountains of the area. The…