Category: 972: What The Cloud, Terminal Tidbits, Mechanical Keyboards

Okay, I know you’re probably asking, “aren’t all keyboards mechanical?” While the key mechanism in keyboards are, the “mechanical” aspect is referring to the actual switch mechanism underneath the keys. If you’re an old-school computer user like me, you may remember the old IBM Model ‘M’ keyboard which is what I learned to type on.…

**Disk Usage Command** There might be a time when you need to know how much space is available on your hard drive and you need to do it without a GUI. When trying to do diagnostics to find issues, it’s good to know if your hard drive is simply at capacity. Hard drives filled to…

My work includes quite a lot of explaining about how cloud backup can be configured and updated and how much it should be trusted, among other questions related to redundant server-based data storage. I want to make one thing crystal clear: There is nothing inherently different between the way servers operate and the way your…

There’s a lot of behind the scenes effort and training that goes into our service department. Small Dog Electronics is an authorized service provider for Apple computers, and this authorization comes with a lot of training and safety measures within our service department. Every computer that is checked into our service department goes through a…