Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

Sprint 4g coverage available in Boston! Screw Iphone 4

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Wimax antenna

Sprint has not yet officially named Boston as one of the cities offering the 4g service but I can confirm that it is available.

I was able to pick up a 4g signal on my HTC EVO in several parts of Boston.

The only place that I was able to maintain a connection was (more…)

iPhone 4 (Pre)_Review – Is it another hot cake from Apple?

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Iphone 4

Come this 24th of June and you can have the ‘privilege ‘to set your eyes on the new iPhone 4G. The latest beauty from Apple is being called (more…)

Intel Core i7 cpu

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Intel Core i7

The Intel Core i7 CPUs are out! That’s right the new Intel Core i7, built on the new Nehalem architecture, sports some cool new features such as (more…)

Backup your Windows computer for free.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Backup Software

Backing up the data that is stored on your computer is very important for several reasons.
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How to install a router in your network: Linksys, Netgear, etc

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Linksys wrt54g wireless router

Adding a router to your network can be a good idea for several reasons.

First, it allows (more…)

Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V on Dell PowerEdge 2900

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Hyper-V

Here is what I learned during my Server 2008 with Hyper-V installation.

This is the hardware that I used:

Dell PowerEdge 2900 2 quad core Xeon Processors E5405, 2×6MB Cache, 2.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB

8GB 667MHz (4×2GB), Dual Ranked Fully Buffered DIMMs
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RIM’s Blackberry Enterprise Server service down!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

RIM's Blackberry Enterprise Server service down!

RIM’s Blackberry Enterprise Server service is down. My clients were not receiving emails on the devices. (more…)

Have your Dell PC repaired under warranty quickly (the easy way)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Dell, warranty, hardware, PC, server

In my journey as an IT professional, I’ve had to contact Dell many times for warranty replacement hardware. In my experience, it’s very time consuming to contact Dell via phone.

Here’s how I get it done quickly.
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Dell offering solid state & hybrid hard drives as an option.

Friday, August 10th, 2007

I was speccing out a new laptop model for a company and I noticed that Dell was offering a solid state hard drive as an option. The laptop that I was speccing was the Latitude D630. A solid state drive uses solid state memory to store data. A solid state drive doesn’t have moving parts like a (more…)