July 5, 2009
Hard drives. From my first exciting 20MB drive to the monster 1TB beast now keeping my backups. And where you have drives you surely have drive enclosures. Here I'll be looking at the shiny silver and white Icy Dock MB662 RAID enclosure.
The MB662 is not a complicated NAS storage system. It has no web server, no iTunes software, no ethernet port or media server. It does however have a couple of flashing blue lights and this list of features:
- Supports 2x3.5" SATA I/II drives
- Up to 4TB capacity
- USB 2.0 + eSATA (Silicon Image 5744 chipset)
- Hardware RAID with six settings
- No software required
- Screwless design
- 40mm adjustable speed fan
- Hot swappable
- Compatible with Windows and Mac
- Supplied with USB and eSATA cables
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August 22, 2007
I'll admit a certain liking towards end-of-the-world movies. For me there's something irresistible in seeing what happens when everything goes wrong and Bruce Willis doesn't manage to save the day. It was with delight that I watched 28 Days Later, a 2002 movie by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland about a horrible blood-spitting disease that strikes Britain. Maybe it was the bleak London vistas, maybe it was the unrelenting music and in-your-face video, or maybe it was just the fact that it was a great budget movie that packed a big punch.
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April 27, 2007
Most of us have a good selection of electronic gadgets gracing our home. TVs, DVD players, TIVOs, home theatre systems, the list goes on. Almost all of these will have an individual remote control requiring not only a home (just where did you put that remote?), but batteries and in many situations the ability to navigate a particular action (such as watching a DVD) across multiple controls.
With this in mind I set about reviewing the Logitech Harmony 555 Universal Remote Control.
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August 23, 2005
The other week I managed to watch a pretty bad series of horror stories, all wrapped together in a film called The Necronomicon. I knew it was going to be a bad movie even before it started, but I was still looking forward to it because it’s based upon the stories of H.P. Lovecraft.
For those unfamiliar with this author, he was a reclusive American writer who wrote in the mid-1920's. His specialty was horror writing, but a horror unlike almost everything else in the genre. If you have any familiarity with Edgar-Allen Poe then you'll know the style. We're talking dark brooding horror, focusing on insanity and the human mind. Lovecraft managed to create his own shadow world which looked like ours, but contained unimaginable evils waiting to break free.
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August 2, 2005
I've been churning through a lot of books recently and so I thought I'd talk about some here.
First up is Dr. Zhivago. I'll admit a distinct liking for Russian literature, ever since Crime & Punishment blew me away. The country is so big and has so much history. I just wish I could explore it all. As I do not possess an unlimited budget I have to make do with whatever books I can get my hands on, and this was provided by Boris Pasternak.
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