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Hard drives do a lot for computers. They hold the operating system in which the computer needs to run the programs it stores and holds the data files for those programs to use. Data files, good ol’ data files. Lots of information can be had from such files. Sometimes it’s just where you’ve [...]
In my RL (real life,) I do IT and web work. There isn’t a week that goes by when I have a client that has a PC that will not boot up properly. Usually, this means one of four items could be defective (or a combo of them.) The four are the power [...]
One of my favorite operating systems of all time was OS/2. Man, I loved that OS! It was so rock solid that I rarely rebooted. I was using it years before Microsoft came out with its 32 bit OS, Window 95, and it would still be years later before it had a [...]
USB sticks are the rage of IT professionals everywhere and even the average
Joe can be found with them on his key ring. But most
of these sticks don’t have the capacity for some real, hardcore work. You
know, multiple OSes, Service Packs, and a half dozen
utilities to bail you out in a real emergency. [...]
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