Welcome back to the D Revolution blog after a Christmas hiatus. Sorry for the nerdy nature of the post – it’s often the underlying technology that propels computing forward. Ten’s Compliment have a File System plugin for Mac OS X that allows the use of ZFS instead of the standard ... Read more
After jumping the gun in late June with a Lion compatible firmware (which was later withdrawn) Netgear have a new Lion compatible firmware. I will be testing it soon – contact us if you have a ReadyNAS and need Lion workstations to connect… Older ReadyNAS users with NV, NV+ and ... Read more
The high cost of out of warranty repairs Should you buy AppleCare? In years gone by, the answer was a resounding NO! It was always pushed heavily by resellers as it increased their “attach rate”. A higher attach rate meant a cheaper buy price for the reseller. Previously, I was ... Read more
What would happen if you lost all your data? Recently, a client called me in because their computer was running slow. Ended up that their hard disk was failing with bad blocks – parts of the disk that become unreadable. The disk was becoming more unusable by the minute, so ... Read more
This week I attended the CeBIT consumer electronics show at Darling Harbour. Whilst there was the usual array of bizarre stuff ranging from bad breath detectors to cable TV systems for companies like Foxtel, there were a few gems to be found. Storage ReadyNAS NV – this is well equipped ... Read more
There has been a fairly constant stream of bad press stating how un-secure the Macintosh platform has become and how the move to Intel processors will increase the risk. It is refreshing to read an article not regurgitated from a security software vendor trying to sell their wares. Please read ... Read more
Apple announced the beta release of Boot Camp – software that will ship with Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (aka. Leopard) that allows new macs to start up in either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Due to the intel chips used in the machines, this is not emulation like ... Read more
Last week, Apple unveiled the first machines to run on Intel CPU’s. This is the start of a 1 year transition away from PowerPC based RISC CPU’s to Intel X86 based CISC CPU’s. Whilst RISC technology has the advantage of efficiency of code and execution – meaning more code is ... Read more
