Category Archives: Computing

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Finally Faster Internet

Posted on 7 July, 2013 by Matthias Scheler

Two years ago I complained that British Telecom haven’t upgraded the exchange that our house is connected to for over five years. Unsurprisingly BT still haven’t upgraded the exchange during the last two years. Recently however TalkTalk another major British … Continue reading →

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Upgrading the hard disk in a PS3

Posted on 10 May, 2013 by Matthias Scheler

After our old laptop died half a year ago I had an almost new 160GB Solid-State Drive going spare. And as my PlayStation 3’s 80GB hard disk was slowly filling up and more speed can never hurt I decided to … Continue reading →

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RAIDframe to the Rescue

Posted on 26 February, 2012 by Matthias Scheler

One of the hard disks in my NetBSD server developed problems … again. This time it was one of the Western Digital VelociRaptors which I use for performance reasons. The good news is that I didn’t notice for almost two … Continue reading →

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