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repairing a hard drive (the old school way)

“Frank” is back up and running following what looked like the opening credit sequence for The Six Million Dollar Man. Computer parts, tools, and screws were everywhere. But in the end, we had the technology. We rebuilt him, we made him stronger. Now with a larger primary hard drive and more memory, “Frank” is stronger...

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R.I.P. Frank

Last night, Frank (aka Frankenstein, aka my computer) came down with a nasty virus. I rushed him in this morning and opened him up for surgery, but alas it was too late.
Currently, I have a new hard drive being formatted and reloaded, and tonight will be doing the file transplant from Frank’s old brain to...

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Skull logo option available for Alienware Area-51 m15x: Alienware still sucks

From Engadget:
Judging by the multitude of problems experienced by Area-51 m15x owners, we can’t say we’d recommend said laptop without reservations, but those dead set on picking one up now have yet another design option to choose from.
Personally, after the horror-filled experiences we have had with the mobile system paperweight that we purchased 18 months...

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Alienware: The best darn $2,500 paperweight we ever bought!

The ongoing saga with the Alienware m5750 mobile system, which started over a year ago, that we purchased for my wife continues. It has never functioned properly, we received the run-around from technical support so much that at one point I actually blew up at one of the techs and demanded to speak to their...

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