One of the many things that have confused me for a while after switching to Windows 8 is the UI for the Bluetooth stack. The way one interacted with Bluetooth devices in previous versions was always a little haphazard. It became worse in Windows 8, because the Bluetooth Device Control dialog appears to have disappeared. [...]
Firmware udpate problems with an OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD and a Lenovo Thinkpad T430s running Windows 8
After years of disappointment with the anemic Synology RS407 NAS, I finally ran out of space and had an excuse to upgrade. I opted for a QNAP device. All reviews suggested that the low read & write performance of many NASs is due to the ARM processor, so I went with an Intel Atom model [...]
The SATA controller’s mode of operation cannot be changed to AHCI after Windows 7 is installed, because the AHCI driver will be missing and the system cannot boot. Here is how to address this without repairing or re-installing Windows. With the SATA controller still running in IDE mode, start the registry editor as administrator. To [...]
Imagine the possibilities. You can now surf the web while riding the waves in Hawaii, read your emails while taking a shower, take your iPad on long walks in the pouring New England rain, or book your next vacation online while you are in the middle of a sand storm in the Sahara desert. And [...]
My last computer, purchased in January 2006, was a barebone kit from TigerDirect based on an Asus P5NSLI motherboard and a 3GHz Pentium D dual core processor. I added 2 XFX GForce 7600 graphics accelerators with SLI. It was reasonably fast back then and still is today. I am not a notorious gamer, but knowing [...]
