Comments for Non-PC Geeks http://www.nonpcgeeks.com Calling hardware like it is... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Review: Shure SE210 headphones by Karen Owen http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/04/16/review-shure-se210-headphones/#comment-1067 Karen Owen Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:58:28 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/04/16/review-shure-se210-headphones/#comment-1067 2bv7j6wrf67mwawb 2bv7j6wrf67mwawb

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]]> Comment on When oh when will motherboard connections get standardized?!?! by Eltonpi http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/03/09/when-oh-when-will-motherboard-connections-get-standardized/#comment-619 Eltonpi Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:12:03 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/03/09/when-oh-when-will-motherboard-connections-get-standardized/#comment-619 thanks much, man thanks much, man

]]> Comment on Gaming - PCs vs Consoles by tycoon games for windows vista http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/28/gaming-pcs-vs-consoles/#comment-546 tycoon games for windows vista Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:59:36 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/28/gaming-pcs-vs-consoles/#comment-546 <strong>tycoon games for windows vista...</strong> Nice points...... tycoon games for windows vista…

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]]> Comment on Gaming - PCs vs Consoles by Bill_barrage http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/28/gaming-pcs-vs-consoles/#comment-476 Bill_barrage Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:38:54 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/28/gaming-pcs-vs-consoles/#comment-476 i think the pc maket is going down greatly because kids have no computer gaming skillz and the console is appealing to them. MORE PC GAMES!!!!! valve is doing good though... i think the pc maket is going down greatly because kids have no computer gaming skillz and the console is appealing to them. MORE PC GAMES!!!!! valve is doing good though…

]]> Comment on Review: Shure SE210 headphones by KJH http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/04/16/review-shure-se210-headphones/#comment-336 KJH Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:57:24 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/04/16/review-shure-se210-headphones/#comment-336 Mad Mike - any idea how these compare to the Shure EC3s? Also, any suggestions on getting some decent sound isolating bud-style headphones that don't fall out so easily (like when I'm at the gym moving around a lot). Thx! Mad Mike - any idea how these compare to the Shure EC3s? Also, any suggestions on getting some decent sound isolating bud-style headphones that don’t fall out so easily (like when I’m at the gym moving around a lot).
Thx!

]]> Comment on 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race Update: A Day of Surprise and Heartache by Titan http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/20/2007-round-the-world-flight-simulator-race-update-a-day-of-surprise-and-heartache/#comment-139 Titan Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:02:22 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/20/2007-round-the-world-flight-simulator-race-update-a-day-of-surprise-and-heartache/#comment-139 How exactly does this work? Does everybody just hit F4 and max out the engine for 6 hours at a time? Or is there some level of realism built into the rules such as not exceeding any operating parameter? How exactly does this work? Does everybody just hit F4 and max out the engine for 6 hours at a time? Or is there some level of realism built into the rules such as not exceeding any operating parameter?

]]> Comment on Hard drives aren’t as safe as you think! by Junior http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/03/02/hard-drives-arent-as-safe-as-you-think/#comment-45 Junior Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:46:24 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/03/02/hard-drives-arent-as-safe-as-you-think/#comment-45 The key point to protecting your data is redundancy (and I don't mean RAID!)... redundancy in the sense that you need multiple copies of your data in multiple places... some kept at home, some at the office, and some offsite somewhere else (preferably several States away). This is really the only way to approach 100% certainty that your data will survive a disaster (be it fire, flood, tornado, military invasion, or alien invasion). And if the disaster is so big that ALL of these backup sources are wiped out, well, then chances are really good that you and everyone you know are wiped out as well, and have no need for the data anymore. :) The key point to protecting your data is redundancy (and I don’t mean RAID!)… redundancy in the sense that you need multiple copies of your data in multiple places… some kept at home, some at the office, and some offsite somewhere else (preferably several States away). This is really the only way to approach 100% certainty that your data will survive a disaster (be it fire, flood, tornado, military invasion, or alien invasion). And if the disaster is so big that ALL of these backup sources are wiped out, well, then chances are really good that you and everyone you know are wiped out as well, and have no need for the data anymore. :)

]]> Comment on CompUSA closing more than 50% of their stores nationwide! by Chief Gizmateer http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/28/compusa-closing-more-than-50-of-their-stores-nationwide/#comment-44 Chief Gizmateer Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:28:42 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/28/compusa-closing-more-than-50-of-their-stores-nationwide/#comment-44 Yeah! Death to CompUSA and their MIRs and overpriced products! I must admit it does suck when you need a really hard to find computer part like... let's say... a SATA cable for instance. Asking for that at a Best Buy or Circuit City garners blanks stares, tours through the music or video section or a salesperson's head exploding. Frys needs to open near me and I'd be happy. Yeah! Death to CompUSA and their MIRs and overpriced products!

I must admit it does suck when you need a really hard to find computer part like… let’s say… a SATA cable for instance. Asking for that at a Best Buy or Circuit City garners blanks stares, tours through the music or video section or a salesperson’s head exploding.

Frys needs to open near me and I’d be happy.

]]> Comment on Hard drives aren’t as safe as you think! by Chief Gizmateer http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/03/02/hard-drives-arent-as-safe-as-you-think/#comment-43 Chief Gizmateer Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:06:35 +0000 http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/03/02/hard-drives-arent-as-safe-as-you-think/#comment-43 Having been bitten by relying on RAID setups in the past, I personally feel backups are needed as well. I've had two drives go bad in a RAID-5 setup twice in the past 3-4 years which means I lost the RAID and I've had an instance where mirroring drives resulted in corrupted data. Granted I do sysadmin stuff, but one of the RAID-5 issues happened on my personal network. So, with over 60GB of music, 60GB of video, 10GB of photos including an archive of all my parents photos and my personal documents I decided to use RAID-0 on the active data, another drive on another controller which is nightly synced with the RAID as well as an external USB drive which is nightly synced and another external USB drive (Mvix HD760) that I copy data over every so often! Overkill? Maybe, but the data is irreplaceable. I've considered a NAS as well, but would not rely on just the NAS as my only backup. Having been bitten by relying on RAID setups in the past, I personally feel backups are needed as well. I’ve had two drives go bad in a RAID-5 setup twice in the past 3-4 years which means I lost the RAID and I’ve had an instance where mirroring drives resulted in corrupted data. Granted I do sysadmin stuff, but one of the RAID-5 issues happened on my personal network.

So, with over 60GB of music, 60GB of video, 10GB of photos including an archive of all my parents photos and my personal documents I decided to use RAID-0 on the active data, another drive on another controller which is nightly synced with the RAID as well as an external USB drive which is nightly synced and another external USB drive (Mvix HD760) that I copy data over every so often! Overkill? Maybe, but the data is irreplaceable.

I’ve considered a NAS as well, but would not rely on just the NAS as my only backup.

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