For many years, the role of a backplane was primarily in the server environment.  With home computing and server environments becoming intertwined the roles of devices like this are becoming skewed.  Backplanes are no longer just for SCA SCSI devices and are now being found more and more in other arenas as SCSI is no longer the king. SATA/SAS has taken the performance per dollar championship.  iStarUSA thinks they might have the answer to the industry’s needs with the BPU-340SAS RAID Cage. Continue reading »

Most of us have heard about Comcast’s new bandwidth restrictions.  Comcast has set a hard limit, finally, to their bandwidth usage for customers at a static 250GB per month.  These are limits that were previously not in place and there is an easy way to keep an eye on your usage. Continue reading »

After all this time, I have accumulated quite a bit of hardware and I figured, the best way to get rid of it is to give it to our forum members.  This is how this is going to work; all you have to do is be registered in our forums and have a minimum of 5 posts.  Each giveaway item will be detailed in its own thread and to become eligible for the prize you have to post in that thread.  The winner will be picked then published in the thread.  The only thing I can’t do is cover the cost of shipping for some of the items… so if you win, and you want it, just cover the cost of shipping and it is yours. (Continental US residents only… sorry, but I can’t afford the shipping outside the country) Continue reading »

Many XP users have been blaming Service Pack 3 for breaking remote desktop connections to their machines.  I, for one, have been unable to RDC into my Windows XP machine since the upgrade to Service Pack 3 as well.  However, the issue isn’t with Service Pack 3 at all! Nvidia is at fault!

I spent days (counted the hours) trying to figure out what changed in Service Pack 3 that would break Remote Desktop.  Visiting the Microsoft site and learning about the new security measures and how to enable the Credential Security Service Provider yielded no results. Continue reading »