Dan's Data

I've finally taken the plunge into putting (a few) ads in my RSS feed, which means this old one (which is requested about two-thirds of a million times a month - hence my interest in ads!) won't be...

The mysteries of System Builder licenses, the Vista Update of Doom for certain Asus motherboards, and multi-booting 32-bit XP and 64-bit Vista.

Readers of my blog will already know that I've found a cheap and solid external SATA drive enclosure that supports spin-down. This is such a remarkable occurrence, by the standards of my sadly shel...

For many people, disk compression is just a bad memory. But the built-in Windows version can, sometimes, be surprisingly useful.

Memory access patterns, de-gooping a CPU, measuring the thickness of one's pipe, and mysterious LCD resolutions.

So's your mobile phone. And the phone's probably lying TWICE.

Yet another plug-in "power saver", magic spark plugs, the anatomy of a "data entry" scam, and hydrogen-power claims examined.

In the red corner, two suspiciously cheap new ATIs. In the blue corner, two giant Nvidias...

The purpose of the page file, two very hot computers, and running engines from your CPU heat.

Take all of your most valuable data, and send it to some company thousands of miles away for safe keeping. What could possibly go wrong?