Thursday, 29 November 2012

0 RAID 5 Data Recovery

Hello everyone! After a long break, today's topic is RAID 5 data recovery! First things first, let's start off with what RAID is. RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a storage system where more than one disk is used. The data is distributed into those disks to prevent data loss in a case where one or more disks malfunction depending on which RAID level is used. There are different RAID levels from RAID 0 to RAID 6 (and RAID 10), each with different attributes. Today, I will be specifically talking about RAID 5 since it's the most popularly used, (although being replaced slowly by RAID 6) and the safest RAID level. Image from Wikipedia. Link First...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

0 Making A Multiboot USB Stick

Hello everyone, today's topic is making a multiboot USB stick! I must say having a multiboot USB stick saved me a lot of time when I got in trouble with my current Windows installation. You can add many things to your multiboot USB stick such as a linux distro, a partition manager, MSDaRT, (this one saved my Windows so many times) hard drive utilities, rescue disks and so on depending on what you need. Creating one is rather simple, and you're going to need the two programs above. 1) RMPrepUSB 2) SARDU RMPrepUSB is the piece of software which prepares your USB Drive to be bootable, and SARDU adds the ISO files which contains the things you...

Thursday, 15 November 2012

0 Cloud Computing

I'm sure many of you heard the term cloud computing a lot of times lately. Cloud computing is getting more popular every day and it's slowly taking over physical computing.. But what is cloud computing? That's probably the question all of you are asking if you're reading this right now. Cloud computing, in most basic definition, is the usage of computer resources over a network, which includes internet. The computer resources could be anything depending on the type of the cloud computing, as there are many types of it. Image from Wikipedia, created by Sam Johnston. The most basic type of cloud computing is infrastructure as a service (IaaS)....

Saturday, 10 November 2012

0 Small But Powerful Software

Hello there! Today, instead of talking about a single thing, I decided to make a small compilation of software which I think would be really handy to have installed. You can pick whichever you want from the list and try it out to your likings. You might or might not have heard of these software, but I'm sure you wont leave them out of your toolkit once you got them. Our first software is TeraCopy. TeraCopy is a file copying software which replaces the usual Windows one. I don't know if it ever occured to you, but most of the times when you copy high amounts of files, or large files, the copying process either freezes or goes really slow....

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

0 Spotify - Music anywhere

Spotify is a music streaming software which is a must have for any music fan. (at least in my opinion!) With Spotify, you have access to millions of songs anytime you want, (provided you have an internet connection) without downloading them. There are many great features about Spotify, but let's look at the subscription plans since the features change depending on which one you have. Spotify Free - You have access to the songs, but you can listen to a song only five times until it gets disabled. You will also have ads inbetween some songs. Spotify Unlimited - The ads will be gone, and the five time limit will be lifted compared to Spotify...

Saturday, 3 November 2012

0 Dummy File Creator

Hello everyone! I wasn't planning on writing something today, but I felt the need to share a really interesting software which I've just stumbled upon a few hours ago. There's not much to say about it, as you will notice that it's a pretty simple software to use. This one is called Dummy File Creator. You can download this software here in its official page. As it is obvious from the name, this software creates dummy files, which basically aren't anything, but just things which take up space. All you need to do is fill the size box, and the software will create you dummy file(s) of that size. I'm sure everyone has the same question...
 

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