Month: October 2012
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DNS troubles with Ubuntu Server 12.04
Some customers have been having DNS issues after setting a static IP on Ubuntu 12.04.1 where the server is no longer picking up the DNS settings as it was before; this can be easily fixed by adding the following to /etc/network/interfaces after the eth0 entry: dns-nameservers [ip.of.your.router] e.g., for a modem/router that’s 10.1.1.1…
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Intel X520-T2 Visual Overview
There’s not a great deal to say about these cards apart from that they allow you some crazy network speeds, if you have the disk speed to keep up. They can certainly alleviate network bottlenecks if gigabit is holding you back! This particular card has a fan to keep the chipset cool; it’s not going…
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Silverstone FT-03 Mini Overview or Mini Review
With the massive increase in how useful mini-ITX boards are has come a corresponding increase in chassis to fit them, all of which are challenged by dissipating a full-sized-desktop CPU worth of heat in a small space. Add in a GPU and other components and you have quite a difficult proposition – getting the right…
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Customer Build: Marguerite
This customer wanted a small, quiet workstation with good single-threaded performance in an interesting/different case; the end result was: Silverstone’s FT-03 Mini chassis is a well thought-out, elegant little case which feels top-notch in terms of build quality – thanks in no small part to the extremely thick aluminium sides; The…
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New MFC in-house: Brother MFC-J825DW
Our Canon MFC kicked the bucket recently and we’ve chosen to go with a Brother replacement this time around; it’s hopefully going to be around for a while so if you have any questions about it, drop us a line. Depending on how it fares we may do a write-up of it down the track…
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New Product: LED Bulbs!
Are you interested in saving money on your electricity bill? LED bulbs use around 20% of the power of a regular halogen bulb, while producing an equal or greater amount of light. Considering that room lighting is one of the hardest things to cut back on, this is a great way of saving money each…
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Ubuntu: How to view results of “ls” one page at a time
If you’re listing the contents of a directory using the “ls -l” command in a terminal window you may find that the number of results cause pages of text to fly past your screen, leaving you with only the last page to look at. If you aren’t using a terminal which you can scroll back…
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Fractal Design Define R4 Review – Part Two
As promised, here’s part two of our review! We’re building one of our standard test systems using this chassis and the following components: Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard Intel i7-3770K CPU @ 4.5GHz 8GB G-skill Ares 2133MHz RAM (2x4GB) Corsair H100 self-contained liquid cooling Crucial M4 SSDs Seasonic X-560 PSU AMD HD6450 Click through…