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PC World’s 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time!

June 9th, 2006 · Comments Off

Howdy one and all and welcome back to another exciting edition of The Weekly Geek!
This week I had the privilege of reading the almost perfect article, PC World’s The 25 Worst Tech Products of all Time. Well, I couldn’t agree more especially with…
1. AOL (Or in real terms AO Hell) – I was an original [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Hardware · Internet · Malware · Soap Box

Backing up your data

January 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

Greetings one and all and welcome back to another exciting adventure with The Weekly Geek!
In this brief article we will go over the ever important and whimsical idea of backing up your data.
Since, I have worked both for businesses and in the private sector as a hired gun, I know how many of you don’t [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Hardware · Security · Software

Virtual Memory Part 4

October 21st, 2005 · Comments Off

Well, a great big howdy to one and all. Welcome back to another exciting adventure of The Weekly Geek!
In our last episode we helped the dynamic duo escape the evil clutches of the Joker by using their Bat Computer and setting up proper Virtual Memory (VM) settings for Windows XP. Unfortunately in this week’s episode [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Speeding Up

Virtual Memory Part 3

October 7th, 2005 · Comments Off

Howdy and welcome back to this weeks exciting adventure with The Weekly Geek!
Last week we left Batman and Robin in the clutches of the Joker. They were suspended by a piece of cotton candy over a boiling vat of play-dough, oh what ever will become of our heroes? Ok, so maybe we were covering Virtual [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Speeding Up

Virtual Memory Part 2

September 23rd, 2005 · Comments Off

Howdy and welcome back to another exciting and fun filled adventure of The Weekly Geek!
In this exciting and fun filled article, we will continue to explore the fields of Virtual Memory (VM). For an introduction to VM check out Part 1, otherwise just follow the not so yellow brick road.
In the shortest description I know [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Optimizing · Speeding Up