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I got this 240 GB Dell branded, Micron manufactured SSD for free. It's some Enterprise class drive out of a server. If I put it in a USB dock, it works fine. But if I put it in a Mac Book Pro, the computer won't see it. I tried two different machines. To be more specific, it's not just that...

I've had this great 8-bay USB3 MediaSonic enclosure connected to my home server for the past 6.5 years. It's been really good. I bought it without drives for $270 new. I loaded up the drives I had and over the years, I modified it as needed. Tonight, it started freaking out. Drives come and go...

I've got a Mac web server that's been getting hit pretty regularly with `SYN` half-open attacks. I've looked in to various ways to combat this. I've found a lot of general information, but not very much specific information. The "easiest" approach seems to be tweaking tcp settings in...

I do CD ripping as a side biz. I use a Mac Pro as the computer, and I have a very custom built tower that holds 7 SATA optical drives, connected via USB2 to a USB2 hub, which then connects to the Mac. It worked well enough over the years but it's time to upgrade to a better setup. I bought a...

I have a question about how USB 3 hubs work when you connect USB 2 devices to them. The answer to this question may vary from hub to hub, or it may be standard across the board. The question is, if I filled a USB 3 hub with USB 2 devices, would the computer still be able to talk to the USB...

I have a lot of IT customers that need small server setups. These usually end up as some plywood bolted to a wall somewhere, the we wall mount a Mac mini, routers, switches etc. It's a pretty good setup, keeps the server components well ventilated and away from the humans that might do them...

This is going to be a wordy post because the devil is in the details. For many years, I've been running a fairly popular, fairly profitable website. In the very beginning, some 17 years ago, I hosted the site at home on my residential cable internet connection. Over time, the site grew and got...

I'm trying to get an old 2009 Apple Xserve up and running. One of the quirks of this system is that the drives have to be in 1.5Gbps mode. If they are in 3Gbps or 6Gbps, even though everything *should* be fully backwards compatible, the systems kind of freak out, and the drives disappear and...

I'm wiring up my new house with lots of ethernet and some coax and hdmi. I found really cheap "j" hooks, made for PVC pipes, which work excellently for creating dirt cheap channels on unfinished ceilings. My full map: Port Map The hooks (top): Dirt Cheap Data Channel That part of the plan...

I haven't looked in to mining in a few years now, I was just wondering if there are any strictly USB(3) solutions for hooking up external GPUs? I know there are PCI1 to USB to PCI16, but that requires one real PCI card per GPU (very logical). But a solution where you hook up the GPUs to ACTUAL...

I've been working in tech for well over a decade but I have absolutely zero experience with long distance, directional wifi antenna, or really any custom antenna of any form. Long story short, I bought a new house but won't be moving in any time soon, and still live at the old one. I'd love to...

Greetings. I'm in an odd situation. I'm a Mac guy that's always run Mac servers. My current server is a 1U Apple Xserve but it's getting pretty old, and really needs to be retired. So I need a 1U replacement. I've never bought a non-Apple server before and haven't really been able to find what I...

I'm renovating my whole house, including the attic. One end of my house is near the telephone pole where the lines come off the street, the other end is where my home office is. The closet in my home office has a networking wall, where all the equipment will be wall mounted, included any cable...

I'm trying to find some simple USB thermometers that work with OS X. I don't need any kind of fancy interface at all. All I'm actually going to do is use a command line program to prove the thermometers periodically. The reason for this is that I'm trying to set up some basic "home monitoring"...

I need USB keystone jacks. The reason for this, is because I'm putting some small surface mount keystone boxes on the bottom of a shelf on my desk. I'm going to run each port down to a computer running near by. This is not my primary computer, but it's going to let me easily use it by plugging...

I've been fixing Macs professionally (not through Apple) for well over a decade now. By far the most common thing I do is replace failing hard drives. While Apple's own tools (hardware test, Disk Utility) do almost nothing to positively confirm a failing hard drive, there are several other tools...

I use those little surface mount keystone jacks, mounted on the bottom side of the shelf on my desk, to give myself plenty of ports in very convenient locations. I have a display on that shelf too, that is just a spare I connect to any computer I need (i fix Macs). I've been trying to find some...

I've used keystone boxes like this many times to surface mount ports in many scenarios, including some ethernet ports on the bottom side of the shelf on my desk for super easy access. Well now I want to make hooking up a monitor to a computer I'm repairing just as easy. I'd like to put the...

I need a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter so I can start putting some 2.5" drives in my 8 Bay Mediasonic drive tower. But this drive tower doesn't have SATA "cables", its connectors are permanently fixed inside the case, much like a Mac Pro's SATA drive connectors. So you just slide the drive in. So I need...

So I bought a new house and getting ready to wired it up. I plan on getting verizon fios. The ONT will be in one of the bedroom closets. I really don't want the installer hacking up the house i've been busting my ass fixing up. So I want to run my own cable from the attic where the wires will...

I have a pair of AMD R9 270's running in a machine. Any guesses as to what they are doing ;) I'm trying to find some utility that can track the temperature of these cards. I'd be very surprised if they didn't have some kind of thermal sensor built in. But I can't seem to find any program that...

Does anyone have, or know where I can buy knew, some Firewire (ideally 800) SATA bridge boards? I've tried a simple google search, but there are very few results. And they are all expensive $65+ boards. I have a feeling that's the best deal I'm going to get. But I figured I'd post here just in...

This isn't really a power SUPPLY question but it is a power related question. I'm looking for a power cable just like this, but with 3 connectors. Anyone know where I can get such a cable? http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=47178 2-way splitter cables are often called "Y"...

Disclaimer: I'm a Mac guy that uses Windows solely for gaming. I know very little about windows. So if you have questions about my windows setup, or suggestions of things to try, please be specific. I have a 320m 13" MacBook Pro that I often hook up to my TV. I use a miniDP to HDMI adapter that...

When I run the `whois` command from the command line, on a "big name" domain (like `whois google.com`) I get all sorts of CRAP. The results of this are as follows: [MacPro:~] l008com% whois "google.com" Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be...

I have a bunch of items on a shelf that I want to mount under that shelf. See photo below. These items are a USB hub, an 8 port switch, and a fios router. These are all consumer products that have no mounting holes or anything. The switch does have to nail keyhole holes but they're really not...

I'm wondering if anyone knows where I can get a pair of surface mount cables, one for SATA data and one for SATA power. What do I mean by surface mount? I mean the type of cable where I can cut a small hole in the objects, and attach this to the inside, giving said device a (in this case) SATA...

I need a bag of adhesive clips. Maybe about 50 or so. They're hard to find in general, nevermind in bags. They need to be on the small side. Maybe a few different sizes. And they need really good adhesive. These clips will hopefully be staying stuck for at least 10 years, stuck to fiberglass...

I'm a life long Mac user, so this whole "building a computer" thing seems a little odd to me, however. I was toying with the idea of building up a small gaming pc with a powerful graphics card, instead of buying a PS3. I would use it SOLELY for gaming. I already have a kick ass media center in a...

So I have this very old 9 GB, SCSI-2 hard drive. It's a full height, 5.25" model. Its the size of two full CD ROM drives stacked on top of each other. One day, it stopped spinning up. I actually have two, and they both stopped spinning at the same time (this was close to 10 years ago). I had...

Does anyone know where I can find a few FireWire 800 to SATA bridge boards, at descent prices? The only ones I can find on google, that are in stock, are $80 each. There was a site span.com that used to sell them cheap and ship overseas. But now they don't carry any of them any more. Seems like...

Which would be a better setup? 2 x 512 MB - or - 1 x 512 MB + 1 x 1024 MB ? This is PC2-5300 DDR RAM. Although I think the laptop runs it as PC2-4200 (whatever speed that is). Also the laptop is running Kubuntu. It's my cousins laptop, and it currently has one 512 MB chip. I have...

...from the command line. It used to be as simple as: whois apple.com And I would get all the info from their domain name. But now when I do that lookup, I get this: [MacPro:~] johnm% whois apple.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be...

I've got a Mac pro that somehow developed a bad CPU thermal sensor while it was off for a week, when I was away on vacation. One of the two motherboard CPU sensors report 127°C / 260°F. However all four Core sensors report about 80°. The issue with this is that the fans in the tower run at...

Is there a place where I can get a blank full length PCI card? Something that will fit firmly in a PCI slot, with its face plate firmly in the case opening, and the back of the card held in the back holder. But otherwise completely blank. I'm having trouble routing cables around this server I'm...

I've got a pair of 9 GB Drives. They are OLD. They are 5.25", full hight. So they are each the size of two CD rom drives. They were ancient when I bought them about 7 years ago. I had them in a tower connected to my computer and they worked pretty well. One was filled with music, the other with...

$100 - http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811196012 Anyone know of any cheaper options for a 10 optical bay tower? I'm making a drive tower, but of course take the motherboard mounts, and pci slot holes out of the case and the price triples cause you call it a 'drive tower'...

I've had my 'media' computer hooked up to the AUX input on a big bulky stereo for years. I never use the stereo for anything else, so I figure its time I ought to dump it an get some speakers. These ones caught my eye cause they are cheap :-), I've heard Altec Landing speakers before and they...

I first got cable internet back in 1999 when Comcast was Media one. I bought my cable modem outright from CompUSA, but it was the same model they rent out, those really crappy ones. {visual aide} So after 2 years of always loosing my connection and having to reset my modem daily, someone told me...