A few days ago a friend of mine asked me if I could help him to find a new place to live in. I nodded and thought that it can’t be that bad at all to keep my eyes and ears open; But as life shows: let people speak their sentences to the end: The new flat should […]
The SSD for daily use
My last post was about some technical facts regarding the Crest 6 Master by Angelbird where I promised to publish some results of my daily-use test with using my Lenovo W500. First of all, keep in mind that the disk isn’t running full speed as my controller only offers 223.24 MB/sec, which is about half of the disks […]
The Need for Speed
Now it’s official – I got myself a brand new SSD disk to get a little bit more speed out of my laptop. For comparing things I did a short hdparm test with my older Seagate Momentus XT as I am too lazy to look up some kind of datasheet. Keep in mind, that disk is a hybrid […]
Two years at the W500 – and now?
My W500 isn’t really an old PC, but I have to admit that I do hit some performance limits by now. So what now? A new notebook? Geez… Looking back at the upgrades already done: The internal Harddisk drive was already exchanged: A Samsung Momentus XT, which is one of those Hybrid disks (classical disk with a SSD […]
IceCreamSandwich vs Motorola Atrix
My Motorola Atrix is running on Gingerbread which is a little outdated by now. The only way to get it updated at the current state of writing is an unofficial update to ICS/JB which is tempting because of the new functionality which I really miss here. Motorola promises an update, but so far, the discussion is pretty hot […]
OwnCloud – migrate sqlite to MySQL
OwnCloud is a simple and great solution for working with files online, especially as you do have it on your own machine. It offers WebDAV, Sync clients and it’s extendable by a couple of plugins. In short, I am convinced of the concept. It’s easy to set up and you don’t even need a MySQL server for a […]