Since the very day I started blogging here on Overclock.net's blogs, it has been very clear to me that some of the members are somewhat confused on what blogs are supposed to be and what they can and can't be use to do. I'm not pointing fingers here, but seeing two sentence blog entries just makes me want to cry.

I figured that I might be useful to newer members and first time bloggers by sharing the little knowledge that I have on blogging with you guys, as to make OCN blogs a better...

The hardware industry in itself is constantly changing, but one sector that has particularly evolved over the years is the disk storage sector. Nowadays, everybody from hardcore enthusiasts like we OCN-ers to our formerly computer illiterate grandparents are now juggling around with voluminous files, music, movies, and large collections of high-resolution digital pictures, so the overall demand for bigger, faster drives just keeps growing.

Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital and all...

We all know that when painting anything, from metals to sheetrock, one should sand then use a primer to treat the surface prior to painting, as to assure a flake free paint job afterwards.

As hardware nerds, modders, lover's of fine case art, we spend tons on high quality paints (12$ a can for textured duplicolor anyone?), just as expensive clears, wet-dry sandpaper in grits that most hardware store people don't even know exist and even those little 3M scrubby things that double up...

I was check my EOC stats and graphs the other day, you know a folding nerger's gotta get his fix of numbers and histograms, and I noticed this:

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For those of you who do not yet know, I am a total, utter, complete Fedora whore. When it comes to Linux, if it isn't sponsored by Red Hat, I'm not running it. Now I do download other more specific distros, but when I'm installing Linux on a box for everyday or server use, I always grab my trusty Fedora.

However, a few days ago when I was setting up my server again after a hard drive failure, I came across a problem running the Folding at Home x64 SMP client. The error message I got...