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News Peter Cochrane's Blog: Out of range? Acid and explosives were involved… silicon.com's tech guru Peter Cochrane also came up with a way of re-using old tech by showing how you can boost your wi-fi signal with the aid of a household satellite dish. [31 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...
Comment That 1TB storage unit my son built with four 250GB hard drives in a PC frame at a cost of £3,000 just eight years ago can now be replaced by a much smaller box complete with power supply and all interfaces for a mere £130. [14 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast
Comment Other innovations include a wider trackpad with a slew of new interface innovations and the offer of an optional solid-state replacement to the ubiquitous hard drive. First it was the floppy drive, then the IrDA port, quickly followed by PCMCIA slot. [28 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The last CD
Comment When travelling internationally I carry a mirror of my laptop in the form of a 120GB pocket hard drive stashed in my luggage, while at home I enjoy several terabytes. Most people I know now travel with a memory stick and an MP3 player or pocket drive. [25 Oct 2007]
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Comment Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress the chance of doing a few drive throughs for a coffee and some connectivity. Or document formats that are themselves a kind of encoding to make it hard to read them except in the program that made them. [11 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security twitch
Comment So, should you get up and walk away from your laptop or PC the screen goes blank and the hard drive is locked down as soon as you are more than three to five metres away. Written in Dublin after a long working day and dispatched from Lower Ufford... [11 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Good-bye CDs
Comment Average file sizes were growing in response to computers' bigger hard drives, larger quantities of RAM and greater operating system speeds. And finally, the leading machine designers dropped the floppy drive facility from PCs and laptops in favour... [14 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Scam repeats
Comment What it really contained was a Trojan horse, virus or some other malicious code that would attach itself to the victim's files and/or infiltrate the hard drive directly. Written at The IoD London after having found an apparently blank CD at a... [22 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A crash-free life?
Comment Similarly, my mobile phone, camera, pocket hard-drive and memory stick are all conservatively rated to give a little extra safety and operating margin. So, soon I think I will be contemplating the removal of back-up OS and apps discs, portable hard... [20 Apr 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The MP3 Wars, part 2
Comment Some traders are selling iPods with all the original CDs and DVDs used to fill the hard drive, whilst others are not. Written and edited on BA 219 flying London to Denver and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service in Boulder, Colorado [27 Jan 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heavyweight delete
Comment Written at home after a few frustrating hours trying to recover from a dual hard-drive failure. So down in the garage, data deletion and hard-drive death came in the form of a 5mm cold chisel and a 2kg hammer. [03 Jan 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travelling ultra-light
Comment Also, make sure you have back-up software, and a pocket hard drive with a complete copy of all your files, in with your clothes in case you need to do an emergency rebuild from scratch whilst on the road. [27 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Back me up
Comment The last time I had a really severe problem on this scale it was a full hard drive failure. Since that event it has been my practice to travel with a pocket drive replica of my main hard drive that I update regularly. [01 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Thank goodness hardware doesn't last forever
Comment So for a lower price than my previous model I have 60 per cent more hard drive capacity, 50 per cent more RAM and a clock speed that is 30 per cent faster. A coffee shop in Ipswich, UK The man in front of me, who is about my age, is casting a... [01 Jul 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I fought off a DoS attack
Comment But they seemed to be continually probing, looking for a way in, trying to find an open port or some means of accessing my hard drive, network, connectivity, email, who knows? University of Cambridge Computing Dept, UK [30 Jun 2005]
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