Daniel Aleksandersen

Posts tagged with "hardware"

Escaping a crashed screen on the Mac

Wednesday, 9. December 2009, 20:12:03

Having problems with your screen going black with only the mouse courser being visible? Here is a quick-tip on how-to recover from this problem.

Press Control–Shift–Eject
Wait for the screen to shut off, and then press Enter

This will restart the display and you wouldn’t have to restart the whole machine. I sometimes get crash logs when this happens, and they are all pointing to QuickLook helpers or graphic card drivers.

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Crashed a 2 TB hard disk

Monday, 9. November 2009, 07:39:00

hardware

Yesterday, I lost over 2 TB worth of data in an hard drive crash.

Luckily, I am a Backblaze costumer since of last month. So I only lost the 130 GB of data that Backblaze hadn’t gotten around to back up yet. I wounder what those 130 GB data really was … I know one game and two TV shows are missing from my iTunes library. But what else?

I bought one Samsung Story Station, 1.5 TB ed. (Register Hardware review | Amazon referral) and one Seagate FreeAgent Desk, 0.5 TB ed. (AC review | Amazon referral) as replacements for the failed drive.

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From Bubba to Mini

Thursday, 29. October 2009, 00:35:43

hardware, snow leopard

OK, so I have given up on the Bubba experiment. Sold it, and I am now aiming for a Mac Mini as server. (Since Apple just release the product that I actually wanted all along: Mac Mini Server edt.)

So much for open source and cheap solutions …

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Cloud services at home, with the Bubba|Two

Monday, 21. September 2009, 15:26:00

linux, hardware

Saturday, I got a Bubba|Two mini server (above) from Swedish hardware maker Excito. I haven’t had the time to set it up until now, but I know that this is going to be one very interesting home Linux project!

It’s been four years since I left Mac OS X for Linux after Mail in OS X Tiger refused to send my emails in UTF-8. About a year ago I made the switch back to Mac OS for this job as an Mac consultant at Opera. I never really left the Unix world, and now I am going back in to take control of my own online data.

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SSD performance

Tuesday, 15. September 2009, 16:34:00

hardware

Unfortunately, I have lost the performance data I gathered when I upgraded my Mac mini with an SSD. Even with a Time Machine backup there will always be dataloss when moving over to a new hard drive. Here are some quick impressions about the upgrade.

I don’t know whether the improvements are due to the SSD or my other recent upgrade: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I do know, however, that I did an incremental updated from Mac OS X 10.6.0 to 10.6.1 in 46 seconds—including a reboot! That is pretty impressive.

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Mac mini upgrade: SSD

Saturday, 15. August 2009, 15:08:38

hardware

I have already got the fastest browser … how could I possibly make this experience any faster? Short answer: a quick hardware upgrade to an Solid State Drive from OCZ! Of course.