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Sandy Bridge NIC vs. Solaris 10 & 11

Posted on 2012/04/01 by The Geez

I’ve been working with a new multiboot build: Intel DH67CL motherboard and i3-2120.  It needs to boot Solaris 10 and 11 (among several other OSen) for PCI board and driver testing. Networking isn’t absolutely necessary, but sure would be handy.  … Continue reading →

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Freeze Your Hard Drive

Posted on 2012/03/31 by The Geez

(Full disclosure: Bob at Bainbridge Computer Services showed me this trick a few years back.) Sometimes a dead or dying hard drive can be resurrected long enough to rescue important files, or even pull a full clone. Drives sometimes fail … Continue reading →

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