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Backing up using Carbonite

December 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Computers

At home I have a fairly good backup scheme for ensuring my main PC and the wife’s laptop have their critical data stored on at least a couple of other disks. In addition to using cross-copying each other’s content, I have a second hard disk in the main PC just for backups and an external [...]

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A simple Perforce backup script for the home

July 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Perforce

I use the free license of Perforce on my home network just to ensure version control and management of home coding projects, university thesis stuff, and general files that I just want to ensure I have previous versions of. It’s a really nice part of the Perforce licensing model that I can get two users [...]

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Streamlining your PC to play games

December 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Computer Games

Overview Before I run a resource intensive game, I execute a little batch file that kills a bunch of background processes that are simply not needed when playing the game. I’ll explain the details below. I have also noticed that before I used to do this, I experienced awful crashing problems with my PC just [...]

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