Upgrading a 2010 Mac Pro with a Geforce GTX 680 Mac Edition
I’ve just completed upgrading my 2010 Mac Pro with the EVGA Geforce GTX 680 Mac Edition. The...
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Category: Ramblings
Carbonite vs Crashplan: a couple of paragraphs worth of thoughts
I am a bit of a backup freak. I have a time machine backup on a RAID 5. I have a backup on...
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Quick post – Good to see the staff at Dropbox have a sense of humour
This popped up yesterday after a dropbox re-install: NOTE: My LAN isn’t really that slow!...
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Can I install a small PCI express card in a large size slot? Turns out, yes.
While I’m sure many people are aware of this, it was something I hadn’t ever...
Read More2010 Mac Pro ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphic card problem update
The graphics card failed to come on again this morning. After many restarts and pulling the power and the monitor connections, I eventually got it to boot back up with no screens attached. Then I plugged each one back in and...
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2010 Mac Pro ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphic card problems
A few months ago I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my ageing 2006 Mac Pro to a new model....
Read MoreObligatory first post
Well, I had to get this out of the way to begin with. The dreaded first post. Here it is. Isn’t it exciting? Yep, that’s pretty much going to be the tone of this site: semi random and with no real point. And...
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