Fixing an Overheating Toshiba M700

I have been quite frustrated with my Toshiba M700 for the last couple of months. It never seemed to run as well as it should with the CPU maxing out at 100%, the battery going very quickly and the casing getting hot. I had deliberately bought the M700 as a desktop...

USB Windows Boot Disk

I find it useful to have a USB boot disk when I am messing about with hardware, particularly since many systems no longer have a floppy drive. It was also the only useful thing I could do with the freebie Lotus QuickR 256Mb USB pen given away by Mary Beth Raven at...

Thecus 4100+ NAS ( 2/10 )

This device is just terrible. It has a Gigabyte network interface but the CPU max’s out on just a standard network. It did seem like an attractive option being able to take 5 x 1Tb disks but I ( and others ) have found the performance terrible, particularly with...