https://miroadamy.com/tags/hardware/ Recent content in Hardware on Miro's World Hugo -- gohugo.io en © 2026 Miro Adamy Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:22:48 +0800 https://miroadamy.com/posts/2018-10-23-google-wifi/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:22:48 +0800 https://miroadamy.com/posts/2018-10-23-google-wifi/ <p>Installed Google Wifi - three access points. Finally I have good coverage on both floors of the appartment including the upper terrace and will be able to work at night outside during hot summer nights when temperature does not drop under 25.</p> <p>The setup was supereasy and iOS app is very well made and gives interesting insights.</p> <p>Happy.</p> <p><figure><img class="my-0 rounded-md" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" alt="" src="https://miroadamy.com/images/google-wifi.jpg" ></figure> </p> https://miroadamy.com/posts/2006-12-05-the-problem-with-hard-drives-too-large-and-too-cheap/ Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:36:51 -0500 https://miroadamy.com/posts/2006-12-05-the-problem-with-hard-drives-too-large-and-too-cheap/ <p>I have worked through my listening to the Security Now! podcasts up to middle October now (more specifically up to <a href="http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm#62">here</a>) and one remark from Steve Gibson forced me to think very hard: how today's hard drives encounter hundreds of read errors a day (actually Leo said "hundreds a minute"), but thanks to ECC process and dynamic reallocation of sectors, this is invisible to the user, because:</p> <blockquote><p>" .... if a file is damaged because of a bad sector, it can recover that data by recovering the data, either moving it or kind of reformatting the sector underneath it to make it readable again ... "</p>