With the SSD’s on their way from Kingston, I decided to go a little bit more in detail on the what, why, and how’s of SSD’s. SSD stands for Solid State Drive.  This “Solid State” is a term for the fact that the drives themselves do not have any mechanically moving parts.  A typical Hard [...]

Super User Question of the Week [7 February 2011 - 14 February 2011] With the roll out of IPv6 and IPv4 addresses quickly running out, there will be soon a greater migration over to IPv6.  But there seems to be an issue, your computer’s MAC address may be included with the new IPv6 address.  In comes Arjan’s [...]

Super User Question of the Week [14 Febuary 2011 – 21 February 2011] Google’s search results have been well… under the spotlight recently, including our very own Jeff Atwood.  Lifehacker did a poll  recently and discovered that nearly 77 percent of their readers think that “Google’s search results are less useful”.     But whether you agree [...]

Super User Question of the Week [21 Febuary 2011 – 28 February 2011] If you’ve got an HP laptop and noticed that it overheats often, don’t just write it off as unfixable.  You might be suffering from the CPU Assassin! A little bit of background.  Sathya had a problem with his laptop.  As a super [...]

It’s finally here, Super User’s test comparison of the SSD, HDD and Hybrid drives!  All thanks to Kingston’s donations. Overview: We took one Kingston ssdNOW V 100 series drive and recorded read/write speeds and boot up time benchmarks and compared the results to a Seagate Momenus XT 7200 rpm Hybrrdid Drive, and a Seagate Momentus [...]