I bought an external hard drive to back up a bunch of stuff that I have laying around on computers. I purchased the Seagate 200GB Firewire drive because a) Techbargains pointed out that there was a sale on them and b) I neglected to read the reviews on CNet. That said, the drive seems fast [...]

Sometimes, something works so well and so invisibly that is just makes you kind of chortle with glee whenever you use it. My Gentoo box has become my primary workstation — nowadays, I am using my Windows box only for games and iTunes. Each has a separate monitor, so I can see what is going [...]