Monthly Archives: May 2008

Add an exhaust or intake fan – Case Mod

Many articles and studies will tell that too many case fans is a bad thing. The ideal air flow setup is one intake and two exhaust (one being the PSU). But there are times that you will need to add an extra case fan. You will need a power drill and a hole saw. For [...]

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Keyboard Mod

How cool would it be to have a backlit keyboard, but without paying the price for one. I will show you how to mod a $20 USB Keyboard. The style of wiring I chose (series) was only possible with an external power supply, however you can easily wire your LED’s in a way that will [...]

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Server Racks

If you are a geek like me you wouldn’t mind having your own server rack in your home. Why settle to the single server that sits in the corner when you could have a mini farm. I just recently got my hands on a used 19″ 47U server rack. Assembly is difficult in a house, [...]

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Data Loss

Hello, here at TomSchaefer.org we have suffered a mass data loss due to file system corruption and RAID corruption. I have been able to recover most of my data, but some things are still not working right. Due to the mass data loss I have learned a couple of things and I would like to [...]

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New Domain name

I have purchased several domain names for my site through godaddy.com. I am replacing my mot.is-a-geek.com with TomSchaefer.org with one of my domains that I have purchased.  You may be wondering why TomSchaefer.org, well .org domains are  cheap right now and its easy for people to remember my domain name.

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