Mike’s World of fun stuff (pinball, games, electronics, amusement parks, computers, more)

If you've got a QNAP NAS and some file in your music library is causing the QNAP's iTunes server to die, here's how you can track-down the problem and fix it.
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I finally decided to bite the bullet and bought a real NAS for use at home. I decided on the QNAP TS-219P for a number of reasons I'll discuss in the post. Also, I have plenty of screenshots showing the QNAP UI and a couple simple benchmarks comparing the performance to a USB disk attached to an Airport Extreme.

The Apple Safari logo

FPGA Replay board uses an FPGA to play classic arcade games

Digital Apollo book covers the computer technology of the Apollo space missions

Contrary to the wonderful support I received from Logitech some time ago, the brand new Seagate 1TB FreeAgent drive I just bought exemplifies the worst in support.
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Get in the computer time machine and travel back to the days of a simple computer that's programmed in BASIC and boots in under 1 second. Or, you can buy the Retro Computer System.
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I recently setup several IMAP accounts in Leopard's Mail.app and noticed that when I tried to quit Mail, it would "hang". This seems to be a common problem and I found a fix which may work for you too.
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The Amiga 500 was one of the very popular "non-IBM" choices back in the day thanks to its great selection of games powered by then-cutting-edge graphics chips and incredible stereo sound processors. If you long for the days of the Amiga and have a desire to build a project, this open-source hardware design might just what you need!
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