Are you the kind of ‘early adopter’ that loves to have non-consumer grade kit in your house?
Do you have PC based devices in your house to perform chores that embedded devices usually do?

If you answered ‘yes’ to either of the questions above then you understand the pain that is in my household currently.

In a revious post I postulated the woes of losing a raid 5 array and the heartache that goes along with the sick to the stomach feeling that you have lost years worth of accumaleted entertainment data.

It has been two weeks now, and I am pretty much no closer to having my 4 hoe systems back together again.

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Being the techno-geek that I am, I *have* to keep up with the latest technologies and, to be honest, being and early adopter sometimes is a hard road to follow.

I plonked my cash on the counter pretty much right away on the switch-on of the Digital TV system here in Sydney, and have been pretty much underwhelmed ever since.

Picture break ups, audio pops and induction noise are all issues that anyone relying on Digital TV in Sydney has just had to come to live with, but why is it so?

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