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• How to handle a burning PC
  Tuesday 1 February 2005 – 01:37
  When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." That advice for dealing with life's little crises, from Robert Heinlein's sci-fi thriller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, may relieve stress and even give you a nice workout, but it isn't going to help fix a smashed, soaked, fried, aflame, spyware-savaged, virus-laden or just plain crappy computer.

• Sometimes TV Gets Too Hot to Handle*
  Thursday 13 September 2007 – 11:01 in Consumer Electronics
  In 2005, in tandem with Mike Chin, Matt Wright, and Justin Korelc, I wrote a book for Wiley Publishing called Build the Ultimate Home Theater PC (ISBN: 0471755494). It helped me to advance from the status of interested media PC neophyte to experienced me
• Can Your PC Really Handle Vista?*
  Monday 26 February 2007 – 01:46
  Our £200 / €350 PCs are powerful enough to take on everyday workloads, but can they cope with Vista's requirements? It's all in the components.
• Can 802.11g APs Handle the Load?*
  Tuesday 17 August 2004 – 06:15
  Ever wonder if the extra money you pay for an "enterprise" access point is buying the ability to handle heavier traffic loads than the $100-or-so AP on your local retailer's shelf? We did too until we put six 802.11g APs through some pretty heavy load testing, with some surprising results...