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Saturday, 31 March 2007 10:24 |
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I've been threatening to do it for months. Last week, I finally did it. I jumped ship from the Evil Microsoft Monopoly, and purchased a MacBook. The decision was tough. I've been a loyal Dell notebook user for years. My work involves using several proprietary Windows applications. But over the last few weeks, all of the pieces started falling together. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 31 March 2007 10:24 |
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Friday, 13 October 2006 08:15 |
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A funny thing happened to me the other night. I was at home. It was late. The rest of the family had gone to sleep, and I was up late trying to win a few more levels on Lego Star Wars 2 on the Xbox. At about 1:30am, I decided to go to bed. As I was switching off the lights, I smelled a strange hot plastic kind of smell. Following the smell, I suddenly realized it was my wife's Dell Inspiron 9200! The charge light was blinking orange and green. The smell was awful. I quickly yanked the power cord out of the back of the machine, and flipped it over. The heat coming from the bottom of the laptop was incredible. I literally burned my hands while ejecting the battery from the laptop. After placing the battery on the balcony, i returned to inspect the laptop. Thankfully, there was no damage - the unit still powered up with the AC cord, and there was no visible heat damage. |
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 11:54 |
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As I blogged before, I've been having some fun with some Compaq Proliant DL360 servers we recently acquired. After fixing the Fedora Core 5 install issue on the first server, my second server installed correctly, but upon booting up, it only recognized a single processor. No matter what I tried, it wouldn't see the second processor. I even tried taking the drives from the working machine and putting them in this one. The problem stayed with the hardware. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 June 2006 11:54 |
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Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:19 |
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I recently spent a whole bunch of time banging my head against a wall trying to get Fedora Core 5 installed on some Compaq Proliant DL360 machines I have. Core 4 installs fine, but Core 5 has a problem with the hardware RAID on these machines. The installer fails to identify the driver (cpqarray) successfully, and if selected manually, it finds it but fails to find any hard drives attached. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:19 |
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 11:01 |
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Several months ago, I acquired a second XBOX to use as a media center in my house. I thought I would try to skip the expense of a modchip, and I tried to flash the XBOX's TSOP directly. Unfortunately, something went wrong, and I ended up with an XBOX that wouldn't boot. I had to break down and purchase a modchip to replace the motherboard BIOS. Well, a few days ago, this XBOX developed a nasty problem whereby it would switch itself off after a random amount of time. Because the family is hooked on watching IPTV via the XBOXes, I went out and purchased a replacement, and moved the modchip over to the new unit. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 02 February 2006 11:01 |
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