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Most if not all of the photos in the posts are gone.. No I did not loose them, well kind of – on purpose…
After 5 years I felt that I needed some new hardware for my server, and one of the things I decided was to move all my photos to smugmug, where [...]
One of the more annoying things about new motherboards and Linux is that they sometimes does not work – that is they actually work, but then something does not work.
The most annoying thing for me is always the network card…..
In this case with the Asus P5QL Pro, the network card was not [...]
Wireless networks have been around for sometime, and I have had it for years as it makes it easier to take my notebook with me around the house.
I have the first generation of the Apple Macbook Pro’s which does not come with a 802.11n card, which have been annoying me for a while, so [...]
There have been some writing the last couple of days after a data recovery company have said that all 2.5″ Seagate harddrives made in China used in Apple Macbook and Macbook Pro’s can crash due to a hardware failure.
The thing is that a manufacture can be unlucky and release a batch of “faulty” [...]
For years the harddrive vendors have had a small notice on their harddrive stating that they think 1GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes and not 1,073,741,824 bytes, it does not really look as much but it is approximately 7% in difference, and for a 100GB disk it’s 7GB. Now do the calculation on a 500GB disk, and [...]
Well kind of, but still. I’ve had my MacBook Pro for 19months and is still quite happy about it, I’ve applied all the patches for OSX they’ve asked me to apply, and it still works (there was an issue with wireless and battery, but there was a workaround for that).
As for the hardware, I [...]
I wrote “The end of the Mac roadâ€???, as a response to Ian Betteridge, now it seams that things have happened in “choose your OS” world….
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet have written a comment to “why does people still use Windows” discussion.
First installment: Five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t [...]
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