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Problems with Dell Latitude E6400
I bought a Dell Latitude E6400 last September when the hard drive on my aging ThinkPad T42 started hemorrhaging sectors left and right. I could have just replaced the hard drive and kept chugging along with the ThinkPad, but my 1024×768 really wasn’t cutting it coding in Visual Studio or Eclipse. I wanted a notebook [...]
Uber-geekiness
I stumbled upon this page of essential digital skills while researching drive partitioning strategies for my new 500GB hard drive in the context of server virtualization under Linux.
I don’t know whether the scoring is for skills you can do or have done, but either way, it says I’m a "Radified Warrior". I think "Über Geek" [...]
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Frickin’ laser beams!
I picked myself up a nice affordable laser printer today in the Lexmark E250dn. It’s got the two features I wanted most: a network port and a built-in duplexing. Since the printer can sit on the network, I can reclaim the PC I’ve been using as a print server and use it as a test [...]
How To Repair an Ethernet Cable
I’ve had a broken Category 5e Ethernet cable lying around for a while that I finally decided to fix. Actually, the cable was fine, but the spring on one of the modular connectors was broken, so it wouldn’t stay in a network jack. Since I’ve never done this before, I figured it’d be [...]
Foray Into Ubuntu
The other night I installed Ubuntu, a user-friendly if not the most user-friendly Linux OS distribution, on my mothballed classic Athlon 600. I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about it, so I thought I’d install it on an old machine to use as a file server.
If you’re at all curious, you should [...]
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