Both 1TB Hitachi Deskstars running raid 0 have decided to die at pretty much exactly the same time, cannot reformat either of them and they give me the nice head knock sound. Luckily replaced with a 2TB Deathstar… ok so I’m not sure if I’m that lucky…
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This battery is HUGE but it lasts an incredible amount of time. I got fedup when my G1 ran out of juice during Blizzcon so I got this:
It lasts about 3x as long and I only have to charge my G1 every other day now.
The day the internet died… or crawled anyways.
Published by September 1st, 2009 in Tech Shit. 0 CommentsToday Facebook went to shit (not surprisingly) and Google mail stopped working for a while. Cause? Well Facebook simply because it’s a piece of crap architecturally and is prone to lockouts of content updates that include media and gmail?? Not sure… interesting that they would have issues.
So I just had AT&T U-verse installed today. First of all, the installer showed up really promptly and within the window of the appointment. He then went out to the junction box on the street to check the signal level from the fiber junction, it was all good. He was very good, [...]
Why Google is not really the friendly, open mega billion dollar company you think it is…
Published by May 8th, 2009 in Tech Shit. 0 CommentsA lot of geeks would say that Google is open, that it even contributes to “open source” and that it’s mobile platform Android is “open source”. In reality that is a load of crap. The only parts of Android that are open are the parts that Google releases. The API is released [...]
A few hints: if you are upgrading there’s no need to burn the ISO, just mount the ISO and copy the files to hard disk since you need to modify the ini for the upgrade anyways, then run the setup from disk.
- Atheros gigabit network drivers will bluescreen your Win 7 RC, but [...]
Windows 7 beta 7000 to RC upgrade done part 1! VMWare issues…
Published by May 1st, 2009 in Tech Shit. 0 CommentsYou can upgrade from any release to RC with this trick:
http://www.blogsdna.com/3083/how-to-upgrade-windows-7-beta-build-7000-to-windows-7-rc-build-7100.htm
Once upgraded the thing that breaks VMWare if you were running it on Windows 7 is the network drivers need to be reinstalled… just fire up VMWare setup and do a Repair.
So after reading all of NVIDIA’s hoopla about their “personal supercomputer”, I decided, well instead of spending ten thousand bucks, I can do this right now! I’ve got the GPU power, it’s just a matter of trying to get this shit to work.
So I thought to myself… well… those C1060 cards that NVIDIA sells [...]
First look… an SS
This included heavy usage in the first hour and numerous reboots. The battery was recharged at 5% which is a realistic usability level.
