Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns
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I sometimes get urges to do small hardware or software hacks so I try and find projects that are not too difficult while providing some improvement in a devices capabilities. I’ve been feeding this “geek tech-hunger” for many years.
The latest project:
This past weekend I replaced the internal PCIe wireless card in my [...]
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Yesterday I restructured our home network to included separate 802.11n and 802.11b/g wireless segments. I had two main reasons for doing this:
Over the last several months there has been a wireless boom in our neighborhood. Where I once could pick-up three wireless networks I now, on a good night, can locate six to eight. These [...]
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In January this year I posted of installing Fedora 10 Linux on an Acer Aspire One Netbook computer.
I’ve been living with this combination for a month and thought I would share a few longer term impressions.
Pros
1. It’s still a joy to be able to carry this little computer about easily with no more bulk then [...]
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This morning I took my car to the dealer for routine maintenance recommended during a prior visit. I’d been told it would take 1.5 to 2 hours so I brought along both a book and my Acer Aspire One netbook to occupy my waiting time.
Normally I’d just wonder around the new car lot to pass [...]
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As I sat down at my computer this morning I noticed a nightly back-up job window open with a failed status and the associated external Firewire 800 backup drives unmounted.
I cycled the firewire device off then back on and the drives seemed to mount but upon restarting the back-up a loud distinct “click-click-click-click…” could be [...]
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While following announcements from CES I was pleasantly surprised to hear of the new Palm Pre. I was a fan of Palm PDAs long before there were serious smart phones–as I write this there’s still a Palm ‘Tungsten C’ PDA sitting in it’s charger on my desk.
It appears the Pre and it’s webOS seem functionally [...]
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Another cool rainy day here on the mid-atlantic, right side of the country. I watched the live coverage today from MacWorld in San Francisco.
At the Keynote Address Apples’ Phil Schiller announced upgrades:
iLife Software Suite (iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD & Garage Band);
iWork Software Suite (KeyNote, Pages & Numbers);
available iTunes customer upgrades to high quality, 256-kbps AAC, [...]
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This past holiday season Netbook computers were a leading seller for Amazon, and thanks to my dear wife I was a lucky recipients of one of those sales.
I received a Sapphire Blue Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch (1.6 GHz Atom Proc, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Netbook.
One of the most [...]
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Yesterday, October 14th, 2008, Apple announced new MacBooks, MacBook Pros, a new 24″ LCD display and an upgrade to the MacBook Air. While these new products were impressive, what I found most interesting was another announcement.
Apple announced a new manufacturing process that creates a “unibody” chassis from a solid brick of aluminum reducing the number [...]
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I received my Nikon D700 late yesterday evening and in this post have I’ve jotted down my first impressions. Many of these observations you’ve perhaps read in reviews of the D700 but it’s things I took note of at my first hands on.
Very similar in size, weight and physical control layout to the D300. A [...]
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I’m purchasing a Nikon D700 full frame (FX) camera. I’ve been considering the D700 since it was announced, trying to resist the temptation, and have reached the point where I’ve decided to do it. Yes, all my efforts to hold back have given way.
I get much enjoyment these days from photography and so I’m taking [...]
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