Archive for the 'Hardware' category
October 13th, 2006 / General, Hardware, Life, Operating Systems, Useless Information /
Am I the only person who thinks it’s dumb for me to have a hard drive in my car, in my stereo, in my computer, in my console and in my DAP?
My computer already syncs with my DAP, as that’s where I download my music. My stereo is hooked to a Roku Soundbridge and [...]
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September 22nd, 2006 / Code, Design, General, Hardware, MacOS, Operating Systems, Useless Information /
Apple’s displays are some of the most lusted after items in all of geekdom. Very few people are probably willing to pay the premium to have them but no one denies their beauty.
Today Mike commented how he loved his busted third LCD (with water damage) that he dedicates to viewing his Apache logs [...]
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February 25th, 2006 / General, Hardware, MacOS, Operating Systems /
This thing gives me the beach-ball of death all the damned time. I’ve got day-to-day first-hand experience with both a dual-core Powermac G5 and a 1.5Ghz G4 AlBook. Neither of those systems give me this much trouble. Updating my iPod (4,996 songs) apparently does the computing equivalent of kicking the iMac in [...]
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January 9th, 2006 / Hardware, Linux, MacOS, Operating Systems, Windows /
On the eve of The Steve’s keynote at MacWorld, Apple is getting a lot of buzz around the Intertron. Today at the office I was discussing an application with Nathan and I advised him to simply copy Foo.app to his other machine. I commented that such action should work flawlessly, as that is [...]
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December 16th, 2005 / General, Hardware /
Today I bought a Logitech Harmony remote. My boss has repeatedly told me how cool his is. My new A/V setup is much more complex than any before. Since I had a Best Buy gift card to blow I thought it was a good choice.
Let me first state that, technically, this remote does [...]
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November 5th, 2005 / General, Hardware, Music /
It’s official: I have too much music. It’s a shame that I am happy to be in this dilemma. I bought my 30GB 4G iPod Photo back in April. I got the 30 because I was well under the limit. Fast forward to today: 4,022 songs totaling 21.71GB. That’s 11 [...]
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September 16th, 2005 / Hardware, Work /
At my last job, I didn’t deal with any outside vendors. At my current job we do a lot of side things that talk to outside vendors. I have one question for all of you: Where are your damned web services? Are you aware that the people that produce standards have take [...]
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June 13th, 2005 / General, Hardware, MacOS, Operating Systems /
I’ve been toying with the idea of switching completely to Apple for years. I was hesitant to buy another Powerbook based on how little I used my first one. I eventually succumbed to the beauty that is Apple got one.
Last night, stuck in one of those can’t sleep moments, I decided that purchasing [...]
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March 1st, 2005 / Hardware /
I finally bought it today. Jackson finally pushed me to do what I knew I wanted to do.
It’s beautiful.
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February 18th, 2005 / General, Hardware, Linux, Music /
The triad is complete:
Sveasoft firmwared WRT54G
540GB of spinning disks (230 usable RAID-1 and a 40G boot) cradled inside an Antec Sonata sporting a $20, Atheros powered AT&T 6550G
Modded XBoxes running XBox Media Center
Add in a dash of Samba and we have a house wide, wirelessly distributed multimedia smorgasbord. I’m not sure [...]
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January 20th, 2005 / Hardware /
What’s has 20.1″ of viewable yumminess and a refresh time of 16ms?
The Viewsonic VP201s, of course.
Since CompUSA couldn’t get me a Powerbook, I decided to acquire the aforementioned 1.92 megapixels of sexy. I went to the CompUSA at Hundred Oaks mall rather than the one here in Franklin. The Franklin store [...]
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