The new laptop arrived today and all I can say is holy crap it’s sweet. Small, light and exremely quick. Everything I could ever want in a new laptop. The best part is that it came with Linux already installed. The first thing I did was take some pictures as I unboxed it:
The first time […]
So NBC and Microsoft are streaming a ton of the events using their proprietary Silverlight technology. The Mono project has a port called Moonlight that supposedly works with Linux. Going to the NBC Olympics site you get a popup saying only Windows and Mac with Silverlight are supported. No problem. just install the Agent Switcher […]
I was alerted by ClaudioM on the techshow IRC that there’s a major issue with the Nvidia 8400 video card. Sure enough Dell talked about the issue a few days back. I called Dell’s sales support this morning and they had me cancel my order and I redid it with the Intel x3100 video card. […]
Well the old Walmart piece of shit made by Chinese slave labor laptop has been driving me crazy lately. It’s been slowly flaking out over the last 6 months or so. Recent random reboots from overheating have been pushing me over the edge. Beside the reboots I’ve had the following issues:
the battery doesn’t hold charges
the […]