Apple has released a very small Mac called the Mac Mini, and it will be sold for $499 (40 GB) and $599 (80 GB). It doesn’t include a monitor, keyboard, or mouse — but you can get those anywhere. The Mini is the lowest-priced Mac; it used to be the $799 eMac. However, it does…Continue Reading…
An article on MacWorld.com claims that the Dell isn’t cheap anymore, despite costing $100 less, when you consider all that it lacks in comparison to the Mac Mini. They’re wrong. The specs table on their page states compares the Mac Mini’s “Two USB 2.0 ports” with the Dimension 2400’s “USB 2.0 (assumed–Dell doesn’t list this…Continue Reading…
The year 2005 has been proclaimed the “World Year of Physics” by the United Nations in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s “Annus Mirabilis”, in which he wrote a series of papers that revolutionized our conception of the universe.
My computer is occassionally getting a BSOD on startup. Upon restart, I’m told to send an error report to Microsoft, which is followed by this report: Solution Found: Contact Texas Instruments to obtain the update Problem Description Thank you for submitting an error report. The error was likely caused by TI Connect™ (ticalc.sys). Problem Resolution…Continue Reading…
I’m learning how to build Firefox from CVS. If you’re doing the same, this page, of course, is the key: http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html You can get CVS here: https://www.cvshome.org/ (takes some looking for, though) You can get GNU make as a package with Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/ I’m building it now. It’s huge! Perhaps I’m doing something wrong….Continue Reading…
Attempting to install Windows XP Home Edition on a Pentium4 PC. “The file serenum.sys is corrupted.” In efforts to locate the source, I swapped out hard drives, XP install CDs, CD-ROM drives, IDE cables… I took out one of the sticks of RAM (there were two). I had really thought the problem would be the…Continue Reading…