Posted on December 8th, 2007 by Elliot
Clever advertising campaign by Microsoft for the Windows Home Server.
They also have a lot of news report-like videos which are, in fact, just ads for the Windows Home Server.
via Scott Hanselman
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Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Elliot
Here’s what Wikipedia says.
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Project page
One Laptop per Child
Similar products
ASUS Eee PC, a low cost machine developed by ASUS
Classmate PC, a low cost machine developed by Intel
Linutop is another Geode LX -based computer meant for emerging nations.
Longmeng or Dragon Dream is a low-cost computer being designed in China
Tianhua GX-1C, part of a line of affordable machines [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Elliot
Small is back!
I remember many years ago I’d spent hours reading about the Toshiba Libretto. It was maybe 5 years ago. I would use Google and find everything about it I could. I’d read everything I could find on every fansite.
I searched for it on eBay and went on forums to find people who were [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Elliot
From an article in IEEE Spectrum, it looks like they had a pretty serious situation on the International Space Station this past June, but they’ve worked it out. It shut down the station’s three computers, which are crucial for space station operation.
October 2007 -Aboard the International Space [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2007 by Elliot
When I bought my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Z61t, I chose the lowest-end battery option because the battery is one of the easiest parts to replace in a laptop computer. I always intended to someday get a battery that would last longer, so that I could truly have laptop portability.
While preparing for BigSeminar X (more about it [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Elliot
Here is some valuable info from the Google cache for a website that’s now down.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Working on a Disk…
I’m working on a disk. It’s has some nasty bad areas on the disk, so much so that I can’t use Acronis True Image to clone the data. It’s probably not completely necessary [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Elliot
Today a couple of laptops came in for repair. One is a super-thin Sharp laptop with a dead hard drive. What an opportunity to run SpinRite!, I thought. But there was just one problem: no disk nor disc drives of any kind.
These super-thin laptops have a hard drive, but no optical drive and definitely no [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2007 by Elliot
With Synergy, you can use the same keyboard and mouse to control any number of Windows, Linux, and Mac computers.
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Posted on September 14th, 2007 by Elliot
Funny noises can sound like different things, and it may take someone with some experience to accurately describe and determine what the noise is caused by. Here are some common ones:
The hard drive.
The CPU fan.
The power supply fan.
Case fan(s), if applicable.
The internal speaker.
An optical drive.
The hard drive will typically make more of a “clicking” noise, [...]
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