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I may have too many computers…

  • Posted on October 11, 2012
  • by john

I’m doing some dev work on an ASUS Zenbook running Ubuntu that I am carrying around. I have a Macbook Pro that I carry around for productivity and photography apps.…

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ASUS Zenbook UX31a and Ubuntu — seem like a fine pairing

  • Posted on October 9, 2012
  • by john

I need to be able to do some Linux-based dev work while mobile. I’ve limped along using OSX and also using VirtualBox, but neither of them are really optimal, notably…

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If you are coming from the PC universe, the Raspberry Pi boot sequence is funky

  • Posted on October 2, 2012
  • by john

Read the “RPIforum”:http://elinux.org/RPi_Software outline carefully. No boot rom, no boot loader. Instead: The boards do not include NAND or NOR storage – everything is on the SD card, which has…

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Dorking around with an intel atom home theatre system

  • Posted on May 30, 2012May 31, 2012
  • by john

“Rich”:www.tongfamily.com asked me what setup I am using — here is what I have so far * Zotac IONITX-S motherboard with Intel Atom D525 proc Nivida ION 512MB GPU. You…

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MSFT’s biggest miss — another facet of MSFT’s stagnation

  • Posted on February 19, 2012
  • by john

“Microsoft’s biggest miss”:http://minimalmac.com/post/17758177061/microsofts-biggest-miss is a nice discussion of another issue for the company, the slippage in relevance of Office. I can’t speak to the whole market, but my document composition…

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MSFT and the decline of the PC hardware ecosystem

  • Posted on February 18, 2012February 18, 2012
  • by john

In the late 80s, IBM attempted to reassert control over the PC hardware platform with the introduction of the PS/2 and its proprietary “MicroChannel”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture architecture. The cloners fought back, customers…

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Holiday PC Builds

  • Posted on December 22, 2009
  • by john

Time for our biennial system build exercise. We built two systems over the last two weeks. While I still use my MacBook Pro for 95% of my productivity work, the…

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Mac vs PC anecdote

  • Posted on August 29, 2009
  • by john

My Macbook had a motherboard failure two weeks ago. Both USB ports on left side blown, wifi chipset blown. (Blame Tekkcharge but that is another discussion). Discovered this at about…

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Charles on the stupidly overpriced Sony Netbook

  • Posted on January 22, 2009
  • by john

“They seem to have built the PS3 of netbooks” via Platformonomics – Sony and the Joy of Overpriced Netbooks.

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Samsung NC10 Netbook

  • Posted on October 30, 2008
  • by john

Amazon.com: Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home) Blue: Computers & PC Hardware. — supposed to have great battery…

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Dell Netbook

  • Posted on September 8, 2008
  • by john

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Details.  Pretty interesting price point.  If i was starting a company, why wouldn’t I equip everyone with these and ask them to use google docs and…

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Kill cell phone speaker buzz

  • Posted on June 28, 2008
  • by john

Clever Uses: Magnets Kill the Cell Phone Speaker Buzz — an old but effective idea

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