188 posts since 2009.
A few days ago I decided to install WinXP on my Intel based iMac, using Boot Camp. Boot Camp assistant worked great, it created a new Boot Camp partition on the hard drive just as planned with a 32 GB partition. Popping in a Dell WinXP SP2 CD (from a
Long overdue, here is the final chapter in the warranty story going on with Dell. They indeed repaired the laptop – at least in part. The graphics now works as it should, but the computer is still unstable and hangs way too often to be useful, even with fresh installations of
Turns out Dell’s tech support wasn’t the way to go. After being told the laptop was 2 months out of warranty I had a chat with the sales guy who sold us the laptop two years ago. Friday last week he promised to look into the case and
Been using a Dell XPS M1330 at work from December 2007 until last fall (October 2009). It worked well until it in September 2009 started to act suspiciously, crashing from time to time. Problems escalating and in October it died. The symptoms were thin verticals colored lines that successively grew
When ordering the needed hardware new possibilities came to mind, as they so often do when you are browsing catalogs of companies selling cool gadgets… The first version of the 1-wire network will look something like this, possibly with some of the sensors furthest away from the server installed
So, having moved from a flat to a house a couple of months back it was time to do some actual work on a home monitoring system. First task: to find a good source for the needed 1-wire sensors and other electronics and hardware. Some digging around, comparing a
I regularly use 3-4 different computers, from time to time also guest operating systems running in virtual machines. For years I have been thinking it would be great if you could bring your current Firefox status with you to a different computer, for example between a Mac and PC.
Moving to a house from an apartment made me realize you have new things to consider. – How much money is spent on heating? – We have a 45-year old, huge water boiler in the basement, how much does it cost to keep it running? Would we save money by replacing