Hardware

I needed something better for the office so i could add a keyboard slide underneath the main surface where I used to have the inkjet printer. It’s been years since…

I may be the auto industry’s version of a basic bitch. Rains for one day, i run out and buy new wipers for both cars. Also, when some poor sap…

At some point in the last month or so, I apparently broke the filter on my main lens. Sucks, right? Yeah, we’ll, that filter was stuck today when I discovered…

For the first time in years (5+?!) I’m completely rebuilding my computer, and this is that story. I’ve decided to live-blog the process somewhat, because I take pictures with my…

Believe it or not, it’s time for Yet Another Computer Refresh and associated post.  These are really nice for me to be able to reference, so I post it for…

So I’ve been playing with Sketchup and my Makerbot, and it actually turned out relatively successful today.

…and you’re completely invisible to Picasa. It’s uncanny. You probably have heard about my current obsession with face tagging on Picasa, and to that end, I’ve been going through all…

With the decommissioning of my old computer, I really took notice for the first time of a strange limitation in WHS – there’s no way to export an image of…

It’s January 2012, and that seems like a really good time to upgrade my workstation.

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a real overhaul on my computer system.

Despite what I just tweeted, I don’t think my inability to grasp a few simple tech concepts is a symptom of getting old, although maybe, upon reflection, it is.

For years, AVG has been my antivirus scanner of choice – it was fast, didn’t bother you, and didn’t bother my computer.

Just a stupid little note to show a picture of a small box of cables that I threw away yesterday while going through my computer cable box.

I’m not quite ready to ditch Win7 (but I’d like to!) on my main computer yet, but I’ve been having really good luck with Ubuntu, both as the only installation…

Just performed an applications reset on my Pre because there was some weird issue where there was a blank application that was keeping my phone from updating some of the…

So the Apple tablet has everyone’s knickers in a twist.

I have an Asus M3A79-T Deluxe motherboard on which I’m using RAID 5. Sounds simple enough, right?  Well, it ain’t. The fucker breaks RAID almost as soon as I fix…

It’s the holiday season and you should be listening to Christmas music at work. The best way to do that is to go to http://media.clapboard.org and navigate to the Christmas…

Okay, so here I am, updating from the open WiFi network in the house in BelAir. Housesitting is weird – there’s nothing much that I’m responsible for, there’s no one…

WinDirStat. It’s an old program, but it works fine on Win7, and it gives a simple, boxy view of your HDD usage.  I’ve been turning to it for a long…

AMD Phenom II X4 920 2.8GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Processor Asus M3A79T Deluxe Motherboard (w/onboard 5.1-channel Audio) 8GB DDR2 1066 OCZ…