Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
I needed a soft case for my Samsung NC10. After some searching I settled on the Caselogic PLS-9 Ultra Portable 7-10" Laptop Sleeve.
Buying this sort of stuff is always pretty hit and miss but in this instance the sleeve fits perfectly. The pocket on the front is big enough ...
Tags: Hardware, Netbooks
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Switching between different audio input and output devices on Windows XP is pretty straightforward. You can do this using the Control Panel > Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio Devices tab (see right). It means opening this up and changing the appropriate dropdowns. I wanted to ...
Tags: Coding, Hardware, Netbooks, PowerShell
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
I upgraded the memory on my Samsung NC10 , largely because I've never met a computer I didn't like more when it had some extra memory. Laptop Mag as a great article/video on How to Add RAM to the Samsung NC10. The video does a great job of stepping you ...
Tags: Hardware, Netbooks
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
So Chris showed up at a meeting on Friday with a nice new Microsoft Arc Mouse. I caught a severe case of shiny object envy pretty much right there. It's a really interesting and unusual design. As you can see from the picture on the right the mouse folds up ...
Tags: Hardware
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
So my trusty old Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop finally really died the other night. After many many years of service the hinge snapped. It's been limping along for a while; the battery no longer works, the disk drive has been replaced, the wireless card is cracked and the track pad ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Netbooks
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Someone asked me exactly how I configured the fans on my WHS to run really quietly. The previous post on this didn't have sufficient detail so here's some more wiring information.
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
So having got my home server up and running I finally got around to getting music streaming off it into my living room with a Logitech Squeezebox Duet.
First off this is not an appliance, it's a science project, albeit a really good one. I spent a happy hour fiddling ...
Tags: Gotchas, Hardware, Squeezebox, Windows Home Server
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
I did some more experimenting with this tonight and it turns out my choice of fans is pretty sub optimal. The principle cause of noise in this system in the CPU cooler and case fan. Getting these fans to run slower when they're not needed is the key to making ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Windows Home Server
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Which uses more power, the AeroCool Green Home Server or a 40 Watt light bulb? You guessed it, the light bulb looses.
A few hours playing with a Smart-Watt meter hooked up to my home server I came up with some power usage numbers. While idle the Home Server consumes less ...
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Performance, Windows Home Server
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
So having successfully put together a home server my mind started to wonder to desktop super computing and gravitational modeling. Which is when I came across this... Building home linux render cluster "24 cores that run each at 2.4 Ghz, a total of 48GB ram, and just need 400W ...
Tags: Hardware, High Performance Computing, Performance, Windows Home Server
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