Posts Tagged ‘hardware’

Joys of Computers

The first rule of com­put­ing is to RTFM. The lesser known but equally impor­tant corol­lary to that rule is to be sure you are read­ing the right man­ual. If I had remem­bered that, I could have saved myself 3 hours of frus­tra­tion this evening.

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The Xbox is Dead, Long Live the Xbox!

Which is to say, our Xbox died the other night mid-game, tak­ing with it our beloved XBMC. This evening we broke down, bought a replace­ment and I’m set­ting it up right now. Wheee!

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Mixed Day

This after­noon while I was home for lunch, I noticed that SuSE­Watcher was show­ing this icon: This means that there are new secu­rity updates avail­able. I launched YOU to get the new updates and noticed it was an updated ker­nel. I didn’t think much beyond that and let YOU do it’s thing. But after I rebooted […]

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Is it just me?

As I’ve men­tioned before I run SuSE Linux 9.0 Pro for my desk­top OS. My PC is one that I home-built with a bit of help from my local hard­ware guru (Eric). For my video card, I’ve got a BFG GeForce 5600 SE (or was did they call it an Ultra? *shrug*) with 256MB of […]

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