Category: tech
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Laptop, resurrected. Productivity, still dead.
I got the replacement hard drive from Dell today- fast shipping, one business day. I feel like I’m playing Monopoly, because this is a total Dell Error in My Favor. I had a 100GB drive. They gave me a 120GB drive. Freakin’ sweet. Unfortunately, they sent the thing pre-imaged, but only halfway, so when I […]
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Dead laptop
My laptop’s hard drive committed suicide at 35,000 feet last night. I was using it on the plane and the whole thing just died. I think a head’s out of place, dragging straight across the platter, because it’s awfully noisy. Nothing will boot, even a Live CD. Luckily I shelled out a couple of benjamins […]
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New iPod line… *drool*
OK, I know it’s been really geeky here recently, but, well, I have been really geeky recently. Sue me. Today Apple announced new iPods and iTunes 7. This is the coolest refresh I’ve seen to the line so far… The second-gen iPod nano and shuffle are definitely the coolest new things… But they updated the […]
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Haz la Vista, Baby.
I totally shot all chances of productivity today by installing Windows Vista RC1 on my E1405… It took me a few tries to get it right (as in I installed Vista twice and XP Pro once today…) but it dual-boots XP and Vista now… It’s good. I didn’t think I’d say this, but Vista works […]
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…Is it warm in here, or is it just my lap?
Ack. In the last month, three Dell laptops have exploded. With my luck, the TSA probably won’t let me carry my E1405 onto my flight to Colorado next week, since they’ll be classified as some kind of WMD by then. (…I wonder if reproductive organs are covered since I went for the expensive “Accidental Damage” […]
Zeke Weeks 