Sakarā ar jaunu hlamu iegādi pārdodu pa garšīgām naudiņām vecos hlamus Mantas likšu pēc izmēra – lielākā manta ir saliekams velosipēds Argus Challenge. Labi der sievietēm, bērniem un vīriešiem, kuriem nav tik garas kājas kā man. Salokas uz pusēm, lai mazāk vietas aizņemtu dzīvoklī. Ripo aptuveni kā vidējās kategorijas Maximas velosipēdi. Ideāls pilsētas dzīvokļa velo. [...]
Guys, we have a problem. The name of that problem is NVidia and their Optimus technology. The idea of that tech is quite neat – take a laptop, put two video cards in it, use the powerful card when you need 3D power, use the weak card when you need to conserve battery. The problem [...]
This is just a quick note that I broke down and replaced my ageing iPhone 3G with a brand new unlocked Google Nexus S. I got it in my hands last Saturday and by the end of the first day it did 90% of what I used my iPhone for and by the end of [...]
I had planned long for this Debconf and with the experience from the previous times I did all I could to reach one goal – minimise stress. I think I got it right this time. First of all I got my company (Accenture) pay for the whole thing, so I did not have to worry [...]
Currently I own and use an iPhone 3G. I bought it almost two years ago, when the local phone provider LMT started offering the iPhone legally. I had a pretty good experience with it most of the time, but now it is showing its age: The two year warranty will run out in September The [...]
We had a Microsoft salesperson stop at our offices today to tell people about wonders of cloud computing and Microsoft’s Azure will save us all. The following is a short and non-exhaustive list of what Azure does not do according to their own experts: no Infrastructure as a Service – which means that they actually [...]
Daniel, I also recently installed a WRT on the Linksys WRT54GL. But I used DD-WRT instructions – went to http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database, entered my model number and got direct download links to the firmware along with a README. One very important points in flashing these routers is to clear the NVRAM by doing a hard reset BEFORE [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Want a sound card? Want a cleared sound that is not contaminated by electromagnetic interference in you computer’s case? Want that all to work in Linux? I did. So I got me one of theseUSB sound cards. It arrived today in a tiny padded envelope. And it works with Linux. Just plug and play. PulseAudio [...]
My primary workstation is a 3 and a half year old Dell XPS M1710 laptop and it is getting old – the 320 Gb hard drive is getting small and slow, the 3 Gb or RAM (expanded from 2 Gb) look too small and screen is turning brown in one corner. Also dead or dying: [...]
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Yesterday my cat spilled a full cup of hot coffee on my 2k$+ laptop. Today, there is no trace of the incident and the laptop is working perfectly again. This is partially thanks to luck, partially to Dell laptop engineering and partially to my instinctive actions within first 10 seconds of the incident. I will [...]
