So about the HTPC… It’s now 2013. Three years since I bought the thing, or so. It’s still running fine. I’ve done some upgrades during the past months, and I’ll discuss them in this article. First of all, the CPU fan had to go. And by go, I mean replaced with a thin form factor, […]
Read MoreI figured there has to be a way to get things working, and there was! After some diligent googling, I was able to find this page, which lists the steps to get TF2 working through the native Steam for Linux client. I tried it out, and had it working within 15 minutes. Trying the game […]
Read Moregoes without saying that if you brick your installation, blame yourself. This weekend I had some issues with Windows 7 that I have not seen before. This is rather rare. I sit at my computer pretty much 12-18 hours every day. The thing I was seeing was the 100 MB “System Reserved” partition (containing the […]
Read MoreOk so the SSD is now installed. It’s a Samsung MZ-7PC128B/WW, that is, a Samsung 830-series 128 GB drive and the final B stands for “bulk”, i.e. does not come with any mounting brackets, cables or doohickeys. On second thought, the mounting brackets would have been cool, but since the drive weighs 61 grams and […]
Read MoreThe i5 build is now complete and in production. The final specs are as follows: Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 – 129€ Intel Core i5 2500 – 196€ Kingston Hyper-X (blue) 8GB – 55€ Sapphire Radeon 6850 1GB – 161€ For a grand total of.. 541 bucks. Prices were from the day I ordered, that is monday […]
Read MoreIt was time to tackle the Apple G4 Cube. This was something I knew I wanted to have, at least ever since I read “Pattern Recognition” by William Gibson. In the book, the protagonist stays at a friend’s London flat, and uses his G4 Cube. The cube plays a small role, but i was fascinated […]
Read MoreSo as I mentioned in the previous post, I came in to posession of an old Apple Power Macintosh G4. Now, I already own a Mac Classic from ..what, the late 80’s? A-aand the G4 Cube. I like Mac design, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. I wouldn’t work with one (tried it, didn’t […]
Read More– Disclaimer – I won’t be responsible for anything you do to your phone, voiding waranties, setting small cats on fire, or causing your local subway system to stop working -Disclaimer- I recently got the HTC Desire Z. Slightly older, but it has the qwerty slider, which i wanted. Anyway, the HTC Sense UI default […]
Read MoreI was trying to customize Ubuntu just a bit, in regards to the “special folders”, that is, ~/Public, ~/Videos etc. These are special, in that they are recreated and/or renamed every time you log in, back to their defaults. Where are these defaults you ask? So did i, and the answer is pretty simple, and […]
Read MoreGoogle Video is shutting down as of the end of this month. Video’s will be available for download for some time after that, but then it gets the big shift+delete over at the Goog. The Archive Team sprung into action once again to save this potential treasure trove of digital information that would bite the […]
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