I have always been a hard-core AMD fan, but the reason was not loyalty. The reasons were because first, it was the fastest speed for the lowest price. Second, Intel, back in the day, shipped their chips in a cartridge form. Similar to the Nintendo DS games, but bigger. [...] Continue Reading…
When I first read the article about the traits that an IPad owner and a IPad hater has, I was quite surprised.
I like the Blackberry. If the IPad had a slide out keyboard, I would change my mind and like the IPad more. Unfortunately, the IPad only has a [...] Continue Reading…
On my Dell 1501 notebook, the user account is flaky. The shutdown button will disappear from the panel. The wifi will stop working. Ubuntu 10.04 will freeze up at times. Therefore, I had to do something.
Unfortunately, the solution is not one that is likely to please everyone. Every user [...] Continue Reading…
When I visited ASecurePC.com, someone has added an external link to a website. Furthermore, there was a user added to my list of users. At first, I thought someone has hacked Dokuwiki. Then I realized that nobody hacked Dokuwiki, I invited a new user.
If you look at the familar [...] Continue Reading…
Looking over the article about the $100 US IPad clone which can be found at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/predicts_stiff_competition_ipad_100_android_tablets, I question if it will really be as good as Apple’s IPad.
The hardware needs to be either purchased from a supplier and/or manufactured in-house. Furthermore, faster processors cost more than slower ones. For [...] Continue Reading…
After the 1950 external version broke down from overheating, http://aprivatebeach.com/blog/2009/04/using-the-hauppauge-wintv-hvr-1950/, I decided to purchase the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI version. Since I only had one PCI slot and zero PCI Express slots left, which one to buy was an easy decision.
Just like the 1950 version, WinTV version 6 must be [...] Continue Reading…
I tried to update Ubuntu 10.04, but it ended up crashing. Therefore, I had no other choice but to reboot. Upon rebooting, I ended up getting the following error message when I tried to update Ubuntu 10.04.
‘E:Malformed 2nd word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing libsasl2-modules (UsePackage1), [...] Continue Reading…
When it comes to upgrading Ubuntu, people often question what are the differences. Furthermore, people often will question if it is worth upgrading.
Fortunately, I will explain the differences for those that are curious.
When it comes to installing packages, going online and downloading the latest and greatest program such as [...] Continue Reading…
When a document gets sent to the Samsung CLP-315 printer, it is no longer in the printer queue. Therefore, canceling the job while it is being printed is not possible that way.
The only way to cancel a print job is to:
pull out the paper tray.
wait til the printer [...] Continue Reading…
Using Firefox, I have seen an odd printing problem. When I print an article on the Internet, the 1 page article stretches out to 4 pages or more. I have to put 2 pages on top and two pages on the bottom to read the article. Therefore, I had [...] Continue Reading…
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