Hardware

Shane Hathaway on April 1st, 2009

Last week, an important desktop computer used by my family died. The connection between the power supply and motherboard fried somehow. I’ve never seen a connection fail like this before: all of the connections attached to red wires had burned the surrounding plastic within the connector. It was difficult to detach the connector, and even [...]

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Shane Hathaway on December 17th, 2008

I recently bought a laptop for my new job.  I chose an HP dv9933cl, intending to install Ubuntu on it.  The verdict?  It’s great!  I bought it from CostCo rather than Newegg because I wanted to avoid shipping in case I needed to replace it, but so far I see no need to replace it. [...]

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