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The computer, demystified

17 December 2008 0 Comments

I’ve been working on computers for about ten years. In those years, I have gone from being lucky at assembling old parts to make a PC all the way to engineering entire voice and data networks. As a network administrator for my employer, I run into confused faces all the time when it comes to [...]

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Performing a clean install of Windows Vista using upgrade disc

16 November 2008 0 Comments

[Editor's Note, 7 September 2010: this process should also work for Windows 7] Many DIY PC builders were used to keeping up with the latest version of Windows simply by purchasing the versions marked “upgrade” for about a hundred bucks less than the regular version. (By the way, for those who don’t know, let me [...]

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Fixed my PC

5 November 2008 1 Comment

I got my eBay motherboard in today, an ABIT KV8-MAX3, and I just finished getting it installed in place of the failed MSI K8N Neo. Hooray, I guess.

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No, really, it wasn’t the CPU

3 November 2008 0 Comments

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Maybe it was the CPU

1 November 2008 0 Comments

Hmm… Well, I’m writing this on the PC I thought was dead; it’s working now. Since Thursday, when I tried the processor I bought off eBay, the PC has been sitting in the “I give up” state with the power LED flashing on and off. I hadn’t realized I’d left it “on”, so this morning [...]

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It wasn’t the CPU

31 October 2008 0 Comments

Well, I got my replacement Athlon64 yesterday, but evidently one of you failed to cross your fingers for me like I told you to on Monday, so it didn’t solve the problem — my PC is still dead. So, it would appear that my beloved MSI K8N Neo Platinum Edition has bought the farm, kicked [...]

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My ‘puter is dead

27 October 2008 0 Comments

The first sign of death was last week, when my home PC shut off without warning. Odd. So I started it back up and went back to what I was doing. It did it again shortly thereafter. So I said “phukkit” and went to bed… This happened a few more times, and then it got [...]

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Quick review on Windows Vista

15 June 2006 0 Comments

I am writing this entry while running in the second beta of Microsoft’s Windows Vista. Why am I running Windows when I have made it so public that I prefer Linux? Simple: family, friends, and co-workers who I am happy to support do not use Linux, and thus, will likely be using Windows Vista sometime [...]

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One of the best weekends

30 November 2004 1 Comment

I have to say this past weekend was one of the best I’ve had in a long time, and well-deserved too! The weekend started with standing in Steve’s back yard, clutching a brew and watching the peanut oil heat up in preparation for the turkey fry. Man, Steve knows how to do everything. In fact, [...]

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Good ol’ days, no computers

20 September 2004 3 Comments

I think a lot about how things were in the past. I certainly wouldn’t know about the distant past, of course, but history has taught me a lot and so it’s not too difficult to use a little imagination to paint myself a picture. Most of my thinking is about the 1900′s; I like to [...]

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