Old tricks can still save money
Recently, there was no sound coming out from my main PC and I began to suspect the sound card, an aging Guillemot Maxi Sound Muse. Naturally, my thoughts turned to acquiring and those in stock at PC World seemed to have unknown or dubious Linux compatibility. However, I powered the machine down for the night [...]
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A very silly mishap
Last night, something very stupid happened to me: I tripped up in my main PC’s cables and brought the behemoth crashing about the place. There was some resulting damage with the keyboard PS/2 socket being put out of action and a busted USB port and mouse. When this happens, thoughts take on the form of [...]
HardwareA new laptop
Having had it on my wish list for a view years, I finally succumbed to temptation and purchased a laptop in the PC World sale, a Toshiba Equium A200-1VO in fact. I reserved it on the web and popped into the nearest store a few hours later. However, while the reservation system worked, the collection [...]
Hard drive cooling
Having had my main PC’s case hot to the touch last summer, I was wondering what was causing it. Components like CPU’s and graphics cards would need to generate a lot of heat to manage that. However, my main suspects are the hard drives in the machine: they do run hot after all and sit [...]
HardwarePSU shorting: one adventure too far…
This morning, I got up to find my main computer powered off after I left it on overnight for a spyware scan by Webroot Spy Sweeper. After satisfying myself that it was dead, I tried popping a new fuse in the plug. What I saw next was far from being a pretty sight: shorting in [...]
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