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Upgrading the computers to 9.10 ubuntu
I’ve been weaning everyone off Windows over the past year so we’re getting into the first multi-computer upgrade of Ubuntu. One of the problems seems to be that an Ubuntu upgrade seems to take forever if you’ve been installing bits ...
A headlong dive in price in the netbook market
I know that computers are supposed to go down in price on a regular basis but the drops recently seem even more extreme than usual unless, of course, it’s just me keeping more of an eye on them than normal. For instance, the Acer Aspire One tha...
Where did all the modular laptops go?
Not so long ago just about every company manufacturing portable computers seemed to offer a whole raft of options with the basic model so you could have one or two batteries, or you could have a CD drive (’twas pre-DVD then) instead of one of t...
Are you surrounded by a tangle of cables from several computers?
It doesn’t take terribly long before the tangle of cables gets totally out of hand when you’re looking after a few computers. Not only that but the heat and noise from them all is quite substantial too. The solution to this is to use a KV...
Want to speed up your computer?
If you just want a bit more oomph out of your computer then the best approach is to look at the amount of swap space that’s being used. Eh? Don’t worry about the terminology, it’s just a number! Just right click on an empty bit of t...
The easiest and cheapest upgrade
When your computer is running slowly the tendency is to think that it’s time you needed one with a faster processor but often that’s not the problem. In fact, the laptop memory is by far the most important factor in affecting the speed a...
Isn’t it amazing what you can get on a portable hard drive these days?
Most of the time you don’t really notice the rate at which technology moves along but when you dig out a piece of not-that-old technology and try to bring it up to date you can really be surprised. Take my old SuperVHS tapes for instance. I was...
