Recent Posts Tagged With 'PC'

• Wrangling Cables

  Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 09:10 in electronics, PC, geek, cables

  I hate cables.  For years, I’ve been struggling with managing cables at the back of my computers.  I’m a non-Mac (PC) dude, so I always have a bunch of unsightly cables.  In fact, all of my electronics suffer from messy cables madness....

• Laptop, Camera, and Toys, Oh My!

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 02:19 in PC, notebook, memory, stuff, camera, tax

  I finally got my tax refunds, and already I’ve been spending them on toys (consumer spending helps the economy, right?)  Here are some stuff I bought recently to upgrade my electronics: Got a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite U400-ST3301. It...

• Trying Out Fedora Core 10

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 17:17 in PC, Linux, geek, stuff

  Since I’m no longer running my own Linux server to host this blog, I have a spare machine to play with.  Red Hat just released Fedora Core 10, I thought I try and upgrade my FC9 system, and see what changes they’ve made. As expected, I c...

• PC Build 2008: Part 2

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 00:10 in PC, Games, build, geek, stuff, productivity

  I completed my PC hardware setup.  Last weekend, I concentrated a good chunk of time to get the software up and running.  My Operating System of choice now is Windows Vista Ultimate.  I’m planning to upgrade my PC to 8Gb of RAM, so I’l...

• PC Build 2008: Part 1

  Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 14:41 in PC, geek, stuff, desktop, components

  It has been at least 3 years since my last PC build.  My rule of thumb is to build a new PC with at least twice the capacity at the same price.  A lot has changed in 3 years so it’s pretty easy to find new parts with at least 2x the power.  ...