hardware

What to Include & Exclude After Re-Imaging

December 2, 2008 By jbb Leave a Comment

I had my laptop re-imaged this past week because of problems installing and running FCP. Painful. So, tonight I’m spending the first part of my Thanksgiving break re-installing software. This is a very familiar tale for me. Alas, in previous years I was usually installing something for a family member. Not too likely this time. [...]

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Mars Phoenix Mission “Ends”

November 13, 2008 By jbb Leave a Comment

Watching the landing of the Mars Phoenix probe was one wonderful geek highlight last Spring. Alas, I’ve gotten a bit busy and haven’t been paying as much attention as I should. Then I heard the following sad message on Monday: From Gizmodo: This is My Farewell Transmission From Mars If you are reading this, then [...]

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Another Geek-asm: Going from Puny to 320

November 7, 2008 By jbb 1 Comment

This is entirely a geeky thing (consider yourself warned). I had a revelation many weeks ago when I was trying to figure out what to do about having endless strings of external hard drives connected to my Mac Mini because my iTunes library didn’t fit on the Mini’s puny 60GB (5400 RPM) hard disk. Add [...]

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Apple Fights Back – MS Still Doesn’t Get It

October 20, 2008 By jbb 1 Comment

Buzz was that Microsoft’s last three ads changed the effectiveness of Apple’s “I’m a PC/I’m a Mac” ads. To recap: the first Seinfeld/Gates “Churro” ad left the techies wondering WTF and the general public wondering when Gates and Seinfeld’s new sitcom was going to be airing. The general public got their wish with the second [...]

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External Hard Drive Hell

September 25, 2008 By jbb Leave a Comment

Out’a nowhere my 320GB External HD decided to die. Watch the little LEDs go back and forth, but the drive doesn’t want to mount. Argh! jbb My twitter moment-by-moment assessment of the situation follows:

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The Great Mysteries of Filing Cabinets

September 22, 2008 By jbb 2 Comments

I work with some really really amazing people, but sometimes we are not so hot on the simpler things of life. It keeps us from taking ourselves too seriously and can add a lovable quality to our character. Take for example a problem Dr. Chris was having with his filing cabinet… A Laura Monroe video [...]

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…Now with Twice the Space

September 15, 2008 By jbb Leave a Comment

Finished the upgrade of the MacMini’s hard drive (from 120GBs to 320 GBs) and the airport wireless from 802.11g to 802.11n last night. Here’s the thing, I think the Apple design, how they creatively cram so much power into such a small case, is a thing of beauty. I’m tempted to leave the case off [...]

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Frustrating Missmatch

September 13, 2008 By jbb Leave a Comment

Argh! I decided last night that it was time to begin some of the upgrades that I previous mulled over, shut down the mac mini, pulled out the cables, relocated the printer and drobo to the bedroom and called it a night. So this morning, knowing that moving the data to the new hard drive [...]

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Geek Mindmap

August 30, 2008 By jbb Leave a Comment

I don’t have time to work on my e-Harmony profile or actively pursue that whole thing… but I seem to have time to contemplate future tech improvements of my home system. I originally got the white board to help me map out my FS course plan, but it looks like it’s been drafted to first [...]

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Multiple Screens Re-visited

August 9, 2008 By jbb Leave a Comment

Just before MacWorld 08 I went through a series of failures including one of my two external LCDs and for a while the Matrox DualHead2Go that was attached to the LCDs. Add to that, when I got a replacement 2nd LCD and the DualHead2Go to work, the fact that the two LCDs were not exactly [...]

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