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Category Archives: Hardware

A pleasant day

11-Dec-09

I had an interesting day yesterday. I attended my first Fellowship meeting in less than 24 hours after finally joining the Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe. The Berlin group of the Fellowship turned out to be full of interesting people not all of whom are technogeeks. After Hugo Roy’s presentation about the alarming features [...]

Laptop Hacking a la Frankenstein

14-Jul-09

I had a cheap MSI laptop lying around with no functioning hard disk or CD drive for a while. I have tried switching HDDs, yet it continued failing to find a drive, so I’m guessing there was a motherboard trouble involved. (Though I’m a sub-newbie when it comes to PC internals.) Today’s been a slow [...]

Beta Testing Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04

04-Apr-09

I own a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s with Intel GMA X4500 series graphics chip that I wanted to use with an additional monitor for some time. Because this chipset is quite new, it didn’t perform well in gNewSense 2.1 which is based on Ubuntu Hardy. So I settled with the then just released Debian Lenny because [...]

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