Entries Tagged as 'Grab Bag'

Re: Matt Santos pals around with serial killers

Comments   1   Date Arrow  November 12, 2008 at 10:34am   User  by Carlos

I’m saddened so few people got my joke earlier on Twitter, so much so that I feel it necessary to explain it because it involves two excellent dramas that everyone needs to have watched in their lifetime.
First, Matt Santos was a character on the West Wing played by Jimmy Smits. Santos was a Democratic senator [...]

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Slideshow: Lenovo X200 Disassembly

Comments   0   Date Arrow  September 21, 2008 at 11:55pm   User  by Carlos

Continuing with the recent string of laptop related posts, I thought I should post a few of the disassembly photos I took of the Lenovo X200. Taking the laptop apart is rather simple - just remove the screws on the the laptop (depending on what you want to remove, you only have to unscrew certain [...]

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Benchmarking: Samsung 64GB Solid-State Disk

Comments   0   Date Arrow  September 12, 2008 at 5:43am   User  by Carlos

There has been a huge amount of hype and misinformation in the solid-state drive debate as of late and whether it’s a technology that’s ready for primetime; I recently purchased one with my newest computer and want to offer some real-world tests. The drive in question is a Samsung 64GB SATA SSD (1.8″, Model No. [...]

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Sprint EV-DO, Mac OS X, GPS, and you.

Comments   1   Date Arrow  August 30, 2008 at 11:57pm   User  by Carlos

I’ve been a customer of Sprint’s Mobile Broadband service for quite a while and have wanted to whip up a how-to on getting it to work well on OS X for a while but never got around to it. However, since I’ve gotten intrigued with the idea of GPS, I thought it was time to [...]

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