DIY Emergency Lighting in a Crate (72+ hours)

Here's a simple, yet often forgotten piece of emergencies, lighting. For the average person, electric lanterns, oil lamps, and candles are the norm. However, candles and oil lamps pose a fire hazard and electric lanterns don't last long. For ham radio, I already heard many stories of folks going out to the field and end up using a flashlight for everything. [...]

Dell Precision M6600 vs M6400 Hardware (Overview & Disassembly)

October 18, 2011

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So here's my long overdue hardware review / disassembly "guide" of the Dell Precision M6600... (Thanks, Dell for the exchange upgrade covered under your wonderful [...]

Dell Precision M6600 (and BIOS Update A06)

October 17, 2011

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Over the summer, I acquired an exchange upgrade from my Dell Precision M6400 to an M6600. I got a chance to disassemble and replace the mainboard in this new system, but [...]

HTC Sensation (4G) 1.45.401.2 OTA Update

August 14, 2011

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This week, the HTC Sensation (Pyramid) is being blessed with an OTA update that brings Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 and has been reported to fix the HTC Sense lag issues and [...]

nVidia Optimus Giving You The Blues?

July 25, 2011

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With a new burst of laptops this year, there is a good handful of them that now come with nVidia Optimus. What is this technology? In a nutshell, nVidia Optimus is a [...]

Roaming Profiles: From Windows XP to Vista / Windows 7

June 4, 2011

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Quick, short post today, but this will probably save you a lot of time searching for a pretty much non-existent answer to a new "feature" introduced in roaming profiles for [...]