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Dell Precision M6400 Audio & Touchpad Drivers

Hello all! Just an update / followup to my previous post about the M6400 – you should be able to use the M6500’s audio and touchpad drivers (they’re newer, for the same hardware).

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News

Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6 is finally out! Head over to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ to download a copy!

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Clean Installation w/ Windows Upgrade Keys

Smile 🙂 You can use an Vista or Windows 7 upgrade key to do a clean install of their respective operating systems. How? Do a clean install of Windows. Then run the installer (from the DVD) inside the unactivated copy of Windows you just installed to “upgrade”. Your installation is now marked as an upgrade […]

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Information Security Online Privacy

Another Facebook Scam

Well you know about the previous Dell Facebook scam? (http://darwin-mach.net/blog/2009/12/10/dell-promotion-facebook-scam/) This one’s worse, but uses the exact same code, which does the exact same thing. The theme now is that it claims to install “Profile Spy”, to help you see who’s looking at your profile, etc, but THERE IS NO SUCH THING. There’s only a […]

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Laptop Audio

So, my laptop is a Dell Precision M6400. For a while now, I’ve been experiencing some weird issues with the sound card (IDT HD Audio) Some examples: – Random audio hiccups – Every time I open Adobe Soundbooth, open a file in soundbooth, or change my microphone settings, I get a brief, but loud piano […]