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• 2017-12-09 Updating Intel ME on a Lenovo Carbon X1 3rd gen #commandline #computers #hardware #security
  No doubt to Andrew S. Tanenbaum's great joy recent news have revealed that many Intel processors run a version of Minix on some kind of extra "security" core...
• 2016-09-04 Jukebox upgrade - better USB sound card #hardware #jukebox #music
  Back in May I upgraded my jukebox to a Raspberry Pi 3, but couldn't get the cheap USB soundcard I had been using with the 2+ to work. Fortunately the built...
• 2016-05-01 Raspberry Pi 3 #computers #hardware #jukebox
  I upgraded my jukebox to a Raspberry Pi 3 yesterday, after becoming exceedingly annoyed by my Raspberry Pi B+ only managing to boot about half the time. So...
• 2016-03-26 Soehnle scale usb connection #hardware #programming
  Soehnle makes a scale with a wireless display that collects measurements, and can be attached to a computer using usb, called "Body Balance Comfort Select"...
• 2015-12-31 There, I fixed it #cars #hardware
• 2015-11-28 Glorious 4K #computers #hardware #x
  In the beginning of the year, I got a new 4K 28" monitor. At the time I struggled a little to get my desktop computer to drive it at full resolution, but succeeded...
• 2015-01-24 Hardware going belly up #hardware
  My Samsung 305T plus started flickering in a weirdly regular pattern. My first guess was that it was the graphics cards, as the pattern did not show when the...
• 2014-12-06 Jukebox and NFC/RFID #hardware #jukebox
  I just ordered some small RFID stickers and a USB RFID reader/writer. Planning to put the stickers on albums, and to have the reader near the stereo, and adding...
• 2014-06-16 USB utilities #hardware
  blink(1) - cute!
• 2013-02-12 Raspberry Pi powered USB hub #computers #hardware #jukebox
  Since I replaced my Mac Mini in the role as jukebox with a Raspberry Pi I went looking for a powered USB hub, because the Raspberry Pi didn't provide enough...
• 2012-04-21 Looking for a new CPU+motherboard #hardware
  I just noticed that the current crop of consumer motherboards now support 8GB memory modules, making a switch from 16GB to 32GB in my desktop computer feasible...
• 2011-10-01 Alternative music #hardware #music
  There is a band that only plays Commodore 64 music - ok, so check this out: Imperial March. Someone needs to make a band doing music only with floppy drives...
• 2011-06-11 Intel X25-M 80GB SSD - expiration time: 1 year, 11 months, 1 week #hardware #ssd
  This is what a dead SSD looks like: [ 1.126422] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xfe02f000 port 0xfe02f280 irq 22 [ 11.140107] ata4: softreset failed...
• 2011-03-09 Lenovo USB Smartcard Keyboard works on Debian GNU/Linux #hardware #keyboard
  I ordered a Lenovo USB Smartcard Keyboard (17ef:6007) because I thought the idea of getting rid of the smartcard reader with the permanent green light cluttering...
• 2010-12-04 eBuddy USB device on Linux #hardware #programming
  Quite a while ago I bought an "e-Buddy USB MSN/QQ Blinking and Flapping Audio Visual Message Angel" - just for fun. I thought it might be useful at work to...
• 2010-10-24 Hacking Lenovo BIOS #hardware
  Steve Langasek describes how he coped with the braindead locked down Lenovo BIOS: '"ThinkPad wireless" is apparently code for "poorly supported RealTek chip...
• 2010-06-27 Lenovo ThinkPad X100e #hardware
  I finally grew tired of the crappy Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" graphics chip in my Acer Aspire One 751H (read all about it), and went ahead and bought a Lenovo ThinkPad...
• 2010-03-27 Wires falling down behind the table #hardware
  Simple office supplies to the rescue: Original dutch version Adaption to unsuitably thick table
• 2009-07-06 Acer Aspire One 751H #hardware
  The Acer Aspire One 751H looks like a nice package: 11" screen (1366x768) pixels, slow processor, large battery. For me, on Debian unstable, everything, including...
• 2009-06-24 Hardware, hardware... #hardware
  Matthew Garrett writes: "It's an impressive turnaround from the recent days when the straightforward recommendation for mobile Linux hardware was ...
• 2008-12-06 Hardware sucks; Asus M2A-VM HDMI keeps blinking #hardware
  So, even though I could not procure any excuses by writing about it, I bought some new hardware for a desktop machine - an Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard, a 45W...
• 2008-11-02 Home computer half-time #hardware
  How often do you replace your home computer? Every year? Every other year? Every third, fifth, seventh year? I'm curious - leave a comment.
• 2008-10-14 Apple LED Cinema Display #apple #hardware
  So Apple has announced a new LED Cinema Display - convenient as my trusty old 23" Apple Cinema Display HD is starting to show its age. For the old one, I had...
• 2008-03-18 Buying fans #hardware
  Some weeks ago, just before leaving for FOSDEM'08, my closet-server virgil started to act up. I quickly turned on the cabinet-fan that came with the cabinet...
• 2007-02-20 New closet server #hardware
  My closet-server, virgil, is beginning to make a little too much noise and heat. So, I am considering getting a new, smaller thing to replace it. As it is...
• 2006-10-22 Harddisk upgrade, Linux #hardware
  Lesson learned from changing harddisk in my Debian GNU/Linux etch using udev-Mac Mini: Remember to create /dev/console on the new disk. Otherwise the kernel...
• 2006-03-30 An ideal desktop computer #hardware
  After Apple announced new versions of their small Mac mini, now with Intel processors, the various shops selling Apple computers lowered the price (all by exactly...
• 2005-10-14 Sound, microphones, all computers are crap #hardware
  Apparantly all I do these days is complain. Well, so be it, here is the next installment: I attached a microphone - actually I found two microphones and tried...
• 2005-09-06 Recording video rant #hardware
  I've wanted to record video occationally on my computer for quite a while. A long time ago I had to have Windows installed to be able to use a Rainbow Runner...
• 2005-06-06 Bill Gates in his Porsche, meet LINUX #debian #hardware
  Fun story. In other news, it seems Transmeta is going out of business. Whoops, good thing I got my Sharp PC-CV50F in time :-) And SlashDot also reports that...
• 2005-02-06 Amiga 2000 #hardware
  I found an Amiga 2000 in a pile of garbage, brought it home and peeked inside of it. It is quite ambly equipped for such a box. Now I just need to find some...
• 2004-10-24 Colour of connectors #hardware
  Do you always forget what the colours around the different connectors on your computer mean? It's part of the PC99 Standard - and here is a nice colour-connector...
• 2001-07-28 C-433 -> P3-800 #hardware
  The last month or so the trusty old Celeron 433 processor has begun to feel a little slow. I'm not sure whether the AMD-processors still (ever?) require a larger...
• 2001-02-20 "X-terminal" assembled... #hardware
  ..."Mission accomplished", the ground crew reports to the tower. Without mentioning beating up a defective diskdrive and ending up scavenging a drive from...