After checking out the market carefully and considering all the pro’s and con’s of the various available models I decided to purchase a netbook last night. I’ve been looking at this nifty little mini laptops for quite a while now, but couldn’t justify to myself that I actually ‘needed’ one. That is, until I unloaded […]
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From the moment Google announced its Android OS for mobile phones it quite appealed to me. I’m currently quite happy with my Nokia N95 8GB, but still… 😉 The HTC Magic, currently available over here in Norway is not quite my style though… I prefer my phones to be black! 😉 I also want a
Android OS – perhaps time for a new phone? Read More »
I was installing a new Dell Vostro 420 desktop at the office this morning.One of the first things I do in the BIOS is to enable POST messages, so I can see when there’s something wrong. That resulted in the following boot screen: Hmm, what is wrong with this picture…? Perhaps that the BIOS has
EVALUATION COPY, NOT FOR SALE… Read More »
I know I already mentioned this last September, but I have now finally ordered all the components to replace/upgrade my little Linux server. The final component list is as follows: The parts could arrive as early as tomorrow, so hopefully I get some time this weekend. And I also still have to make the final
New system – at last… Read More »
Well, it took a little over 4 days, but Telenor (and the good people of Relacom) has finally fixed my ADSL/ISDN. It broke down on friday at 10:05 local time, and it took them until this morning to fix it. First of course they came with the usual ‘It’s your ISDN box. We’ll ship you
I’m back online! :-) Read More »
And the time is… 1234567890! Well, at least for those of you who use Unix & Linux (or any other system that has its clock based on number of seconds elapsed since midnight (UTC) January 1st, 1970, not counting leap seconds) (This is not 100% accurate, since UTC didn’t exist yet back in 1970) Other