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17 Sep, 2006

Recent gadgets

Posted by: yy In: Personal Computing

New acquisitions:

A new 19″ widescreen LG Flatron (LG-194WT) LCD monitor to replace the trusty Viewsonic CRT monitor that I have been using for over 4 years. Time to retire it and reclaim my desk space…
5.5G 80GB Ipod to hold my entire Tango music collection!

29 Apr, 2006

Online programming books

Posted by: yy In: Personal Computing

Here is a huge list of programming books available online (and mostly free) to file away for one of those rainy days when I can work on some personal programming projects. At last count the list includes 345 titles, and rising…

22 Feb, 2006

To Mac or not to Mac?

Posted by: yy In: Personal Computing

After returning from the recent Machine Learning Summer School in Australia, my itching to become a Mac user has gotten even stronger*. For a start, there were many Mac Powerbook users at the Summer School (presenters and attendees alike). And, let’s face it, the Powerbooks are cool…

31 Jan, 2006

Fruit picking

Posted by: yy In: Personal Computing

Since it’s probably kind of obvious that I have been spending much time diagnosing and ensuring some stability in my Windows PC, I may as well mention that I have also been looking to get my hands on a cheap Mac system to play with. In fact, I was close to spending some money on [...]

31 Jan, 2006

Fingers crossed

Posted by: yy In: Personal Computing

The problems (as I wrote here, here and here) I have been having lately with my PC at home seem to be finally over! Finger crossed…
My theory is that when I removed a faulty harddisk recently - the time when all subsequent instability issues seemed to have started - I had inadvertently left hanging a [...]



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