An excellent 3-part series on the boot up process of modern day computers, focusing on “Linux, Windows, and Intel processors.” Very worthwhile reading.
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Feb 07
Upgrading Mac OS X
Recently, I was helping someone to upgrade her Mac – not that I am an expert by the way, but simply because I have been using a Powerbook (yes, the obsolete machines… 
) for the past year and have taken more interest in Macs consequently. The following are some resources I found, which hopefully can help others from getting lost in the updating/upgrading maze.
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15
Oct 06
Preventive action
After hearing some rather worrying tell-tale sounds* coming from my PC last night – specifically, from the harddisk with the Windows operating system – I quickly made up my mind to replace it today. After all, the said harddisk is about 3 years old. Unlike all the problems I had in the past when hardware failure always occurred at the wrong time, hopefully I am doing the right thing to head off any impending problems. It goes without saying that I then spent the rest of the day reinstalling all my softwares…
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17
Sep 06
Recent gadgets
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!
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Apr 06
Online programming books
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…
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