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Entries Tagged as 'Laptops'

ThinkPad X300 to Rival MACBook Air

February 19th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

The chinese company Lenovo bought the struggling giant IBM in 2005 and is now close to releasing the new ThinkPad X300 which is set to rival the so talked about MACBook Air. I know if you are a MAC user you will just say “pff another attempt to compete with a MAC” but [...]

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Tags: Laptops · Lifestyle · Technology



Recover Linux reiserFS with bad blocks

January 28th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Crisis normally create a great environment for quick learning. Some would say that it also exposes lack of planing, which in my experience both are equally true.
Last week I had a server’s HD die on me and I suddenly had to rescue some of the newer data that for some stupid reason I had not [...]

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Tags: Applications · Laptops · OS & Servers · Storage · quick & easy tips

Should I Fix and Repair my Laptop or Replace It?

November 16th, 2007 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

Recently my Compaq Presario v4000 completely died. On boot it would simply give me one long beep, followed by two short beeps. This appeared to be a video card problem.
In a desktop computer this would be an easy, and relatively cheap repair. One of the challenges with laptops is that in most laptops the video [...]

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Fingerprint sensor on Thinkpad T60 says “Hardware not connected”

November 3rd, 2007 by dcouper · No Comments

When I booted up my thinkpad T60 yesterday morning and tried to use the fingerprint login I got the error message that the hardware was not connected, with only 2 months left on my warranty - it was looking like I was going to have to send it back.
Before I did that however I [...]

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Wireless at McDonalds in the UK

October 10th, 2007 by Mark5 · No Comments

McDonalds have this week announced that free high-speed wireless internet is to be rolled out around their 1200 or so restaurants. This, they say, takes them to the top of the free internet hotspot providers.

Check out the details at the cunningly titled www.mcdwireless.com

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Tags: Citizen Journalism · Laptops · Mark's Bits · Networking

Connectivity problem with OLPC

September 26th, 2007 by dcouper · No Comments

The one laptop per child (OLPC) project should be gathering momentum in the coming months, and while it is without questions a noble cause - there is a rather big piece of the puzzle missing. The laptops have wifi which will enable the children using them to use the internet and telephony to connect with [...]

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