Posts by Colin Dean

Quote:1) Do you currently own an SSD? Are you planning on purchasing one or more in the near future? Yes, a first-gen Kingston 128 GB SSD used as my game storage drive. Makes my games load pretty fast. I've got an older computer (AMD X2...

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn Not sure if you can remove the GPU on this model. if not just try baking the whole board. ...what? Can you provide details or perhaps a link to a tutorial? This would be the first time I've heard of...

I came into the possession of a (vintage?) NP3880-V from a friend who bought it circa 2004-2005. I'd like to use it as a mobile server of sorts, given that it's got a low power processor and just enough RAM for my purposes (Minecraft,...

It will be a long time until we see perfect compatibility. In fact, Win32 will be long replaced by Win64 by the time Wine gets up to full Vista compatibility. Windows will probably also be up to version 9 or 10.

www.system76.com An Ubuntu laptop retailer so good that it has an official subforum on www.ubuntuforums.org.

I saw that, but I'm skeptical of it. How is it different from Wine-Doors?

How about a ~10 year old data handling bug in Microsoft Jet, the database engine behind Access 97-2003? I wish I still had the bug ID--I encountered it when updating an Access-based program that shared data between a PDA and a desktop....

If you can install stuff on the Windows machines to which you'd be connecting this drive, then format with two partitions: a small (25 MB) partition with the IFS drivers for Windows, then use ext3 or ext2 on the remainder. If you...

Check out which driver the GMA X3100 uses. I've not seen that GMA model previously. If it uses the same driver as the GMA 965, then it's probably been blacklisted because of buggy support in Compiz for it. You might be better off...

I participated in the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's Give One Get One program, in which one could donate $400 and receive one of the small XO laptops while financing one for a child. I received my XO this weekend and wrote a...