Archive for March, 2011

Paul Allen’s tearing into Gates seems familiar

March 31st, 2011 by Dave Farquhar

You’ve probably heard by now about Vanity...
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Can you set an HP slimline computer on its side?

March 30th, 2011 by Dave Farquhar

And in yet another question brought to you by a...
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Replacing old Lionel DC transformers

March 29th, 2011 by Dave Farquhar

For a while in the 1970s and 1980s, Lionel used...
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SSDs and built-in encryption–and how to enable it

March 28th, 2011 by Dave Farquhar

Update: This entry was based on preliminary...
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So why didn’t Commodore make the Commodore 128 differently?

March 27th, 2011 by Dave Farquhar

I grew up on the Commodore 128. We got one for...
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