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posted Friday, February 08, 2008 2:19 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Fire :-)

Following on from this I've had a couple of incidents now where I've closed the lid on my laptop ( which is set to Sleep when I close the lid ). I've then dropped it into my bag only to find ( say ) 20 minutes later that there's a lot of heat coming Read More

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posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:29 AM by mtaulty :: 3 Comments

LinkSys USB200M

My media center PC has a problem. It's a Shuttle PC, I've blogged the specs on this website before but I think the base spec is SN85G4V2 if I remember correctly. It's all fine and Media Center works better with Vista than it did with XP for me so that's Read More

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posted Monday, January 14, 2008 4:50 PM by mtaulty :: 2 Comments

Looking for a NAS

I've been looking for a simple home NAS box and I'm realising that there's a heck of a lot of choice out there and quite a lot of devices have arrived in the last 6 - 12 months (and at the recent CES). I never thought I'd buy a NAS for home. The primary Read More

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posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:17 AM by mtaulty :: 8 Comments

Compaq nc8430, Vista, ATI, Driver, Blue Screen

My laptop is an HP Compaq NC8430. It's got a T7400 running at 2.00GHz, 4GB of RAM and a 200GB 7200 rpm disk in it. It's a nice laptop and one of the better ones that I've had although the screen could definitely be brighter and (like all changes of laptop Read More

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