Posted on November 2, 2009 by Brian Harrison
Since Tammy and I both got new phones not too long ago, I decided to get a bluetooth module for our computer so we could transfer photos and such wirelessly from our phones to our computer without all of the proprietary USB cabling for each phone and junk software. This also allows us to upload [...]
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Posted on November 1, 2009 by Brian Harrison
I got my free upgrade disc in so, this weekend I upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows Vista. I chose to do a complete reformat because I wanted to eliminate possibility of something going wrong . I had to back up my data, reformat and reinstall all of my programs, so all of that took [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2009 by Brian Harrison
After weeks of working on this machine off and on between other projects, I finally got it running. The hardest part was finding hardware that actually worked, but I guess this was to be expected with hardware from circa 1996. I found a PIII motherboard and processor, but the first power supply I hooked up [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2009 by Brian Harrison
After talking with Scott Tam the other day about computers and him wanting to build a computer to run Linux on, I started doing some research on Linux I found out that besides the regular installs of unbutu and others, there are multiple distros out there that are optimized for old hardware. This got me [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2009 by Brian Harrison
I by no means claim to know everything there is to know about building a computer, but after building and rebuilding several computers for work and now one for myself and having to figuring all this stuff out myself, I thought it would be helpful to have it all on one place.
You need to determine [...]
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