I had a bit of trouble finding out why a computer I was working on this week kept overheating. The processor fan wasn’t too clogged up, and other than a light coating of tar from cigarette smoke it wasn’t too hard to blow out and wipe clean. Then I took off the front, where most [...]
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Computers have Lungs
October 7th, 2008 by Clme · No Comments
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My mind on my money and my money on my processor.
October 5th, 2008 by Clme · No Comments
On Friday at work I was cleaning up and refurbishing an old laptop so I could give it to a new employee when I accidentally broke a piece off of the crappy little heatsink inside. The remaining chunk of heatsink wouldn’t stay put on its own, so I reached in my pocket, pulled out a [...]
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Why Vista gets a bad reputation
September 27th, 2008 by Clme · No Comments
*phone rings* Me: I.T. Support. This is Clem. End User: Hey, ever since you gave me that new computer two months ago I’m missing the icon for %Application%. Can you put it back? Me: Wow, two months, huh? How often do you normally have to use %Application%? End User: Oh, I never use it. I [...]
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Pen Cures Cancer
May 4th, 2008 by Clme · No Comments
For many years many of us have been devotees to SETI, the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. The SETI group was based out of Berkeley and would occasionally record raw data from radio telescope arrays and then would have their volunteers (people like us) process it. You can read the Wikipedia article on SETI here. The [...]
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