Archive | August, 2006

03 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

External video cards

Jeremy Reimer talks about the possibility of external video cards at Ars Technica.

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03 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

MythTV is back up and running

Sometime over the weekend the power supply in my MythTV box went south. It didn’t completely die, but the fans started to sound really bad. So I figured it would be a good idea to power it down until I could swap in a spare.
Tonight I finally put the spare in (an old Enermax 431W) [...]

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02 August 2006 ~ 9 Comments

Another dissatisfied Dell customer

I ordered a Dell XPS 400 desktop on 7/10/06. It shipped on 7/13/06, and after one failed delivery attempt (I wasn’t home to sign for it) I picked it up at the UPS depot in York on 7/18/06.
I brought it home, promptly hooked it up, and powered it on.
The first thing I noticed was [...]

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01 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Django 0.95 released

Congrats to the Django team on the release of version 0.95!
Quoth Adrian:
This is the sexiest version of Django ever. It would take another six months to list all of the improvements, feature additions and bug fixes we’ve put into this release, but the release notes document attempts to list the big changes. The overall theme [...]

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