Archive for the ‘ hardware ’ Category
My1 long-departed XBox 360 was delivered to me at work yesterday! In celebration, I finally beat “Misirlou” on Expert, leaving only “Free Bird” in the way of my Guitar Hero II supremacy (I’ve actually beaten “Free Bird” on Expert once in Free Play mode, but if it didn’t happen in Career mode, it may as [ READ MORE ]
I’m having a hard time with hardware these days. Last week my new motherboard turned out to be defective (but was promptly replaced under warranty). This weekend the windshield on our new car developed a large crack, necessitating a whole new windshield (due to arrive sometime next week). Now, it appears the latest Xbox 360 [ READ MORE ]
New motherboard arrived today and is installed and working as expected. Kudos to TigerDirect.ca for their customer support. Getting a replacement board was an entirely painless process (well, except for the having to take everything apart bit)[ READ MORE ]
I’m posting this from my new PC. So far I’ve tried out Supreme Commander and Dark Messiah of Might & Magic and both run beautifully. I’m excited to reinstall Oblivion and see how it looks with the new setup. Alas, everything is not as wonderful as I would like and I’m probably going to have [ READ MORE ]
Monday I ordered my early birthday present from TigerDirect (discounted by my personal account manager, since they seem to have a very loose definition of “Business Account”). Hopefully by tomorrow I’ll be unwrapping and assembling: An EVGA nForce 680i SLI Socket 755 Motherboard An Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz Processor An EVGA GeForce [ READ MORE ]
So it turns out that the hard drive I was trying to mount in the enclosure I’d bought was being sneaky: it behaved normally just long enough for me to write a post about the enclosure being broken, mount the drive internally, and return the enclosure to the store. Then it stopped working entirely. I [ READ MORE ]
I swear I’ve got some supernatural effect on computer hardware that causes it to want to make things as difficult as possible for me. Since we upgraded to digital cable, our PVR box has been sitting unloved and unused in the spare bedroom because we don’t really have the space or the inclination to set [ READ MORE ]
Just on a whim today I put the battery back in my old phone – the one that went through the washing machine – and to my surprise it started up and proceeded to start looking for a signal. Apparently it just needed a couple days to dry out. It never found a signal, though [ READ MORE ]
Interested in making custom ringtones out of your favourite MP3s for you Motorola KRZR? Here’s all you have to do: Use the Motorola Phone Tools software that came with your phone to make a < 20-second clip of your favourite tune and save it as a new MP3 Send the new MP3 to your phone [ READ MORE ]
“Hacked” seems like too strong a word for what little was involved – deleting a single file so that the phone would regenerate it when it rebooted – but my phone now recognizes my custom-made Kashmir ringtone. I’ll post the details later. It was really surprisingly easy and free of potentially phone-wrecking actions[ READ MORE ]