Month: March 2016
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Mint here we come
Well finally I have put my main computer onto Mint. The preparation was mainly making the various backups to ensure I don’t lose any data on switching over. As you can imagine it is not always straightforward especially if doing something a little out of the ordinary. Some of these different elements in my setup…
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Enable Presentation Mode and Mobility Center on a desktop computer
Presentation Mode is something I am trying out with Windows 10 desktops that are permanently connected to a projector. Microsoft don’t seem to have got their head around the idea that people will use a desktop to do presentations, and so these capabilities are disabled by default on a desktop. But they can be enabled…
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Mislabelled ADATA Pen Drives
So another ripoff by the look of it. I have two Adata pen drives that are reported at less than the labelled size. Even if we understand that there are two different ways of defining what a gigabyte is (one uses 10^3 as the multiplier and the other uses 2^10), the size of these devices…
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Another Intel rip off – Core CPUs
One of the annoying things about Intel is how much they mix and match features on their CPUs to try to screw you into paying more money. It gets that you have to drill right down into the specs of individual CPUs to make sure you are getting the features you need, for example virtualisation…