My iRiver H340 battery has been dying for a while now. So, as a birthday present, I went ahead and bought a replacement battery.

Fortunately, licketysplitauctions on ebay carries batteries for the H340. I ordered a 2200 mAh battery for the princely sum of $15.99, plus $4.49 shipping. The battery arrived quickly, but I only got around to ( Read more... )

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Took the eee pc to school today. The network-wallahs were very impressed ( Read more... )

Just as I predicted I now have a brand-new Asus eee pc just in time for the joys of exam week! As a matter of fact, I'm typing this update on it right now ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about getting a new battery for my iriver H340. I like the player, and rockbox is working really well. The stock 1700 mAh battery isn't holding much of a charge any more, and I know of places that'll sell me a suitable 2200 mAh battery for not a lot of money. The additional capacity would be more than welcome, and it would give me a ( Read more... )

I am pleased to report the (thus-far) successful build of my new computer, hostname sputnik. Ubuntu Feisty installed and booted, and I'm letting it burn-in a few hours before I get to work getting the OS up to date and tweaking things to my liking.

BabyBro had a school project that required him to keep all his work on a floppy disk ( Read more... )

Mullah Atari (a.k.a. blackaces) has reposted the latest Apple Mac/PC ad on his blog. For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, PC is taken over by his emokid users, as Mac looks serenely on.

This is more true than Apple is willing to believe or accept. According to a report on C|net, nearly half of all Apple users are aged 55 or overThis shouldn’t ( Read more... )

I'm writing this entry on my beat-up Thinkpad 570e. I have yet to get APM suspend/hibernate running on it properly....it's up there on my 'things to do' list, but I'm getting to the point that I don't really want to mess with a running system ( Read more... )

The more advanced our technology becomes, the more we will resemble our midieval forebears, for which the whole world was miraculous ( Read more... )