Last night, I had to scramble for my portable harddrive to salvage what I could from my old laptop. The harddrive was making some absolutely horrible grinding and scraping noises, I’d never heard anything like it! I copied a bit of music I had downloaded, some wallpapers, and a couple of scripts. They are all [...]
Filed in Computing, under Computing, Distro Hopping, Laptop, Linux on July 4, 2008
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I had the wonderful idea of cleaning out my laptop earlier. I look it to bits and cleaned it. It is amazing how much dust was inside! After seeing it all I am amazed it didn’t overheat faster that it already did. The fan couldn’t actually move for thick dust between it and the processor’s [...]
Filed in Computing, under Computing, Desktop, Laptop on May 11, 2008
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Battery life. My laptop’s battery is fairly old and worn down, it has a maximum capacity of 25%, and so any way to increase its life is a chance to be siezed. On Windows the battery lasted roughly 10 minutes, a bit less. I have just been running my laptop without external power for about [...]
Filed in Linux, under Battery, Laptop, Linux, Windows on May 8, 2008
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