rudyamid on November 23rd, 2011 at 10:49 am

Just got the latest Ultrabook offering from Toshiba, the Portégé Z835.  It’s the light weight, very slim, full functioning, and affordable Notebook PC. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.  I need it mainly for portability because I need to have a PC ready while traveling.  The specs are quite impressive for it’s [...]

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rudyamid on June 27th, 2009 at 7:10 am

I hate cables.  For years, I’ve been struggling with managing cables at the back of my computers.  I’m a non-Mac (PC) dude, so I always have a bunch of unsightly cables.  In fact, all of my electronics suffer from messy cables madness. From the pictures below,  I’ve been trying to get keep them neat and [...]

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rudyamid on April 19th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

I finally got my tax refunds, and already I’ve been spending them on toys (consumer spending helps the economy, right?)  Here are some stuff I bought recently to upgrade my electronics: Got a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite U400-ST3301. It’s a relatively light weight (4.5 Lbs) with a 13.3″ LCD screen. The lightness is important [...]

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rudyamid on December 2nd, 2008 at 3:17 pm

Since I’m no longer running my own Linux server to host this blog, I have a spare machine to play with.  Red Hat just released Fedora Core 10, I thought I try and upgrade my FC9 system, and see what changes they’ve made. As expected, I could upgrade the OS by just booting the DVD.  [...]

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rudyamid on September 9th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

I completed my PC hardware setup.  Last weekend, I concentrated a good chunk of time to get the software up and running.  My Operating System of choice now is Windows Vista Ultimate.  I’m planning to upgrade my PC to 8Gb of RAM, so I’ll need the 64-bit support to take advantage of it.  Initially, I [...]

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