Posted in Computers, General rambling on Jan 26th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s official. I’ve just about maxed out my trusty Satellite Pro 4600 (which goes by the moniker ‘tiger.homenet.philpem.me.uk’ when it’s online, but that only works inside my LAN). Here’s the spec as of 9PM tonight: 1GHz Pentium III Mobile CPU, 100MHz frontside bus 512MB PC133 SDRAM (IBM-branded, made by Micron Technology, yum – bought on [...]
Posted in Computers, Repair Tips on Jan 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yep, my Satellite Pro 4600 is acting up again. This time the LCD inverter (the second one I fitted) has gone intermittent. I’ve resoldered the two step-up transformers and the piezo transformer, so hopefully I’ve got the problem sorted this time. Of course, if the screen cuts out on me again, I reserve the right [...]
Posted in General rambling on Jan 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Some days I wonder why I bother. One of the assignments I’ve got to do for uni is a bit of software re-engineering work. Basically, it’s a game that demonstrates a load of graph-traversal stuff, and you’re supposed to find a way to grade the games on ‘ease of playability’ (how easy is it to [...]
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