Computer bits – Page 27

July 12, 2010July 10, 2025

Cliq: Month 6

It’s been 6 months with the cell phone now. Kinda sorta remembering what the number is.

The whining on some of the Motorola Cliq forums has reached epic proportions ever since Motorola let their Q2 target for delivering the Android 2.1 upgrade slip to some unspecified date later on.

The Cliq is keeping me more in touch with things going on in the Twitter world, where before I was pretty much offline whenever I wasn’t near the computer. Kinda good sometimes.
Calendar and contacts management still remains on my T3 though, but stuff ends up going to both places.

The “ooo shiny!” factor is starting to fade. The on-screen keyboard is pretty useless. Although the Cliq does lots of cool stuff, I still find it slow and clunky compared to my T3.

July 8, 2010May 22, 2024

Fedora 13, nVidia, X and GLX oddity

Inside the new computer is an nVidia GTX260 video card, which I think is pretty spiffy. It also means I should be able to activate all the cool Compiz eye candy.

While I was running the alpha and beta versions of Fedora 13, everything with the new computer (aside from a couple of minor USB related issues) was working quite nicely. Had the nVidia drivers installed and running. The Compiz eye candy was very pretty.

And then Fedora 13 was officially released. Updated everything, grabbed the ‘official’ nVidia drivers off rpmfusion, and then the pretty eye candy was gone!

Hmm, strange. Let’s try reinstalling the drivers. No joy. Let’s try reinstalling the Fedora. No joy.

Do all the usual troubleshooting. Why is there no GLX (explaining the lack of Compiz eye candy).

A couple of kernel updates later, and still no joy.

All I have to show are some strange things being logged to the Xorg log file and no pretty eye candy. Google is of no help either. Annoying, but there is still video, and if I XRender instead of OpenGL for compositing (in KDE), I can still get a few effects. It’s all very strange.

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May 15, 2010March 24, 2024

Designed for Windows

but running Linux.

April 30, 2010March 24, 2024

The future called. I’m a winner!

Found in my email this morning

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft Corporation ,in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products,(F.P.S.) held this morning 230th November 2010 here in Jakarta-Indonesia, A winning prize of $2,500.000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) will be issued in your name.It is important to note that your award was released with the following particulars attached to it.

March 30, 2010March 24, 2024

Unboxing the new computer

The computer came in a big box containing several smaller boxes with all the bits and pieces. Well, one large bit and several smaller pieces.

A large cardboard box sitting on the floor. The box contains my new computer.

The Thermaltake Element T case. The dogs were quite intrigued.

A box containing a Thermaltake ElementT computer case

Two black labrador retrievers sniffing at a black computer case sitting on the floor

First thing I had to do was crack it open and check out the inside. Had to get past the packing foam first.

Inside the computer case filled with packing foam

The inside of the case is quite spartan compared to what’s in my current computer. A nice roomy case.

Inside the Thermaltek ElementT computer case. The motherboard, CPU cooler, video card and power supply are visible.

Looking at the upper portion of the case showing the mother board, CPU cooler and RAM slots

After poking around in the BIOS to see what there was, I set about installing Fedora 12 onto the machine. With Hyperthreading enabled, it shows up as 8 processors of computing goodness.