Archive for the 'hardware' Category

Rosewill RNX N100 in Ubuntu Gnu/Linux

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 by r.jimi

Here it is.
Not that impressive and from reading the reviews, it might be a cheap plastic piece of crap. I thought that mine was. I couldn’t get it to work under Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 or OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I don’t have any personal windows machines any more that aren’t virtual.
Anyway, I thought the [...]

n85, internet and fm radio

Friday, January 29th, 2010 by r.jimi

Ok, so I just started a new contract and they have a no streaming radio policy. Fair enough, it is their bandwidth.
Basically I just wanted to point out that the n85 is capable of picking up local FM stations and will even download the local station guide for you.
Additionally, any internet radio with an m3u [...]

OS X on Dell D420

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 by r.jimi

After running Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about a month on the my Dell D420, I have decided to give OS X a try.
I started here.
Ended up here.
10.5 was a bust.
10.6 works great!
The process I used was:
1. Get 10.6 disc or disc image.
2. Make an external hard drive version of it.
3. Boot from the D620SLV1 [...]