Archive for December, 2007
Really Impressed with Vodacom 3G card
I purchased this card so I could connect to the internet while I am down here in South Africa and I must say I am really impressed.
While I can only get a max download of about 800kbit/sec it's still fine for most things and I can always terminal server in for stuff requiring large downloads. [...]
Trying to Downgrade a Dell?
I had a request from a company here in South Africa to downgrade a new Dell Inspiron 1720. It was not able to find a hard disk during install but I found a nice article.
In BIOS, under OnBoard Devices:
Modify the Flush Cache Module to say "Disabled"
Modify the SATA Operation from "AHCI" to "ATA"
Reboot with your [...]
SA… What day is it?
Well things have been going really nice here in SA. I have gotten over the jetlag and even getting a little work done on my Robotics talk at CodeMash. We met a few friends, did some walking at a dog park, had some sushi, went to dinner and I even saw Pauls work.
What Paul works [...]
South Africa Days 4-5
The party was a hoot. It lasted until dawn, but only 4:30 for us. This of course is making getting over jet lag a little tougher that I thought. Yesterday we went to see Michelle & Bruce's place. They just got done renovating it and it looks great. (No Pics)
Today we are going to see [...]
In South Africa – Days 1-3
Things are going fast. It's already Friday and I still have jet lag. To top it off, South Africa Airlines / Delta has lost one of our bags. Good thing we had it insured. I hope the claim process goes well.
We are having a party tonight, Wigs & White T-Shirts. I have my mullet, but [...]
Thanks Mom & Adam
Thanks for watching the house & castle while we are away. Well we are off, to South Africa. Right now we are sitting in the airport at Columbus, still an hour or so before we board the plane. All is going well excect my iPod suddenly decided it was going to loose a full charge [...]
Time to Downgrade…
I had enough…. of Vista…. I was trying to get my webcamera to work and it was just too much effort. Combined with the rest of the Vista crap, I decided to move back to XP Pro.