If you need a car charger and a spare AC adapter for your Eee PC, you might want to check out “The Continental” from Incipio Technologies. I picked one up for $24.99 + shipping, but it looks like they have recently raised the price to $39.99. Still not bad considering an AC adapter [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Car charger for Eee PC
February 20, 2008Tivo Crash
February 9, 2008The family unit and I were watching the latest episode of Lost on our Tivo, and about 30 minutes into the show, our Tivo appeared to lock up and then it restarted. No big deal, I thought, it’s a computer and computers sometimes crash. After waiting a few minutes, Tivo is back up [...]
Why I dread calling tech support
February 3, 2008At my day job, I routinely call various tech support/customer service departments for a variety of software and hardware support issues. It’s usually for replacement parts or when doing a Google search fails to find a fix to a particularly strange problem I encountered. Normally, I don’t mind calling, except when it comes [...]
wicd is NOT wicked awesome
February 1, 2008I kept hearing about how much better wicd is than network-manager, especially when connecting to wireless networks. I encountered very few problems with using network-manager, except for its annoying habit of automatically connecting to open wifi networks named “linksys” without asking me first. I thought I’d give wicd a shot and see what [...]
