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Dell, once again, falls through on supporting their poor hardware

The fan that came with my epia (from idotpc) was really loud, so I decided that I needed to replace it. After doing a bunch of searching around, it seemed that some of the best were from silenx.com. I got two of the 40mm ones, and accidentally got a 60mm one as well (50mm [...]

Somehow, there’s now what appears to be a countrywide cabal that has convinced all the supermarkets to not have any prepackaged hamburger meat sizes besides 1.25 pounds. It used to be (within the past couple years!) that they’d generally be around 1 pound, with some as low as .7 pounds and some up to [...]

For a while I had s-video working fine with my new TV (JVC HD-52Z575), but I was using the stretch feature on the TV to make the 800×600 into a 16×9 resolution, and the stretched out people were starting to get to me, so I decided I was going to figure out how to get [...]

So, I’m finally recreating my site after losing years of work. It was my own fault I lost it, but linux could have been a bit more forgiving.
1st mistake: Using linux (yeah, kind of a troll). I needed it for some of the hardware support.
2nd mistake: Using XFS. It’s so [...]