Category: Hardware
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Good use of technology!
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Google DC
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Macbook Air vs Macbook Pro
While my 2010 Macbook Pro is at the Apple Repair shop for a (most likely) faulty GPU I borrowed a Macbook Air from Christophe. These are my random thoughts about it: It’s light. Very light. My bag is now too big and I can barely feel it hanging at my shoulder. It’s light. Very light.…
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Nexus 4 red light of death (2)
To continue my story, I replaced the battery with a new, and what appears to be a genuine LG battery (if not, then those Chinese are getting good at it). It worked and booted, but the battery got drained in ~8 hours (100% to 0%). And it felt a tiny bit warm on the cover,…
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Nexus 4: Red light of death
On Thursday night I used my Nexus 4 as GPS (as I always do — it’s my main navigation device, so Google, please bring back a usable navigation app pretty plx!) to drive from Brussels to Antwerp (~40 minutes). I had about 60% of battery left when I turned on the GPS. I tend to…
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Best charger. Ever.
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Realtek ethernet card not working on Linux
[ 0.184110] pci 0000:04:04.0: [10ec:8139] type 0 class 0x000200 [ 3.822258] 8139cp: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) [ 3.822281] 8139cp 0000:04:04.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too [ 3.822574] 8139too: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 [ 3.822625] 8139too 0000:04:04.0: Chip not responding, ignoring board…
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Munin + Raspberry Pi + temperature
Quick hack to get Munin to graph the cpu temperature. First of all, install Munin and make sure it’s working. Then follow these steps: 1) We’ll use cron to write the current temp to a log file. We do this because I wasn’t able to get Munin to directly execute the command (error: temp.value VCHI initialization…
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Home made TimeMachine
This. Used my Raspberry Pi, with an USB disk as TimeMachine. Another disk as NAS/storage. It’s just quite slow… Not sure whether it’s my WiFi or RPi that can’t keep up. But for now, it’s working.