Archive for April, 2009

linux usb/ide

I haven’t had a lot of luck using usb hard drive enclosures with Linux. I have about three of them. And they have all ended up in the bottom of a box because basically they never worked reliably with linux. The usual scenario is;

Buy cheap usb/ide enclosure
Plug hard drive in
Plug in to linux system. Device [...]

Macbook memory upgrade

Well, I recently decided to upgrade my Macbook to 4GB of RAM. I can get by with just 2GB, but I had an excuse to spend some money before March 31. Anyway, I thought I did the right thing. I bought some Hynix RAM. I keep reading forum posts about Apple using Hynix in most [...]