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Replacement seagate drive

After my recent hard drive failure, someone suggested I go to the seagate website and type in it’s serial number to see if it was still under warranty. Sure enough it was under warranty until 2010 (must have been a 5 year warranty). Anyway, I followed the instructions to RMA the drive, and wrapped it [...]

The dreaded failing backlight

My Thinkpad T42 is getting quite old now and well used. A week or so back it started having a pinkish tinge to the screen when you turned it on or resumed it. The pink colour eventually disappeared after about 30 seconds and became the usual white. However, last Saturday the backlight decided to fail [...]

slackware 12.0 again

So my switch back to slackware 12 went quite well on the thinkpad 600x, so I thought I’d do the same on the T42. I actually tried updating Archlinux on the T42 the other day. It told me it wanted to apply 177MB of updates. Thats just a bit too silly. So I installed Slackware [...]

remote cups printing on OS X

I have an Epson CX3500 multifunction printer/scannner/copier thing. Its spends most of it’s time with one ink tank requiring replacement. I should get rid of it, but it allows me to make excuses to go to my local Dick Smith Electronics store. Anyway, I have this USB CX3500 connected to my Debian Etch box and [...]

Never ending updates

I’ve been using Archlinux on my two Thinkpads here for quite some time now. Its generally been OK. It’s quite quick and configurable without forcing Gnome or KDE in your face. It has a package manager and everything seems to be compiled for i686 or better. One of the reasons I started using it was [...]

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