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Network shares should be trivial, but sometimes they go wrong for incredible reasons: – the server side password changes and your computer keeps trying to use old wrong one, – the server side contents change but some caching is going on and you can’t see the changes, – you can ping resources, but Windows Explorer [...]

One week or so ago, I contacted Dyson’s support and posted about it. The time has come to answer my own question, and the answer could hardly be more positive: in 1 week time, all the problems I mentioned were solved, with Dyson sending replacement parts without any cost and always with low latency feedback. [...]

I had a terrible paper jam on my Oki C5600N, due to a sudden power failure. I have to say thank you to some very specific instructions found on this great PDF – it saved my day http://www.german-parts.de/oki_manual/paperjam/stau_c5000.pdf stau_c5000.PDF

After the failure of my 27 months old XFX 8800 Ultra, I bought an ATI 5970 VGA card, which is impressive hardware on paper, yet served by very imature drivers. This card performs great on 3D games but is miserable on “simple” 2D desktop applications, namely for video – and I am a very intense video [...]

Minutes ago, on 2010–01–27, Apple’s Steve Jobs presented the IPAD – a tablet PC. As a write, the presentation still goes on, no price quote as been given, and very few people actually used the device, which it looks to me like Compaq’s Tablet TC1000, nearly 8 years later… The IPAD’s screen is smaller (9.7 inches [...]

1. Introdução e descrição O Marantz NR1501 é um “AV Receiver” compacto. Neste caso isto significa que é um amplificador áudio de 7.1 canais, com fichas para a ligação de equipamentos de vídeo, e um sintonizador de rádio AM/FM integrado, tudo num corpo com 9.5 cm de altura e 35 cm de fundo. Estes números [...]

1. Introdução e descrição O Creative Gigaworks T3 é um sistema de som 2.1, orientado aos utilizadores de computadores, que pretendam um som de qualidade superior à possível com as pequenas colunas activas comuns, sem entrarem na complexidade e na despesa que um sistema de alta-fidelidade clássico representa, com o seu amplificador dedicado e as [...]

I still use Windows XP, not Windows MCE or the awful VISTA. It happens that XP needs some tweaking to recognize the infrared receiver/sender (or blaster, if your prefer), that comes with most Hauppauge TV boards. By default, XP won’t recognize the device. After searching for this issue on the Internet, using the string “USB\VID_0609&PID_0334\PA070813125743D”, [...]

With the recent slump in memory and cpu prices, I decided to spend some money on new gear for my personal computer.My options were: the Intel Q9650 (4 cores, 12MB shared cache, 3 GHz, CORE2 QUAD technology) and 8 GB of DDR2 PC2–8000 RAM, in the form of 4x 2GB sticks, from GSKILL. In less [...]