Category: tech

  • Windows 7 64bit upgrade and Intel Storage manager issues

    Windows 7 Default Desktop Originally uploaded by nopattern I just upgraded my 3 year old Dell Dimension E520 to Windows 7. I did a fresh install just to make sure there wasn’t any legacy junk from Vista hanging around. So far I’m very happy with Windows 7 so far! Its certainly faster, networking capabilities is…

  • Bigbelly the solar powered garbage Compactor

    Bigbelly Originally uploaded by Declan! I found yet another reason why I love California. While taking care of some errands yesterday I came across a strange looking garbage can. What I found is that it was actually a garbage compactor, and even cooler is that its solar powered! This is a great for the environment…

  • Apple and the OS marketshare

    MacBook Pro Originally uploaded by the_ml In the news recently I read that mac laptop sales have take something like 17% or the market. And I think mac desktops have increased 5% or something. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/08/21/apple_seeing_unprecedented_surge_in_macbook_demand.html (these stats only show purchasing habits for the past 3 months, but still interesting) anywho, looking at awstats on my…

  • Mac Tip: How to increase the size of the C: drive for XP running within OsX Parallels

    So I got an MacPro laptop with Parallels from work. While running XP under Parallels, XP keeps telling me I’m running out of space. While in XP looking at my partitions: my XP parallels install is 26GB total in size – C: partition is 8GB, and D: is 16GB I’ve been trying to figure out…