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Mousing Around: Mobile Mouse with Desktop Mouse Radio
September 07, 2008 @ 8:14 pm

I travel a fair bit and use my machine on the road a lot when I do, so portability is reasonably important to me. One thing is that in the process I got really used to the small 'mobile' mice that Microsoft makes - the small Soap bar kind. I've really grown attached to this mouse and I really can't get comfortable with the monster desktop mice any more. So the small mouse works great but one of...

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New Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop - two weeks later
September 01, 2007 @ 1:24 pm

So it's now been almost two weeks since I got my new machine and I'm happy to report that things are going well. No more video problems (even though I ended up with yet another nVidia card) and the system has been rock solid. It's sad that this should astound me, but this has been one of the...

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New machine - new day
August 21, 2007 @ 1:12 pm

It's been a little quiet around here the last couple of days - that's because I got a new machine and have been buried in setting up the new box and trying to get some work done at the same time - always a fun exercise. As you probably know if you read this blog even occasionally I've been having...

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Video Drivers and Vista Updates - Some Improvements!
August 09, 2007 @ 8:57 pm

If you've followed this blog for a while you know that I've been having major, major video driver problem under Vista with my Laptop and the nVidia GO 7800 card. All sorts of problems with very frequent driver crashes and worst of all dual monitors not working at all (well, not working in native...

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Alternate Machine while waiting on Dell
March 01, 2007 @ 12:37 pm

While Dell is deciding whether they'll give me support on my laptop, I'm running on a secondary machine. This is usually my back test machine to test installations on and even though it's fairly old it's still holding up pretty good even running Vista. Still there are a few quirks that I haven't seen on the laptop...

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