Recent content by S. Wong

What's a snow day? California doesn't even get rain this year

Thinkpads are one of the easiest computers for DIY since they provide the full documentation online for FRUs For the W520, here's the complete manual http://support.lenovo.com/kr/ko/docs/MIGR-76854 I don't know about purchasing a reliable board, but if you're handy, the instructions will...

My Thinkpad T61's HDD died, so the question is what should I use for replacement? Purpose: I'm a TPM consultant, so clients aren't always super quick with providing one of their computers for me to do my work. Home computer for movies, internet, any real computing that I shouldn't be doing...

Skripka, thanks for the info on Linux Mint. If I'm doing this, I want to avoid proprietary :) Nightmike, thanks for letting me know about Arch & Deepin. I haven't heard of XFCE, Flutebox, nor LXDE. I'll be checking all of those out

Just to be clear, this will be a spare computer, so learning a new interface isn't terrible. I worked on an Ubuntu environment years ago, the GUI was only ok. The most annoying thing to me was that to do anything I had to sudo. sudo mount /dev/usb0 /mnt/usb0 sudo chmod 777 /mnt/usb0...

Going to be installing linux on a Thinkpad T61 soon, and was looking around for recommendations on a modern linux GUI. Any recommended distros are welcome too. Last time I ran linux as a home computer, it was back in the days of Gentoo 2, so KDE and Gnome were... primitive. Generally when I...

I was so hoping to see him shot at, and for him to threaten the attacker with the Secret Service

I'm running Windows 7, and gave my fiance a windows 7 laptop for Christmas, to replace her aging macbook pro. She's looks at the start menu search, but isn't able to search files, just applications, and would like that fixed. Looking around for a solution, I see that MS had this for vista...

sorry about the hard to read format. no way to enter a table that I can figure out

installed and running on the new ssd. its a bit faster than the old ssd. as I can't post pix of the crystal disk mark, I'll do it inline: Test Samsung SSD 128gb Liteon SSD 128gb Sequential Read (MB/s) 211.47 226.279 Sequential Write (MB/s) 124.386 201.514 Random Read...

Bump No one in the [H]ord? Well, when I receive it, I'll let ya'll know what I find about it

I'm receiving a Dell SSD (DPN: K11MF) to replace my SSD as part of a dell Part Dispatch warranty issue. It appears that the Dell drive is an OEM LiteOn SSD. What I've found: LiteOn model: LCT-128M3S Controller: Marvel 88SS9174 SATA: 3gb/s Does anyone have experience with this or...

He's great. And if I had a farm that I lived on, I would do this every year :)

RocketTech, That Dewalt router is awesome, I may have to check into that for myself... Scott, the Cisco WiFi is great. Under $100, business class, vpn, etc. And its a business class, not something they're going to say "we can pick that up from Fry's" /usr/home, I checked out...

/usr/home, Features, Requirements, & Price: sufficiently secure to enable guests to log on when they're at the office (mostly the kids/grandkids, as its a family business), powerful enough to access anywhere in the 6 room office (maybe 1500 sq ft). Minimal management, as they only need one...