“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Apr 3rd, 2008
I made a great purchase today. One of the things that has annoyed me is that the USB connection with my Olympus camera is slow on loading photos into the PC. The other day I was in the ACER Computer store and I noticed an internal card reader.
It accepts all current camera memory chips and [...]
Posted in Technology on Mar 30th, 2006
Yesterday, I decided that the new PC had been online long enough and I could take my older PC and turn it into a Linux box. When I did the install my hard drive started failing. I could hear a slight squeak every time it moved the access arm. Before I was able to complete [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 25th, 2006
I was just looking at some of the statistics related to the search phrases that have brought visitors to Chiriqui Chatter. I can understand some of the searches and the visitors probably got information related to their search. However others most likely were disappointed and I would imagine have never returned. Let me describe some [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 10th, 2006
I really don’t have much on my agenda for today. I plan on finishing the new PC today. I got a new LG DVD and floppy drive with a black faceplates and an extra case fan from Alex at INFOX that I need to install. Following that I will probably just take it easy and [...]
Posted in Panama Journal, Technology on Mar 3rd, 2006
After a few frustrating days of working with Linux on the new motherboard, I decided to take a new approach. It seemed a shame to dedicate the most power I have to Linux and not take advantage of all the increased memory, improved video, improved audio, increased speed and built-in firewall that I had on [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 1st, 2006
All stores should be open after eleven this morning. I saw no reason to get out into the fray this year. I just played with the PC systems.
I am still not able to configure the Linux system without problems. I don’t know if it is the system or the user. One would expect it is [...]
Posted in Technology on Feb 10th, 2006
Yesterday, I did receive the following reply from the ASUS BIOS Department:
I AM SORRY FOR THE INCONVIENCE, I HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE OFFICE ALL WEEK. PLEASE PROVIDE ME WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION.
NAME
SHIPPING ADDRESS
PHONE NUMBER
MODEL OF MOTHERBOARD
THANKS!
SARAH M HOLLIS
ASUS TECHNOLOGY
HEAD OF BIOS DEPARTMENT
(502)995-0883 EXT. 7172
I guess I am happy that she was on vacation for [...]
Posted in Panama Journal, Technology on Feb 9th, 2006
After solving the problem of upgrading the BIOS, SuSE 10.0 went on without a problem. It took about an hour to load all of the updates that have been issued since I purchased version 10.0 of SuSE. The one area that will take some time to get operational will be to get sound activated. I [...]
Posted in Panama Journal, Technology on Feb 8th, 2006
Not getting any response from ASUS sent me back to the Internet to search for solutions. I found a couple of entrys that said that some people had luck downloading the BIOS and using the ASUS EZ Flash Utility. When you look up the new BIOS it specifically says not to use EZ Flash. I [...]
Posted in Panama Journal, Technology on Feb 8th, 2006
Lets see now. The ASUS BIOS Department doesn’t answer their phone. The ASUS BIOS Department doesn’t respond to email sent to the address they put on their recorded message. The URL on the recorded message to purchase new chips doesn’t work. Just how is one supposed to get any support from a company like this? [...]
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