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iPod Nano 2G
Mystery chips, no PortalPlayer inside new iPod nano the new second-generation iPod nano has three Apple-marked chips of unknown origin and no chip from PortalPlayer. According to a Wedbush Morgan Securities report, one of the Apple-marked chips is a Samsung ARM processor, occupying the socket formerly supplied by PortalPlayer. Earlier this year, PortalPlayer warned that…
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Lu Bo Lang Restaurant ?????
“Lu Bo Lang”:http://www.lubolang.com/ Restaurant (?????) lu4 bo1 lang2 jiu3 lou2 or literally green wave porch) was one of first restaurant we ever visited in Shanghai. It is right next to the famous “Yu Gardens”:http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-2761741-yu_gardens_shanghai-i and has been host to lots of Presidents most recently Clinton. There is a huge picture there. They are famous for…
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Chinese Dell Dimension 9200
It is so hard to tell with Dell’s what you are really getting because there are really very few reviews and they are outdated as the hardware changes, still for about $1600 you can get a really amazing machine in china from Dell. Dell Dimension 9200 Product Details Here’s an analysis of what you get…
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W22n51.sys BSOD
I tried to upgrade to the latest driver on the Sony site for my VGN-TX140P and there is now something wrong, the Intel Pro Wireless application doesn’t come up and I now will get blue screen of death with a W22n51.sys stop message. Upgrading to the Intel generic driver doesn’t help. The version is 10.5.…
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Nows the time to buy a Dell in China
With Intels Core Duo 2 out and the 975P chipset, its way out in front in terms of performance. However, AMD has just dropped all their processor prices, so if you don’t overclock, at the budget level, get an Athlon X2 3800+ over a E6300 1.83GHz However, if you go up even a little bit,…
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Wifi Tools
OK, here’s the definitive set of tools that I use to make sure a wifi network is working: * “Advanced LAN Scanner”:http://www.radmin.com/products/utilities/lanscanner.php. This is super useful for figuring out what devices and computers are actually on a network. When you get to a new network run it and it will tell you what’s running and…
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Dell Dimension 9200
The Intel Core Duo 2 finally appears in the chinese market as the “Dimension 9200”:http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_9200_cn?c=cn&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn. They have a great “promotion”: right now where if you pay an extra 4000 RMB ($500), you get 2GB of memory and a 20″ monitor. Given that they make them in China, not a bad price and they deliver too!…
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Apple Announcements
“The Mercury News”:http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/15503747.htm notes Apple announced a refresh of their iPods for the fall selling season and unexpectedly, demonstrated their upcoming set top box code named iTV which looked really cool. Here is what you can now get, in rough order of importance: * Downloadable movies. They are going to do full length movies now…
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Small Business Server 2003 SP1 Notes
OK, here are the tidbits that I gathered froma quick read of the “planning”:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/plan/gsg/chptr3a.mspx guide and also there are some SBS enthusiasts like “SBS Rocks”:http://www.sbs-rocks.com/Links.htm and the very useful “Documentation by Task’:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/productdoc/topic.mspx for SBS * After you install SBS, you can *not* change the DNS name of the domain, the Netbios name or the computer…
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Motorola KRZR K1
!>http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motokrzr/images/thumb_motokrzr_k1.jpg!:http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motokrzr/They are here the next generation RAZR is now available from OEM sites. They are expensive at $400 or so, but they are coming. They are basically slightly slimmer and smaller, but the main technical features are a 2 megapixel camera, EDGE for faster data services, a MicroSD memory card so you can listen to…