We have many, many computers in the On Everything household, and I recently set them all up to run Seti@Home and Einstein@Home using Berkeley’s Boinc software. Most of them are just sitting idle most of the time, so why not do something useful with them, right?
The software installed & ran splendidly on most of [...]
I had to reboot one of my computers, which a pretty rare occurrence around here.
The machine is a few years old Dell Dimension e520.
The problem: The computer wouldn’t reboot. After running through a little RAID dialog, the computer just hung, right after showing the message “Press Ctrl-I to enter configuration utility”.
The solution: I [...]
Got a broken Dell CD or DVD drive?
You’re not alone.
In my home, we currently have 6 Dell desktop systems, 5 of them have a broken CD or DVD drive. (Last I checked, that number was 4. But I just went to use one that *used* to work and found that now, [...]
My status as a business owner scored me a free copy of Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition. Because of all of the terrible things I’ve heard about Vista, I’ve kept it sitting on a shelf – until today. My morning was free, so I thought I’d install Vista on a Dell Inspiron 5150 [...]
