Back on the drugs…

Thats right, I got Linux running on my new PC! AMD Athlon 64 3200+. Not all specs are finalised. My graphics card is some brand that I never heard of but I’ll find out what exactly it is soon. My friend gave it to me and he said it was much better than the one I had.

I choose Ubuntu this time. I’m a fan of Fedora but I heard people were having a few problems lately. I love Ubuntu. Even got an Ubuntu sticker on the front of my PC. I might post some pictures later. I’m just glad to finally have a working PC. Turns out my 512mb DDR ram was bad. Plus had some other stupid problems.

Insanely Funny!

I found this video in a Slashdot comment. All I will say is that it’s a must see for any geek(thats probably anyone reading this).

BestBuy customers loosing out on sales?

Have you ever found a deal at Best Buy’s website only to travel to the store and find that the “sale” is over? Did the Best Buy employee show you “proof” on their “website”? It now seems that there are really TWO websites, and they’re identical except for the prices.

Source- The Consumerist

So it’s like this, the real website has the sale but when BestBuy employees look it up on the computer at the store, they are actually seeing a special employee page that may not have the same sale on the real website.

I’m glad I know this! The same thing happened with computer RAM. I did not confirm this but I did see it on sale the previous day on the site but when I went to the store it was “no longer on sale.” I didn’t go forth with buying it.

Al Gore uses a Palm Treo :-)

I was watching the DVD An Inconvenient Truth since my aging hippie teacher gave it to me to watch. Well while watching the film, I noticed that Al Gore uses a Palm Treo! Appears to be the Treo 700p(correct me if I’m wrong, I never owned one). I got no other info on this. I just thought I’d share. By the way, the film is great. Everyone should watch it. He really puts things together well and mentioned a lot of very good points.

Edit: It is a Cingular branded Palm Tero 650. Thanks Ryan K.

Palm Treo 680 defective?

On Palm’s support forums, 2 users have stated that their Treo 680 screens cracked on their own. It could be that there is some pressure point under the screen causing this. There was speculation that this happened on the T|C but I’m thinking that is false. The Treo 680 is more compact though so it’s quite possible.

I’m hoping Palm investigates this matter and that no more people have this problem. But it turns out well for the user Yasin who said he has recieved a replacement Treo 680. Palm doesn’t cover cracked screens but since this seems to be a defect, they did indeed cover it.

See the thread here.

Is someone plotting against me? PC problems :(

My custom built computer decided to kick the bucket no idea why. After two weeks of testing and swapping parts I gave up.

So I go to my backup PC. A 1.1ghz AMD Duron. Things didn’t go well there either! Decided to do the same crap the first PC was doing. Am I going insane? The only explanation is that someone or something doesn’t want me to use a PC (points fingers at Apple iBook) or that multiple parts don’t work. So I’m gonna have to really work on that. RAM appears to work fine. Video card appears to work fine. All my hard drives are questionable.

What I really want is access to all the media stored on my 60gb HDD. My external HDD enclosure fried months ago. I really want to upgrade my iBook’s 60gb internal HDD to 160gb and toss the old 60gb in a cheap enclosure from eBay.

Donate to the 160gb HDD fund. $139required. PayPal to Legodude522 (at) gmail (dot) com