Archive for April, 2006
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
USB GPS Problem Solved
Okay, so a few months back I purchased one of these USB GPS to use with my laptop for road trips and wardriving. It seemed to simple enough, it’s a Prolific 2303 USB to serial adapter chip coupled to a NMEA GPS receiver, but I was having some weird issues where it would sporadically stop [...]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Real Estate and Parties
Well, I decided that paying off my rent debt was more important than a new laptop, so I’ve done the financially resposible thing and put more tax return toward that. Now I just have to pay off a couple smaller debts and I’ll be debt free once again. Yay!
In other news, the apartment building we’re [...]
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Tempting Laptop - HP nx6125
Okay, so it’s got 1GB of RAM, a Turion 64, a 1400×1050 15″ screen, it looks like Linux will run on it, and it’s within my price range. Can someone please point out the glaringly obvious reason I don’t want one of these?
