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the kengell chronicles: Acer Aspire One boot time less than 30 seconds
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Monday, October 27, 2008. Acer Aspire One boot time less than 30 seconds. Another reason to buy an Acer Aspire One is the quick boot time. In a recent New York Times Technical article: In a New Age of Impatience, Cutting Computer Start Time. It is the black hole of the digital age — the three minutes it can take for your computer to boot up, when there is nothing to do but wait, and wait, and wait some more before you can log on and begin multitasking at hyper-speed. Why wait for the next generation.
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the kengell chronicles: NIST Engineers Discover Fundamental Flaw in Transistor Theory
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Monday, May 25, 2009. NIST Engineers Discover Fundamental Flaw in Transistor Theory. A reprint from The National Institute for Standards Tech Beat (May 20th, 2009):. Those days are ending, says NIST’s Jason Campbell, who has studied the fluctuations between on-off states in progressively smaller transistors. The theory, known as the elastic tunneling model, predicts that as transistors shrink, the fluctuations should correspondingly increase in frequency. Campbell, who credits NIST colleague K.P....Curre...
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the kengell chronicles: Morris Worm - two decades later - little has changed
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Sunday, November 09, 2008. Morris Worm - two decades later - little has changed. It was November 1988 and I was an undergrad at Colorado State University. When the Morris Worm. Started hitting computers on campus. I remember the excitement in the Physics lounge as we started to discuss and reverse engineer the virus. The worm infected BSD based operating systems by exploiting buffer overruns using the gets. 160;function call in the utilities fingerd. Directories, strange entries in /var/log/. Etc  ...
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the kengell chronicles: USB Mouse on Acer Aspire One
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Monday, October 27, 2008. USB Mouse on Acer Aspire One. I recently tested the functionality of a USB mouse attached to my Acer Aspire One (AA1). I attached a Microsoft Optical Mouse Blue USB and PS/2 Compatible. Mouse and started the AA1 without issue. Both the left and right mouse buttons worked as did the scroll wheel and center mouse mouse button (scroll wheel). The output from from dmesg is:. Usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev. Usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2. Labels: Acer Aspire One.
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the kengell chronicles: Microsoft Windows is *not* an Operating System
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Friday, May 01, 2009. Microsoft Windows is *not* an Operating System. As for me. I'm thankful my personal computers and laptops are running FreeBSD. Long live the BSD Foundation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Currently working in Chicago writing software for the financial markets after a decade or more working in the high energy physics world. View my complete profile. FreeBSD 11.0-RC2 Available. Do quantum spin liquids exist? Niels Bohr outsmarts the Nazis.
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the kengell chronicles: Free Network Attached Storage - FreeNAS
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Friday, December 05, 2008. Free Network Attached Storage - FreeNAS. I recently installed FreeNAS. 160; 0.69RC2 (Kralizec). On an HP Pavillion 7915. The install was the easiest server product I ever installed and worked flawlessly right out of the box. Here is what I did to add extra network attached storage. Server specifications for the HP Pavillion 7915 are:. I burned the 0.69RC2 (Kralizec). ISO onto a CD and started the Pavillion. The boot and install is very similar to a FreeBSD. FreeNAS is a free ...
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the kengell chronicles: Acer Aspire One - painless tsclient/rdesktop install
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Friday, November 28, 2008. Acer Aspire One - painless tsclient/rdesktop install. I recently installed Terminal Server Client (tsclient) and Remote Desktop (rdesktop) on my Acer Aspire One. Here's a little background on what I did to get remote access to the Microsoft Windows servers in my data-center from my Acer Aspire One netbook. The complete installation information is at this. 160;Google Site. . Is a front end for rdesktop. And other remote desktop tools. The Install in Brief:. Thanks for the howto!