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What to do with an old laptop?

Posted on July 5, 2010 by aebrahim

After five long years using my trusted (and now extremely out of date) laptop, I’ve finally moved along to something better. Old Laptop Dell Latitude D610, Intel Pentium-M 750 (1.86GHz), 2GB RAM, 60GB HDD (using Truecrypt software FDE), 14.1″ 1400×1050 … Continue reading →

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ATI Mobility Radeon Drivers from Dell

Posted on June 2, 2008 by aebrahim

A couple of days ago I wrote about some headaches upgrading to Windows XP SP3. This was related to my ability to rotate my screen being scuttled by the SP3 update. Microsoft said I needed a driver update to restore … Continue reading →

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Windows XP SP3 Update Gotchas

Posted on May 30, 2008 by aebrahim

I took the plunge and updated my machine to Windows XP SP3 today, a good month after general release. I don’t like to install Microsoft software when it’s first released, because more often than not, there are too many unknown … Continue reading →

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