The new Acer AspireRevo R3600 (Acer AspireRevo R3610-U9012) that combines a dual core Atom 330 processor with the Nvidia Ion platform was introduced at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin in September. It is just one of several interesting new nettops coming out now that will offer significantly more processing power, especially for video [...]
Entries from October 2009
Acer Revo R3600 and other dual core Atom 330 NVidia Ion nettops
October 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: Computers · Linux · Windows 7 · Windows Vista · Windows XP · software
Memory upgrades for Lenovo S10e, Aspire M5201, eMachines T6212
October 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Last month my Gateway GT4014j suddenly died and I replaced it with an Acer Aspire M5201, which came with 2 GB of memory installed. That was less than the 3 GB I had in the Gateway and it affected some very memory hungry apps I use. So three weeks later I did a memory upgrade [...]
Tags: Computers · Linux · Windows 7 · Windows Vista · Windows XP · electronics
IE7, IE8 and .exe files on network drive: “The publisher could not be verified…”
October 8th, 2009 · No Comments
I recently upgraded a Windows XP machine from Internet Explorer 6 to IE 8. Since then I’ve been getting warnings whenever I wanted to run any .EXE file that doesn’t use code signing off a network drive.
My main browser on that machine is FireFox, but that doesn’t matter. The warning that comes up is the [...]
Tags: Windows Vista · Windows XP · software
Toyota and Lexus floor mat recall (unintended acceleration problems)
October 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Toyota Motors and and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently announced a recall of 55,000 floor mats for various Toyota and Lexus models following an investigation into a crash of a Lexus ES 350 on 28 August 2009 that killed a 45 year old police officer and three family members. The car [...]
Tags: cars