Hardware & Gadgets
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This section deals with computer hardware: computers, laptops, mice, keyboards etc.
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New laptop - Toshiba A200
Posted April 8th, 2008 in Hardware & Gadgets
I've had a Compaq EVO N1020v laptop/notebook for just over 5 years and the monitor has completely died on me. I like to be able to do a bit of work in the evenings while watching TV on the couch, and fortunately there are some bargain laptops/notebooks around these days. I'm not really all that fussed about mobility, battery life, weight etc because I'll really only be using it at home, so decided to go for something pretty cheap. After a little bit of looking around I bought a Toshiba A200 yesterday.
Microsoft wireless mouse stopped working on Linux
Posted October 18th, 2007 in Hardware & Gadgets and Linux/Unix/BSD (Updated October 18th, 2007)
Yesterday while I was doing some work in Adobe Photoshop in a VMWare virtual machine on my Linux KDE desktop, my Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse just suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason. At first I thought VMWare had done something funny with mouse capture so I jumped out of the virtual machine but it still wasn't working. Plugging a regular mouse with a cord into a USB port worked just fine, but the wireless mouse refused to work.
PS/2 Y Splitter on Single PS2 Port
Posted January 7th, 2004 in Hardware & Gadgets (Updated May 24th, 2007)
A PS/2 Y splitter is an adapter which lets you plug a PS2 keyboard and mouse into a single PS/2 socket in a computer. Sometimes it doesn't appear to work but all you might need to do is swap the keyboard and mouse plugs around.
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