Tag: Dell
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…and the Agony of the Cheap
The Joy of Excellence, and the Agony of the Cheap Yes, this is a play on the old ABC Wide World of Sports slogan, “The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat.” I probably should have used “The thrill of quality, and the agony of the cheap.” but my site isn’t called “ThrillOfQuality”. The…
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My Turbo Boost Is Not Working…
Headline: If you are using PassMark PerformanceTest to test your i7 processor with Turbo Boost, make sure you have the latest version of their software. A bug in versions prior to build 1016 would cause Turbo Boost to stop working once you launched PerformanceTest (at least on a 64-bit machine). Strange but true story… I…
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My SSD Rocks
Technorati Tags: Intel,SSD,Dell,Hardware Headline: My new Intel 160 GB X25M SSD (Solid State Drive) is really fast! 200+ MB/sec read and 90+ MB/sec write! Background I sort of smiled when I opened up my new drive this week to see a little sticker that said, “My SSD Rocks!”. You see, I had a SSD before……
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A Tale of Two Mice
Technorati Tags: Dell,C#,.NET User Story: As a Windows 7 user of an IntelliPoint mouse I want to switch from left-handed to right-handed (and vice-versa) with a single double click. The Old Way I have a really nice mouse, but it uses IntelliPoint… ok, that’s fine. But at home I use the mouse left handed while…
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One Computer – A Very Strange Day
Technorati Tags: Dell I always felt I was "settling" for a lesser computer when using a notebook. Now the Dell Precision M4400 is literally the only computer I use – and I’m pretty demanding on a computer. The only thing that I think would have people shy away is the price. But in retrospect, I…
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Dell ControlPoint Fix
Technorati Tags: Dell Headline: After installing the latest version of .NET 4.0 I kept getting an error with SecurityDeviceInfoSetRegistryString.exe not being able to access the registry. There is a fix on the Dell site. After I downloaded an update to the ControlPoint System Manager dated 4 Aug 2009, version 1.3.00000, A12. After I installed that…