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HTC Desire Z: An in-depth and nerdy review.
This review differs from other HTC Desire Z reviews because I’ve actually been using this phone as my only smartphone quite intensively, and because I’m writing up, in great depth, my iopinion as a...
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Don’t buy HomePlug / Powerline ethernet adapters
(Post summary: The real-world throughput of current generation Homeplug AV 200 Mbit/s powerline ethernet adapters in a modern house is woefully inadequate. Even wireless is much to be preferred, and...
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Review of Ubuntu Linux 12.04 on the Samsung NP300V3A Core i5 NVIDIA Optimus...
An important warning: During installation, do NOT activate home folder encryption. Due to bugs 957843 and 509180, you will most probably suffer data loss, and you won’t even know about it until it’s...
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Acer V3-571G FullHD IPS: Superb price/performance Linux development laptop
I recently needed a new mobile development workstation. My main requirements were that it should have at least a Full HD (1920×1080) IPS (in-plane switching) screen and a good keyboard, and that it...
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Skype 4.2.0.11 on Linux: Premium subscription but NO group video and NO group...
Usually we use Google Hangouts for group video calling and also for screen sharing with more than two participants. If you’re not using Google Hangouts yet for your video conferences (full video and...
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Syntax-highlighting markdown fenced code blocks in Emacs
The syntax-highlighted fenced code blocks in GitHub flavored markdown, or GFM, are a beautiful and useful invention. One starts a code block with three or more backticks or tildes, followed by the name...
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Notes on my full-time testing of 7 Dropbox alternatives
Ever since I dropped Dropbox in September of 2013 due to mounting privacy concerns, I’ve been searching for and testing various filesystem syncing solutions to take its place. This post is a summary...
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If you want to run OpenGL 3.2+ apps in a Windows guest, AVOID Parallels 13...
TL;DR: Parallels Desktop 13 only supports OpenGL 3.2 on an extremely limited subset of mostly games. VMWare Fusion 10 has full OpenGL 3.3 support. In my case, this made the difference between being...
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