Feb 19
ASUS BIOS woes
icon1 Shane | icon2 Computers | icon4 02 19th, 2008| icon32 Comments »

Yesterday I attempted to update the BIOS on my motherboard in anticipation of eventually picking up an Intel E8400. I read on ASUS’ website that the newest 45nm Intel CPUs are supported in the latest BIOS revision, 1502/1503. 1502 was available on their downloads page, so I downloaded it and gave it a whirl. I was coming from what my motherboard shipped with, revision 1203.
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Feb 13
OSX hair-tearing bug
icon1 Shane | icon2 OSX | icon4 02 13th, 2008| icon3No Comments »

Recently I picked up a 13″ MacBook that I have upgraded some. It’s got Leopard, and I used Time Machine to restore all my settings and software from my now-neglected iMac.

The settings transferred included some for Spaces. Now, I tried Spaces and didn’t find it that useful, so I disabled it. But I didn’t clear out any preferences for it.
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Feb 10

3DMark06 score: 9695
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