Category Archives: Hardware

LGA 775 Replacement Mounting Clips

Posted on July 28, 2007 by erik

I’ve been trying to find these blasted mounting clips for the stock intel socket lga775 heatsink/fan units for the better part of the last month. If you’ve ever tried to install them, or even worse, remove the heatsink after a … Continue reading →

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ASUS A7N8x Deluxe Linux (in)compatibility

Posted on February 25, 2007 by erik

Continuing in the vein of ‘stupid hardware problems’, this week I discovered that the ASUS A7N8x deluxe motherboard I’ve been trying to nurse along as the backbone of my MythTV PVR basically doesn’t play nicely with linux, period. Don’t ask … Continue reading →

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WatchGuard Core x750e first impressions

Posted on December 8, 2006 by erik

So I finally got my WatchGuard eval unit. 2 months after I would have liked, but c’est la vie, I guess they had some employee turnover over there and my box got lost in the shuffle. Upon opening the box, … Continue reading →

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