I ordered the JLab Epic BT Headphones based on a review by Wirecutter, which site I had found to have thorough reviews and evaluations in the past. These headphones failed 13 days outside of the 30 day warranty return-for-refund period. They did this after working just fine, no bluetooth connectivity issues, good sound – out…
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updating iLO, HP’s Integrated Lights Out Connection
I was handed an HP server to rebuild. The server had rebooted for no logged reason. Two other servers bought at the same time and built with the same OS and firmware had also experienced this spontaneous reboot. These had been rebuilt and the rebuild at updated firmware and updated Ubuntu version had resolved the…
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I deleted my MobileMe account within "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" in setting on my iPhone 4. A couple of hours later I got a call from a number in Waltham, MA. It was my wife. I wondered where she was that she was using a landline or borrowing a cell phone, because the number showed up,…
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I have a 10.1" Dell Netbook that I love – except… Except that it has an Atom processor and even with an upgrade to 2GB RAM, every once in a while it just chugs, spinning and processing for minutes, unable to respond at all. It has a 600 x 1028 screen – it turns out,…
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