hardware Archives | Ros' Rants https://rosrants.com/tag/hardware/ I blog, therefore I am. Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:32:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://rosrants.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-profile-560x560-1-32x32.png hardware Archives | Ros' Rants https://rosrants.com/tag/hardware/ 32 32 74311559 UPC Speed Upgrade (for Free!) https://rosrants.com/free-upc-speed-upgrade/ https://rosrants.com/free-upc-speed-upgrade/#comments Fri, 02 May 2014 20:24:41 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=255 So apparently UPC have given me a free speed upgrade, imagine my surprise when I noticed that a linux DVD (3GB) was downloading at 14.4MB/s. Did a quick speed test on my 50Mb connection and lo and behold this was the result: Meh. I may as well explain a common confusion here about MB versus…

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]]> https://rosrants.com/free-upc-speed-upgrade/feed/ 1 255 UPC (Ireland) upgrade [edit: Fuck UPC Technicolor] https://rosrants.com/upc-ireland-fuck-upc-technicolor/ https://rosrants.com/upc-ireland-fuck-upc-technicolor/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:54:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=8 I recently did a UPC package upgrade. They insisted on giving me a new modem. hopefully these Technicolor modems aren’t a pile o shite n start crapping out on me like the dodgy Cisco they tried to peddle to me until i got it replaced with an older model… …so far so good. [EDIT: NOPE!…

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]]> 12 Bricked my Galaxy Note (Soft Brick Phew!) https://rosrants.com/bricked-my-galaxy-note-soft-brick-phew/ Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:33:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=13 Very intense day today as I luckily only soft bricked my GT-N7000. Got stuck in bootloop after an unsuccessful rom upgrade when returning to nandroid backup. And no i didn’t use stupid stock ICS kernel. Reflashed stock rom with Odin and it decided to fail :-O, redid it and felt very lucky when it worked!…

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]]> 13 Cool workstation https://rosrants.com/cool-workstation/ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:45:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=14 Adding one of these to my wishlist: Anyone want to buy me one of these?  ;-) http://www.mwelab.com/index.php/en/products

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]]> 14 Taking Apart a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800 https://rosrants.com/taking-apart-a-microsoft-wireless-keyboard-800/ https://rosrants.com/taking-apart-a-microsoft-wireless-keyboard-800/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:33:00 +0000 http://rosrants.com/?p=17 I got some beer or cider under a couple of keys on this keyboard. seems like a lot of screws to open it, i count 13, seems excessive. I googled, as opening these things can get tricky, but couldn’t find any guides, hence this post, so i’ll let ya know if ya need to take…

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