Category Archives: Hardware

Poor sound from headphones on hp dock

Posted on December 17, 2013 by v.

Just a quick one on hardware. I got a super-cool EliteBook 8570p i7/SSD at work… I normally take it home in the evening, so I really prefer to keep the headphones @work attached to the dock. I was so disappointed to … Continue reading →

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Digitalocean review

Posted on March 15, 2013 by v.

Being a web developer with clear lamp preference, I believe it was a trivial task for ad servers to target digitalocean.com ads at me. Those ads are just all over the net. In my gmail, on my basecamp account, my facebook … Continue reading →

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Pushing Virtualization to the Limits

Posted on April 8, 2011 by v.

We have a Windows Server 2008 r2 with Hyper-V on a true server hardware and dozens of VMs on it. I’ve setup an Ubuntu x64 machine on my computer and wanted to consolidate by moving it to the server. Export/import … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware, Infrastructure | Tagged Hyper-V, Virtual, VirtualBox | 1 Comment

Testing web pages in different IE versions

Posted on November 12, 2010 by v.

When you think you are done with the development, you are at the beginning of resolving cross-IE compatibility issues. At least as a beginner every one of us have gone through this phase. The world is offering IE Collection, IETester, … Continue reading →

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Laptop buying advise

Posted on May 2, 2009 by v.

Ocassionally I’m recommended as “the guy who knows computers” to help friend-of-a-friend computer newbies make a right choice when shopping for a computer. Usually my job here is to make sure that they don’t be too thrifty for RAM, or … Continue reading →