Posts Tagged ‘hardware’

HP Mini 210

June 5, 2010

New member to the fleet, it’s a HP netbook

It’s running Windows 7 Starter Edition, with only 1G RAM, it’s really pretty slow.

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After setting it up I then killed the Vista that came with this Toshiba M600 and installed Ubuntu 10.04 in it. The usual steps after installing ubuntu are (1) software update (2) install flash (3) install Chrome browser (4) install Java. However Java 6 have been removed from the Multiverse section of the Ubuntu archive, so I had to use terminal to do this.

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

The above didn’t finish well in terminal I had to run Update Manager to complete the configuration of Java 6.

3G Router

June 5, 2010

I have a few computers at home, one of them is 3 years old tower type desktop PC. There is also a M600 notebook which is now 2 years old. Also this 13″ MBP which I use for work.

Ever since I have mobile broadband instead of fixed installation I can’t allow 2 computers to access internet at the same time. So I needed below. It’s said that this gadget allows SIM by other carrier, I’ll be trying that later.

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iPhone speaker

April 11, 2010
Just bought this JBL speaker because of the useful apps like Metronome and Trace Tuner which I use during my cello practice at home.

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miCoach another run

April 6, 2010
I gave it another side-by-side test of miCoach v Nike+. Results are

Distance: 4.17 v 4.34k
Calories: 412 v 304

While running I pressed miCoach at every 0.5k milestone for information and found that distance error was somewhere between 25 to 80 metres. I ran say 4.34k today so error % is just around 1% which is very good.

This customized run I set a target Yellow zone of HR between 156-163 which I know by now that this is a pretty narrow zone. I was told by the gadget to beat up a bit and maintain within the zone a couple of times at the end of the run. I also realize that once I warmed up the stride rate is pretty much the same and it’s a bit difficult to slow down.

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