Dell Studio 1440/14z power connector

Speaking as an engineer, sometimes you really have to wonder what another engineer was thinking when something simple breaks.  We have a 4 year old Dell Studio 14z that suddenly started shutting down randomly, usually within seconds of booting up.  The battery was showing a full charge.  Also, the DC power connector was strangely loose […]

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This post was written by matt on July 12, 2013 Comments (0)

Fedora 17 -> Fedora 19 upgrade

Somehow I neglected to upgrade to Fedora 18, which likely made the transition to Fedora 19 more complex, or simply delayed and multiplied the required changes.  In general, “FedUp” works well.  However, somehow the NVidia video drivers always create problems.  This was exacerbated by having some ubuntu versions of the gnome-desktop in fc17.  I ended […]

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This post was written by matt on July 7, 2013 Comments (0)