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DRAM Plant in Boise on hold

In a world of rising dropping prices, Micron’s planned plant in Boise Idaho has been put on hold. At this point in time, it looks to be an indefinite hold. The plant was slated to build 200mm wafers and employ up to 1500 people. There are talks about changing the plant to produce something like [...]

Loud Mac Mini Fan

Just upgraded the memory or hard drive with the putty knife trick? And now the fan is noisy? Plug the small black connector back in.

10 Things I hate about Windows

Boot up time This one is not really fair to tell the truth. Pleanty of operating systems have a much longer boot time, but that’s to be expected when a hardware check it ran on every component and the machine’s uptime is measured in years. It’s really born more out of my frustration at actually [...]

10 Things I hate about Mac OSX

1.) Finder – My biggest issue with finder is that I like to have column view. Finder does not reliably track that preference. When closing the active window it sometimes switches back to another view, especially if you’ve not opened it in a while. This is even worse when working with network shares that multiple [...]