The AMD/ATI V4900 arrived lickety-split from Amazon. I unpacked it, saw that there was no driver CD, and went to the AMD (no trace of ATI anymore) site and looked for the driver. You’d think that would be easy. You would be mistaken. The problem is that the AMD web site makes … [Read more...]
Dell T7600 OOBE, part 2
The Dell tech sent me an email with the news that Windows 7 doesn’t support more than 192 GB of RAM. Bummer. Should Dell have told me that before they took the order? Maybe so, but, back in the 32-bit OS days, they never said that if you ordered a 4GB machine you could only use … [Read more...]
Dell T7600 OOBE
I needed a computer to run Matlab image processing programs. Matlab needs a lot of memory, and my 48GB T7500 wasn’t cutting it. Why does Matlab gobble memory like that? Part of it is data representation. You can represent image pixels as one or two byte unsigned integers, like … [Read more...]
How long is a moment?
A fifty-minute, one-way conversation with Lenovo sales support: … [Read more...]
Servicing an old camera
When I first started with this blog, I thought the bleeding edge occurred when users like me get too far in front of technology. A recent experience has made me think that there’s another bleeding edge. That one occurs when you get too far behind. I have a Linhof Technika that … [Read more...]
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