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OCZ Agility SSD
OCZ Agility SSD

Hardware > Storage >

An SSD is a spectacular speed improvement.

  • 2013-12 – The drive suddenly locked up and no system will detect it. OCZ is out of business too.
  • 2015-10 – I didn’t mention this, but I believe the problem was due to a half-inserted power cable. The hard drive was sortof dangling around, stuffed into a corner of my case because I was too cheap to buy a bracket for it. My bad. =( Also, it appears that Toshiba has bought OCZ.



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Computers >

http://openpandora.org/

Tiny Linux QWERTY gaming palmtop

  • aka the OpenPandora
  • By default, runs the Angstrom Linux distribution.
  • (will be) Replaced by the Pyra.
  • 2012-05-09 — received
  • ~2010-01-24 – This was replaced by my Zaurus SL-C1000.

    • 2018-01-09 — I’m not sure what this note is.



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Computers > Quiet cases >

Antec Sonata silent case

Amazing!

Helps with HDDs and general acoustic issues. The newer version of this case is even better, since it doesn’t feature any “speed holes”. =/

TODO – Make a proper page
TODO – My notes are in deep archives.

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Computers > Portable computing >
Sharp Zaurus SL-series >

(on Wikipedia)

A QWERTY clamshell palmtop which runs Linux.



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