Don’t shop at K&M

If you ever thought about shopping at K&M Elektronik, don’t do it. They suck. Here’s why:

I bought a wireless card from them a while ago, which, over time, bit the bulletkicked the bucket. I am supposing that I was seeing thermal problems, since the card …

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De Phazz - Natural Fake

After a little more than a week of owning De Phazz‘s new album Natural Fake, I’m not as excited as I was at first. Maybe that has to do with how much I listened to it. But altogether, I have noticed that many songs are much more repetitive …

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The Battery Rant

No matter what you do, do not ever buy the 2000 mAh rechargeables from Hama. They seem to have a pretty high defect rate. Today I finally got a refund for my set of four, which I had exchanged no less than twice before. Each time I came home with …

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The State of 802.11g Wireless Networking in Linux

This entry describes my way to wireless LAN in Linux. It is an update of an earlier article. All I wanted was an 802.11g-compatible PCMCIA card with a reasonably open and functional Linux driver. I find it ok if the card’s firmware is not open source, but I …

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The Lowdown on Amsterdam, Day 1 (Wednesday)

To say the least, the trip was great. Amsterdam is a very cool city, with all that water, all the bridges and the people, something is just right there. Sadly for you, there aren’t going to be any pictures, at least not for a while, since all we had …

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