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About Thomas

Thomas is a self-proclaimed guru (just ask him). He enjoys long walks on the beach, running Mac OS X on his Inspiron 1525, and tweeting about nonsensical life happenings. You can follow Thomas on twitter, email him, or search the interwebs for all his personal information. Neither should be too difficult.

Goddamn, this computer is running HOT!!!

March 30th, 2009

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Have you ever heard your fans kick up to their highest RPM, so you feel the bottom of your computer to see why and shout “Goddam, this computer is running HOT!!!” I definitely have before and its not good for you or your system. Not only have people actually been severely burned by overheated laptops, […]

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Your audio doesn’t work, right? Well….

March 23rd, 2009

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This site has been up for a while now and, so far, it has seen five different releases of OS X, four major builds of OS X (Kalyway, iAtkos, XxX, and iPC), and countless hardware issues resolved. But whether you’re new to this whole OS X 86 thing or you’re just having some problems, not […]

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QE/CI support for 1440×900 resolution screens

March 20th, 2009

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Thanks goes out to Osmac for his find and Gbonilla for his original post ***Just note that these drivers are for people whos computer shipped with a native resolution of 1440×900 and now they don’t have QE/CI support. It is not for anyone else who wants to add 1440×900 to their list of supported solutions […]

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Backing Up Your Data; The Where, Why, and How

March 20th, 2009

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Working Ethernet For All!

March 18th, 2009

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As most of you may already know, there was a recent breakthrough with one of the many (although the number is rapidly dropping) problematic hardware devices in the Inspiron 1525. Ethernet, which is essential for those of us old timers that have only a modem and no router or just want slightly faster speeds, was […]

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