how the things should be in 2009, part 2

the AIR intake in any laptop should be always on the sides and the exhaust pointing away from the user, common sense, it looks like the manufacturers want your laptop's life to be over after your warranty expires and before you have some more time to enjoy it. LOL

this suffocating action is easy to accomplish, just drop your laptop on your bed and watch the temperature rise to dangerous levels. easy uh? , I might post a video some day later.

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got a broken HD WO today

a Customer called to find out what's going on with his DELL inspiron, I almos missed the subtle "neec...neec...neec" sound coming from the HD head while trying to read a sectod again and again, most curious thing with this WO is the fact that the HD passed a lot of tests from the manufacturer, even SMART and confidence test, just to fail to pass the read test on 5 percent, this was causing the system to be able to boot in safe mode but never in standard mode. so DELL is sending a new HD with OS preinstalled and preactivated. well, kinda nice service, although we had to stay on the phone for a while to get to the right person.

and now on twitter!!

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my webpage

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searching for ideas about motion sensing if that's the name

I just drop my laptop by accident, just a couple of feets, it's a Thinkpad T43 full upgraded (memory, hardrive and docking base) , and after a quick survey I found just the plastic bezel sustained some damage, all the rest is working just fine, now, my question is, i heard some macs and other laptops have some kind of motion sense control to be able to sense the fall and park the hardrive plates in case of a fall, my question is: how do you "sense" a falling situation and distinguish it from just a movement? coz a laptop can fall in just any direction, so it looks like more that a engineering problem for me. I will try to keep considering possible solutions for this, although the new "solid state" drives will probably make this post obsolete as soon as they loss some weight in their special price tag .

about me

hard core IT lover, geek by election, field tech by fate, I'm proud to be a person with a deep understanding of electronics, networks and technology in general, also mobile tech, and gadgets, robotics, mechatronics, microcontrollers, etc.

born and raised in Argentina, arrived to the USA two years ago, teached myself to read English just because I was eager to read "JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings" coz found no spanish copies at that moment, that is, before the movies and before it was cool to love ring stories, I came here with my scientist wife so she can pursue her career, I fix laptops for living in Richmond VA as a side job and I drive all around VA as a Field Service Tech doing service calls for an Elkton based tech company.

my own home based business, supposedly a escalable one, is called Richmondlaptop.net

my name? ...Mario

PS: BTW, I was recently called "a texting freak" by my french friend, dear Mathieu, I took that as a compliment, I'm glad you said that, LOL.

the way the things should be in 2009, part II of who knows?

I just read this, and I'm still shaking my head, after the first part of this post, it might be just a coincidence, or an answer to my prayers, the thing is I found this post , and I cannot less than admire the crude reality this person depicts. and how much truth her/his words accumulate.
being a light palm programmer, I'm still forcing me to NOT make a list of that wishlist and start coding. too much work, so little time, anyway, my geeky unknown friend : KUDOS to you!

how the things should be in 2009, part I of who knows

if I have my laptop resting connected to a docking station (call it ultra port, expansion bay or whatever you want) and I'm listening some nice music,and I eject my laptop the least I expect is the sound to failover to the local speakers, or, if it's the case, and I happen to have another USB earphones connected, please direct the sound right to this output source.

well. may be a dialogue like this "it looks your actual reproduction device is no longer available, would you like to switch to 1)local speakers? 2)your recently installed Logitech USB headphones?
3) the stereo earbuds I'm detecting in the proximity of this laptop and are paired?

thank you.
may be I'm totally wrong and this is not the year before 2010, just another flavor of 1993.

some of my projects...

1 get a stepper H bridge working with high torque for a CNC class robot arm or a joystick guided cart.

2 setup my quad core with everything inside so I never have to ope again and I can dedicate to really "use" my computer.

3 setup a "data closet" in the house to be able to take my NAS devices off the office room.
too much noise and no space.

4 hopefully, start developing with my new atmel stk500. will post some more progress here.

5 with some luck , invent something amazing and become worldwide know hahahahaha :)

too much trust in timing?

I was sent today to install an ADTRAN T916 in a business location , the freaky part begun when I discovered the T1 line wasn't on place, it was still on the outside of the building, then , to further amazement, the T1 line was inactive, so why this people send a field tech to make an install when nothing is ready to test operate or switch to production?

well, I think I will never know.

my first was a networked printer install, where nobody took the time to add those two printers to the server, and then as I stayed calmly at home waiting for the call, somebody was just unable to understand the fact that it is pointless to be onsite before the printers are added to the domain. so, I just remained calm , tried to explain the situation, the other side was like "this is ridiculous, then just hung up" well, I think I will never be paid for that time spent making just a few 6 calls to get this sorted out.

reading a dead man blog

NO! I'm not dead, I was reading this and suddenly realized after checking the first posts, that this man started blogging only after his disease appeared, providing a timeline of his fall to death, although I find this an experience which makes me feel so humble when thinking about death and life, I was startled by the fact I was unable to reach any prior blog or posts, I was trying to find out who was this man before knowing he was going to die, I admire him for what he did and his family for how they keep remembering him and supporting him. but what strikes me the most is the fact that EVERYONE should allways post blogs entries and behave around our lives as like we are going to be dead tomorrow, that would contribute a lot to the peace in the world, and to the planet life and ecology. ..sorry no tech in this post. just some thoughts.