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How-To get your PC serial numbers the easy way

I often find myself crawling under the desk looking for labels or turning around laptops trying to find half-erased and destroyed panels showing computer serial numbers and other cryptic hyeroglyphs.
Let me tell you about serial numbers. These are quite useful to keep handy in case your stuff is stolen. Luckily, for most manufacturers like Dell, [...]

an ipod singing the blues

Yesterday, as I was leaving work, I plugged the 4th gen iPod on the car, set it to random and started driving. 10 minutes later, I noticed it was skipping some songs. I’ve seen it happen before (a long time ago) and was lucky enough to:
a) have it within the warranty period
b) have the [...]

HowTo/Topography Maps on Garmin GPS Receivers

This process will let you build custom topography maps based on freely available map tiles. These maps can be then uploaded to your Garmin GPS receiver, along with the maps you’ve already got (CitySelect or CityNavigator, for instance), providing a transparent layer with contour lines. The process has been know to work in a number [...]

Opening the Ximeta NetDisk

WARNING:
This will void your NetDisk warranty. You have been warned.
Roughly four months after I bought my 160 Gb NetDisk in the black market (eheh) and after having it serve as my central storage repository for most of the CDR and DVDR backups I keep scattered by (and more, much more), it eventually had to happen. [...]