Author: TruXter

Toshiba A75 S2112 Review

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Just received a laptop computer as payment for replacing a motherboard on another laptop. The laptop I received as payment is a Toshiba A75 S2112 Satellite.

Specs:

CPU Arch : 1 CPU – 1 Cores – 2 Threads
CPU PSN : Mobile Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.06GHz
CPU EXT : MMX, SSE (1, 2, 3)
CPUID : F.4.1 / Extended : F.4
CPU Cache : L1 : 12 / 16 KB – L2 : 1024 KB
Core : Prescott (90 nm) / Stepping : E0

Freq : 3066.8 MHz (133.34 * 23)
MB Brand : TOSHIBA
MB Model : EDW10
NB : ATI RS300/RS300M rev 02
SB : ATI SB200 rev 00
GPU Type : ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP
DirectX Version : 9.0c

RAM : 448 MB
RAM Speed : Unknown (Unknown) @ N/A

Rundown

Goods

Very nice looking. Keys move fast. Screen is very shiny. Images look clear and crisp. The on board memory and yes I do mean “on board”, the memory is actually part of the motherboard. There is one slot for an upgrade stick. Hard drive is quite though you feel it spin up for sure. There are two fans under the motherboard and a large copper heat sink. Volume knob on the right side. A media button on the left (can assign it to any .exe). Two speakers in the front, they function well with no cracking noises. Latch lock works flawlessly. At times the computer is super fast. DVD burner. good solid housing. Battery works and charges up within just minutes. Built in WIFI is strong and has not failed once. 3 usb 2.0 ports 1 lan port and one modem connection. All lights function. Plenty of bundled software, came with Microsoft Office, tons of editing software like video and image (I’m still going to download and use GIMP it’s what I am used to)

Bads

When I got the laptop, the power button was inside the housing rattling around. Line going up the screen on the left. Some times the computer slows way down. Over heating despite the dual fan and large heatsink.If laptop is set on a table while running it will shut off in a blink in less than 20 minutes.  Battery about 4 hours as long as I keep airflow unobstructed. There are many old posts on this 5 year old computer talking about solder failure due to overheating.

Fixes

Got the power button to stay on by use of a Soldering iron and a pen cap.

Worked to repair the overheating issue cleaned fan and heatsink pulled out half a wig of hair, dust and funk. (fail) Still crashes when sitting on a table.

Screen having a line up the left if I push on the screen, sometimes the line goes away. Someone showed me how but i kind of didn’t start listening until I saw it work. So I have to go back and re-ask.  If I can get it to fix by Doing so, then I will locate the issue better and solve it.

For the work I did on the other computer and the fact this thing actually runs ( This post is being done on the Toshiba), is a great factor in this review. It’s like a free computer . I spent seven hours on that other computer. She spent $100 on this computer. Who got the better deal ?

Score

I give this laptop – notebook a

7/10

The art of Grand Theft Auto Forum Trolls

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The one is for gtaforums members

It’s just a way to admire the fancy amazing work of current Gen consoles.

For Consoles
The way they take weak machinery
sub-par graphics and do this amazing thing to show you how wonderful it is.
by blurring everything they don’t want you to look at you see “definition”

For PC
and then it will come for pc and you will see how great it is.
Then you sell your console for 1/10th it’s original cost.
You buy an overpriced computer with a mesh of “ultimate hardware”
You try to play the game and nothing works properly
so you join a forum and scream ” It should work I bought all of the best”
Never once considering you suck at building a machine and can’t create
a rig with parts that don’t bottleneck or conflict in actual specs and abilities.
So you scream the “game is teh suck.”
join the forum under 100 names and type with an accent (????)
and try and get help while bashing the game.
and we must not forget to claim MEMORY LEAK

:-)

Fun With GIMP

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I have been using The Gimp for several years now. I use it at work. Even though I  have photoshop on my work computer I still insist on using GIMP. Why? well because I have been broke for many years and am very used to using GIMP.

Well I have been watching one of my Facebook friends do a bunch of stuff with her Apple computer. She has been editing pictures using what ever program that thing uses and well it makes some of the complicated stuff quite easy. Then again she has never been the total newb so it might actually be hard. I don’t know.. I just assumed. =-\

Well I noticed she posted a photo that was unedited.

MY FB FREIND

(she is a hottie so I am blurred her face as to not get stalked)

So I ripped it off and started digging into it to see what I could change.

Three stooges

I spent about 35-40 minutes editing :-)

(to the tune of pinball wizard ) That slightly colorblind kid, sure does a mean photo edit!

Addition of 15 more minutes editing

15 more minutes editing

Sometimes It’s best to leave “well enough” alone.

Do you know any cool aps to add to gimp?

Iphone4 Released

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The Iphone 4 has been released. At some AT&T had lines of people who camped waiting to be one of the first to obtain 1.
The apearance is slightly more boxy and resembles past ipods with hint of influence from android phone shapes.
Functionality has been smoothed in ways that makes android phones look dated. Video quality is suprisingly high. That will surely be compared to droid 5mp cams.
Full review on the review section of truxtertech.com . Houston malls opened at 7 am to release. Day 2 opening at 8 am. For those who missed out. Video chat works.
Russian president got his todaqy straight from steve jobs while in california.

This new was posted from my G1.

Brilliant spam – Sandra Sellers

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Cool spam, I have no idea how they got my email.
Seems they are getting more and more creative these days.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, wrote:

Dear webmaster,

We, in Ontime-Ads, are glad to offer you payment on behalf of one of our clients for the publication of a small advertisement on genius geeks.com.
We would like to inform you that we are using a few advertising methods according to the selected website.
While reviewing your website I thought of a great way to advertise on geniusgeeks.com so it will fit it perfectly.

For full details please contact me at sandra.sellers@ontime-ads.com.

*If you have other websites which I can review for advertising please send me their URLs as well.

Regards,
Sandra Sellers
Advertising Specialist
sandra . sellers @ ontime-ads.com

To permanently delete yourself from our list, simply reply to this with a blank email and you will never receive any communication from us in the future.

My response
I don’t know what site you are talking about, and genius geeks has no idea who you are…. your website is nonexistent so. You are a troll and will be posted about online.

I really didn’t talk to the people on geniusgeeks I just stopped by their site and well from the looks of it. They have no reason to advertise me on their site.

For now I will mark this as spam. I am not saying they are spam, I will just shove it in the spam pile till they prove otherwise.

If you can not tell by my post. I do not recommend you use their service. I do not recommend you do not use their service. I do say that it is probably in my best interest if I stay away from them.

If you know anything, please respond.

**Follow up**
Upon Further investigation
There are no records of a Sandra Sellers at any advertising company I could locate.
I see that no one has complained from being ripped off, simply because the scam
is so obvious. It would be in your best interest to get proof of validity.
and it would be in your best interest to not respond to Sandra Seller emails.
AT ALL!
If anyone can post the originating i.p. address of this email from Sandra Sellers
or trace route results, it would be much appreciated.

So do you think the Sandra Sellers on time ads is a scam?

Security Camera Amazement

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Sitting at a Houston Fire Alarm company who also does security systems, I was participating in a webinar from VideoIQ I was surprised at the bag of gadgets they had to show. Due to the agreement of watching the video I can’t tell you much about the innovative ground breaking networking device about to come. Just be certain it will cut short all of the issues you face in many large facilities. So keep watching their site for an update.
I can however tell you about the cameras they have on their site with between 160 gb of storage up to 500 gb storage. They call it “Zero-bandwidth recording” Some cameras are capable of up to 1080p 30fps true HD recording.

This will be a great future for HiTech Fire using VideoIQ products. This is the type of thing that customer want, but do not want to pay for. It is the stuff they wish they had when their  $10 camera takes a fuzzy video and the suspects can not be  identified.

Vampires Live Codes

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This game is fun. One of the greatest cell phone creations was the invention of the Iphone and android phones. The act of using computer applications on your phone is an excellent time killer on a bus or in a cab or in the boss’s office getting chewed out.. Now comes the games and applications. Storm8 is the maker of many fun games for cell phones using Iphone apple tech and Android cell phone operating system.
If you play storm8 games such as Vampires Live, as I do. Then you want as many people in your group. As I do. So Invite everyone to leave their Vampires Live code with a simple response.
So I have to show my support for this dang thing and post my code.
2F2CTP
I hope you leave your Vampires Live code here also.
No sign up or anything. but I do filter for spam. ( I get lots). So it won’t be more than an hour .. I will accept your Vampires Live codes.

Just leave your vampires Live code here and add the ones that are already here and you can increase your Vampires Live clan.

If your Iphone or Android phone has any other storm 8 games, feel free to use my search feature on the right and see if I have these games listed.

No adsense app for android

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Checking your adsense account on an android phone is pointless. You can see nearly all of the page with the browser, except for the totals. There is some guy who made an adsense ap but he sells the full featured one for like $.99.
This is pathetic. The phone is made by google. I can imagine what people see on adwords. Probably not a whole lot. I do not understand why google themself have not created this app. Could be a very useful tool.
I have tried with the web browser and with opera, no luck in seeing my page view count. I am forced to using the hit count that came with wordpress and subtract 35% because for some reason google adsense seems to do that.
Oh well, at least adbrite let’s me see my stats …. with the google browser.

MSI K9A2 CF Motherboard Review

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So far this has been a nice upgrade for me. I moved from an ECS GeForce7050M-M

Here are the specs of what I upgraded from and why

Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture ( I never saw the DC, I always ran at 400mhz)

2 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM socket support up to 16 GB (will never happen only 2 slots)

Support DDR2 800/667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM (I always saw it at lowest speeds even after max upgrade)

Well after a bit of less than one week, the PCI express slot, dies on me, I had to return the motherboard. it was the last of that kind they had at the fry’s by home. So i moved on to an xfx motherboard.

but the benchmarks I received on that motherboard where higher than I ever had, all I upgraded was the motherboard. that’s crazy. I used the same processor and sticks of ram, and my scores doubled over my past motherboard with the exact same components.

Well here is the review of the new motherboard XFX 750a Black Edition