xps m1330 Archives - The Grand Fallacy

The best laid plans, No. 73.

By Paul Frields 22nd Nov 2008 8th May 2022 3

I was going to spend some time tonight writing a big warm and fuzzy blog post about looking forward to Fedora 10 and all the good times ahead. That would have been awesome. Instead, it’s my sad duty to report that my spiffy little Dell XPS M1330 took its own …

Take a lesson, Lenovo.

By Paul Frields 26th Jun 2008 8th May 2022

I’ve been having a problem with the CD+DVD rewritable drive in my Dell laptop. It only recognizes new media about 10-15% of the time, and has a habit of “marking” discs I put in it with small, stuttering scratches. (I learned quickly not to put anything in it I really …