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Every blue moon I take a trip back on the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive to look at what www.pelleys.com looked like. Looking through the information from www. pelleys.com on December 3, 2001, I found this information on the … Continue reading →

Another Christmas Day is over (and Boxing Day, and the day after boxing day) and I have finally gotten a chance to install a new SSD in my Lenovo Y50-70. I spent Christmas Day installing a new Samsung Evo 850 and … Continue reading →

WTF??? I was on cnn.com when I saw an article “See U.S. Navy combat ship at top speed” (http://goo.gl/2xK32I) that seemed interesting. I find it impressive for a combat ship going all out. This one is a new “Littoral combat … Continue reading →

It has been some time (again) since I posted and I have a few things to write about. Until then… I saw at the end of a Chuck Lorre show: Chuck Lorre Productions, #401 “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it … Continue reading →

It is moonshine!

I realized on Friday that the Lenovo Energy Manager on my Y50 was no longer working. First, some words of clarification: I spend a few hours with my dear friend Google trying to find out haw to fix “battery saver.” … Continue reading →

This might be the “new normal” with UEFI BIOSes but when I updated the BIOS of my IdeaPad Y50 the GRUB2 boot manager was gone and replaced by Windows 10’s boot loader. Even the upgrade from Windows 8.1 to 10 … Continue reading →

By now two of four of the other Windows 7 machines that are turned on have not yet gotten the update for Windows 10. Yesterday I manually updated my main machine (Lenovo Y50) by going to Microsoft and downloading the upgrade … Continue reading →

I just finished upgrading my Lenovo Y50-70 install from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Of course, I run Linux Mint 17.2 as my primary OS but need Windows for VMware ESXi administration and, of course, running some games. Diablo III … Continue reading →

For the longest time I have been looking for the correct way to use my Lenovo Y50’s hotkey (Fn + F6) to disable my touchpad. I hate the when I’m typing and my cursor decides to jump somewhere… I found … Continue reading →