Seems that AliExpress is having a Samsung Galaxy S3 for $99 go up for sale (only 5) in about 11.5 hours. Not sure I can trust this, but for $150 (with shipping) I can at least replace the broken screen on the current Galaxy S3 I have that just broke today.
Category: Hardware
Lenovo Yoga 13 Fan Noise
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This is an update from “Bloo” on the Lenovo forum thread surrounding this issue.
tl;dr
I’ve approved an update that contains a new thermal map that spins the fans up later and to a lower RPM. We plan to release an update to apply this new thermal map, along with a package that will restore the old thermal map in case anyone wants to backlevel.
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I just purchased (11/19/12) the new Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 from Best Buy and upon unboxing and turning on for the first time, I noticed the fan constantly runs. It’s rather annoying! Some research led me to the Lenovo support forums where there are plenty of others complaining about this. I’m going to dig into the problem a little more intimately soon I hope to see if it’s a power management issue or if there are some fan speed control settings hidden somwhere. There are 3rd party applications I’m aware of but I want a response from Lenovo on this. I’m contemplating returning this — it’s that annoying.
It seems (last updated today) that one consumer returned their purchased unit to Best Buy from a different city and the new system does not exhibit the fan noise issue. I am awaiting response as to which model he/she picked up as a replacement.
My affected model:
Mfr Date: 12/10/28
Model: 20175
PN: 59340248
Belkin F5D5050 10/100 USB Ethernet Adapter
This is a handy little adapter to have in the tech bag I found out this morning. =)
Download the driver at Belkin’s site.
Valkyrie Wireless Equipment
Here’s a gallery of some of the old photos (2004-2008) of Valkyrie Internet Services (Valkyrie Wireless) network and tower equipment I had the privilege of working on. Definitely a fun time in the early years of my technical work, and definitely the most fun.
Set Ambient Temperature Alarm VMware ESX Host
I had some temperature spikes in the data center recently that caused havoc and for some reason I never received notifications. I guess this isn’t configured to email by default, rather it sends a trap.
To change this behavior so that I can get escalating notifications when temperature dramatically spikes, you can modify it to do so.
Go to the Alarms for the vCenter server root domain and double-click on Host Hardware Temperature Status:
In the settings for this, you want to change the action (click on Action tab) to send email notification. I send to my email as well as SMS:
You can always check out what the temperature is of your ESX host by going to the ESX host in vCenter and clicking on Hardware Status tab and expanding Front Panel Board Ambient Temp (or similar depending on your hardware):
