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Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 and the driver bug nobody found

Sep 19, 2023: Product line mess and emulation overshadowing the real thing create a perfect storm.


Oddware: ASUS P4B card reader and talking BIOS

Apr 30, 2020: Motherboard gimmicks were pretty different in the early 2000s.


More notes on Red Star OS 3.0

Mar 31, 2020: Exploring more of North Korea’s home-grown Linux distribution.


USB-C done cheap: when 2 ports become 1

Feb 29, 2020: How PC hardware is implementing USB-C in a way that may or may not violate standards.


Old ATI graphics crashing on boot with Linux

Jul 27, 2018: The importance of BIOS updates as a troubleshooting step.


The Eee PC SYSLINUX bug

Jun 16, 2018: Broken BIOS from the pre-UEFI era breaks UEFI partitions.


Using an LG TV Wi-Fi adapter on a PC

Aug 18, 2015: Reusing the AN-WF100 Wi-Fi dongle from “smart” TVs gone dumb.


Notes on Red Star OS 3.0

Jan 01, 2015: How to navigate North Korea’s home-grown Linux distribution.


Linux, Intel HDA, VIA codec and headphones

Jun 15, 2014: Linux doesn’t always enable headphone detection for onboard audio.