Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Angel Mercedes and I am a first year college student living in the city of New York. I moved to the United Stated when I was 15 in the year 2009. Since I was a child, I have been interested in what is under the hood of all the technological stuff that we use in our everyday life, to the point that I used to have this screw driver that helped me open up everything that was not working in order to try to fix it (of course that was not the case most of the time). About in 2010, I remember that the desktop computer that me and my brother used to share was completely flooded by viruses (It was my brother’s fault for downloading random shit) and if we wanted to use it, we needed to fix it, and at that point i felt that the responsibility had fell on me, so I went to the store, grabbed some CDs, and burned a copy of Windows XP (which I had the licence for, say no to piracy, unless the game is bad) and after some time working through it, I had fixed my computer (which my brother ended up breaking the same way over and over until he got a laptop). This experience gave me a new understanding on computers. In 2011, while in a trip visiting my homeland, the Dominican Republic, my cousin introduced me to Linux. He installed Ubuntu 11.04 to my ancient laptop that I had at the time and it was working flawlessly and extremely fast, until I encountered a bug that will break the display of it, which fixed with some minutes of goggling, after this, it just ran without any problems, and since then I have been using it in my main computer (of course dual-booting it with Windows). This interest for technology also made me fall love Android smartphones and tablets. After some time, I felt that my quad-core laptop was not able to scale with my needs and I decided to build my own desktop computer, which was a great experience and I would recommend it to whoever wants an upgrade. Right now, I am the proud owner of two desktops (My main Cerberus and my server Fenrir, which doubles as a Nas), a Chromebook, a Toshiba satellite laptop, a Samsung Chromebook (Arm based), two android phones (Motorola Moto G and LG Mach) and a Raspberry Pi model B. At the end of this post I will place the different parts used and the specs of each device for you to see. This blog, as you can see will be focused on technology and computers. I will be posting many different post related to the devices that I own and the things that you can push them to do, as well as learning about Linux itself. I hope that you enjoy my blog, and again, welcome, I hope that you will enjoy the content as much as I have enjoyed writing it. I am a human and I commit mistakes and forget things, so you have any suggestions, concerns, corrections that I should make or anything else you can contact me by clicking the “Contact” tab, there you will find the different ways in which you can stay in touch with me. Desktop Computer (Cerberus)
Processor (CPU): Intel Pentium G2020 2.9GHz LGA 1155 Specs, price and information here. Motherboard: BIOSTAR TZ77A Specs, price and information here. Graphics card (GPU): EVGA 02G-P4-2643-RX GeForce GT 640 Specs, price and information here. Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB Specs, price and information here. Ram: Kingstone HyperX 4GB GeIL DRAGON 4GB Specs, price and information here, and also here. Power Supply: APEVIA ATX-CW500WP4 Specs, price and information here. Wireless Card: Rosewill RNX-N250UBE Specs, price and information here. Led lights strip: NZXT CB-LED20-BU Specs, price and information here. Case: Not Available. (Funny story, I was looking up through my last purchases and I could not find the case there, or in Newegg, or in the page of the manufacturer, which was Diablotek). Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04 / Windows 7 home edition More information here. Ubuntu / Windows Desktop Server (Fenrir): Motherboard with APU: ASRock E350M1 AMD E-350 APU (1.6GHz, Dual-Core) Specs, price and information here. Ram: Team Elite 4GB Specs, price and information here. Case: HEC Vigilance Black Specs, price and information here. Hard Drive: Random generic drive from laptop, 160GB. Operating System: Lubuntu 14.04 More information here. Raspberry Pi Model B Price and specs here. Case: Tontec New Raspberry Pi Board Case Box Price and information here. Samsung Chromebook Price, specs and information here.
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