Extending Support John-ErikAug 31, 2007August 29, 20140 When products end extended support, all of the old updates and support documents are still available, it just means that they’re not ever going to Read more
Is there any browser you have to pay for nowadays? John-ErikAug 30, 2007November 28, 20140 Internet Explorer requires a Windows liscense, so it’s not exactly free. Also, Opera isn’t free to an OEM integrating it, it actually costs money, such Read more
Flavors of Vista I Use John-ErikAug 30, 2007November 28, 20140 I have Business 32/Business 32/Ultimate 32/Ultimate 64. My HDD is a Seagate Momentus 5400 PSD 160 GB/256 MB, on a machine with a C2D 2.2, Read more
Nero is annoyingly bloated John-ErikAug 29, 2007August 29, 20141 Nero is an annoying bloated piece of software. I don’t need a CD burning package the size of Windows XP to burn CDs and DVDs. Read more
Core2 is extention to the P6 John-ErikAug 29, 2007November 28, 20140 Actually, the Intel Core 2 microarchitechure is a 64 bit extension to the P6, which is …. genuinely old. Long story. And didn’t I just Read more
One XP Machine Left John-ErikAug 29, 2007November 28, 20140 FWIW, I have one XP machine left, and havn’t used it in over a month. Everything I use runs on Vista (I don’t use Nero Read more
Intel Needs AMD John-ErikAug 28, 2007November 28, 20140 They’ve been helping them for decades – Intel needs AMD to keep the FTC off of their back and have for years. How do they Read more
Just got a shiny new notebook John-ErikAug 17, 2007August 29, 20140 Just replaced my VGN-SZ430P with a VGN-SZ650N. Besides being slightly slimmer, cutting out the WWAN that I never used, a slightly faster CPU and GPU, Read more
Celeron-M 1.6Ghz John-ErikAug 17, 2007November 28, 20140 If that’s a Celeron-M 1.6 GHz, the perfomance gains are noticable – that Celeron-M is roughly equivelent to the Pentium M 1.4-1.5 GHz, but runs Read more
Personal Home Server? John-ErikJul 31, 2007August 27, 20140 Just curious to see what everyone is running as their home server. Personally I have: Supermicro P3TDLR Dual 1.4-S GHz P3’s 4 GB RAM Read more
Click and Clack said… John-ErikFeb 2, 2007August 25, 20140 My friend Joe lives a few blocks from me. He’s a regular working stiff, just like me, though we work at different places, Now, Joe, Read more
64-Bits Frequently Asked Questions John-ErikJan 22, 2005November 28, 20140 Over the last year, CPUs extending the IA-32 instruction set to 64 bits have hit the streets. There are two incarnations of it, AMD’s AMD64 Read more
Card Spacing and Cooling John-ErikJan 16, 2005June 21, 20140 The spacing should be 2-3 slots apart on all boards (you can send your thanks to 3DLabs on that one) and the NV Silencer 5 Read more
More RAID Defined John-ErikDec 30, 2004November 28, 20140 RAID 0: Also commonly known as a stripe set (as it provides no redundancy, one of the useful parts of RAID) data is broken into Read more
Routers vs Switches vs Hubs John-ErikNov 21, 2004November 28, 20140 A router uses TCP/IP or another routable protocol to determine where traffic that reaches it should go. Most routers are two segment (e.g. it can Read more