Extending Support
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...
Author : John-Erik
Is there any browser you have to pay for nowadays?
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...
Flavors of Vista I Use
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,...
Nero is annoyingly bloated
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....
Core2 is extention to the P6
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...
One XP Machine Left
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...
Intel Needs AMD
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...
Just got a shiny new notebook
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,...
Celeron-M 1.6Ghz
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...
Personal Home Server?
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...
Click and Clack said…
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,...
64-Bits Frequently Asked Questions
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...
Card Spacing and Cooling
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...
More RAID Defined
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...
Routers vs Switches vs Hubs
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...