Search results

  1. C

    Problem with Router and Desktop's NIC

    Before I went on vacation, I unplugged all non essential electricals, including computer stuff ...however, I forgot to disconnect the actual cable line from the modem. The connection topology is as follows: big bad internet --> cable modem --> router ---> wired connection to desktop and...
  2. C

    New form factors! Get your new form factors here! Read all about it!

    Time marches on, bringing us a few new FFs: - NGFF: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6293/ngff-ssds-putting-an-end-to-proprietary-ultrabook-ssd-form-factors - SATA Express & SFF-8639: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6294/breaking-the-sata-barrier-sata-express-and-sff8639-connectors
  3. C

    Google Tech Talks: The Graphing Calculator Story

    Light hearted and enjoyable: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Dl643JFJWig - http://www.pacifict.com/Story
  4. C

    And the 2012 award for most egregious use of a proprietary interface goes to...

    Samsung .... though it could easily go to Apple, but hey, they likely would've won for about eight years in a row if there really were such a thing....I also note that Asus gets an honorable mention/runner up too Anyway, I could easily choose Samsung for ruining their tablets by not adding USB...
  5. C

    Trinity unveiled

    Here's a couple from Anand looking at the newest AMD APU release (currently confined to the laptop segment; desktop models to follow in later): - http://www.anandtech.com/show/5831/amd-trinity-review-a10-4600m-a-new-hope -...
  6. C

    Samsung Galaxy Note and pondering future device trends

    Just curious/polling to see what your thoughts on this device might be. Notwithstanding the fact that it is intentionally larger (given that it straddles the line between small tablet and phone), the most common complaint that I've seen written about it is its size. And of those critiques...
  7. C

    The coming war on general computation presentation

    I suspect that many of you will enjoy this presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyNmUmmQ0kI#! Its 53 mins long and does contain a couple of F-bombs on rare occasion as well as a few others from the non-PC vocabular
  8. C

    Cotton Candy (a mini Android & ARM based computer)

    Interesting device (didn't like the video though ... full of fluffy mkt'ing speak) http://blog.laptopmag.com/usb-stick-contains-dual-core-computer-turns-any-screen-into-an-android-station
  9. C

    ViDock and/or DIY eGPU

    I had seen mention of ViDock before on a number of occasions, but, for whatever reason, had never really checked it out ...either that, or, it never register with me what it was for (I probably just thought it was an external harddrive enclosure or something). Anyway, was checking the stuff...
  10. C

    run dll as an app error

    I was asked to look at a computer running XP that is exhibiting the following behaviour: - opening a jpg attachment in Outlook Express results in a window/box begins to open up, but it never goes beyond just the initial stage of rendering the box -- remaining grey or semi-transluecent in its...
  11. C

    Rumour: Bye bye Samsung HDDs

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsung-considers-sale-of-hard-drive-unit-report-2011-04-17
  12. C

    iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

    A little humour. Language Warning: lots of F-bombs are dropped, so not suitable for all playback environments. Round1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg Round2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOtC9QfXac I think I need some Gee Bees :drnk:
  13. C

    photoshop witchcraft

    perhaps some of you have already seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI
  14. C

    How to disable tab scrolling in Firefox 2.0?

    I searched mozillazine forums and knowledgebase on the weekend, but I didn't spot anything related to turning off the tabs scrolling feature. Now I'm sure that some people really love this feature, but I find that it actually slows down / impedes my browsing activities. So, as the title puts...
  15. C

    Thunderbird 2.0

    I've recently been using the beta releases of TB 2.0 and it seems really nice. My needs are pretty simplistic, so I don't know if it would meet the needs of others, but I'm quite happy with the clean ups and UI changes. Prior to this, I was getting ready to ditch TB for good, as it was really...
  16. C

    Cheaper_LEDs_from_Breakthrough_in_Zinc_Oxide

    Here's one for Joe: Cheaper_LEDs_from_Breakthrough_in_Zinc_Oxide
  17. C

    Not impressed with Mark Shuttleworth

    I wasn't at all impressed with Novell and their deal with MS. I'm still sitting on the fence on that one, but am still leaning towards the negative perspective. I note that Ballmar's quips, within the recent week or so, about "Balance sheet liability" and "Linux users owe us", certainly didn't...
  18. C

    Future Chip Cooling Technologies

    Just going through and cleaning up collected bookmarks for the last several weeks and I came across the following article that I meant to post a while back but must have forgot. Anyway, here she be: IBM Researchers Develop NextGeneration ChipCooling Technologies
  19. C

    Yesterday I saw snow

    ... for about 5 minutes, despite the fact that it was (while not exactly warm) still very mild out (high was 10C / 50F). So I guess it was pretty chilli up in the clouds yesterday. Anyway, besides being unseasonably cooler for this time of year, the temp also dropped last night down to...
  20. C

    Tabbed text documents

    I hate scrolling through a gazzilion pages .... why hasn't any of the word processing programs come out with tabbed documents yet? I could organize so many things so much better if I could break files up into tabs, and still preserve the info all in one file (as opposed to several small files)...
  21. C

    All about Konqueror

    With 3 articles appearing online this past week, one might consider that this unprecedented amount of publicity was the result of a "week of the Konqueror" campaign or something --- I have no clue, but regardless, I found some interesting bits in them. For file management, I absolutely love the...
  22. C

    Suse Linux 10.1 x86_64

    Currently I'm highly dissapointed with my two days of "use". I've had numberous problems -- many of which appear to be shared by others, as witnessed on the different Suse user forums I browsed. Until I can rule out that my crappy install luck wasn't the result of either bad media or burn...
  23. C

    EFI possibilities and Mac's Target Disk Mode

    I was just reading a comment by A.P. Lawrence about EFI, and following the rabbit down the whole, read through this quick guide to TDM. Made me think of Merc's recent conundrum. Obviously unhelpful to that situation...but perhaps helpful for other sets of circumstances. Who knows, maybe...
  24. C

    Seeking suggestions for Mouse "feet" replacements

    The feet on my mouse have become fairly worn, and actually one (of the original five) has, at some unbeknownst time, fallen off and likely fell victim to the vaccum. I remembered that Merc had once mentioned that he had called Logitech in regards to obtaining some replacement parts. So I...
  25. C

    AMD looking at some new cache tech

    Personally, I think X-bit's title is a bit misleading, but nonetheless, its an interesting news piece.
  26. C

    CoreAVC decoder brings 1080p to the masses

    Up until just recently, the fastest H.264/AVC decoder was Ateme's. Enter CoreAVC which, from what I've seen, is ~60% faster. What this means is that fairly pedestrian hardware can now playback even AVC 1080p files. It appears that Core's media player (TCMP) and AVC plugin produces the best...
  27. C

    Some perceptions from the latest generation

    Interesting to see. (I didn't read, I just looked at the graphs): http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060111213408345
  28. C

    Thunderbird v1.5 is out

    Title says it all: http://www.mozillazine.org/
  29. C

    MS: Yeah, we Phat

    All the more reason to use alternative file systems: http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/9265
  30. C

    Hey, is that a pod in your pants?

    Levis is certainly hoping it is: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ I'm going to get me a pair. I think I'll wear them with one of those T-shirts that has a breast pocket strictly for condoms....I'll be all the rage this summer!
  31. C

    An interesting use of IR

    The stuff spy stories are made of: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69996-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_5 I vaguely remember Merc(?) posted something a while back about some guy who had a product that delivered audio through a focused beam of light. Only in that case, I believe it was about...
  32. C

    "An arbitrage opportunity" or "What your warr

    Dell USA Dell America Jr. Assuming PPP holds (which it doesn't), I price those 2 extra years of warrenty ~$620CDN.
  33. C

    Ipod = good citizen, mp3 player = evil pirate

    http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12936 Some of the reader comments were interesting.
  34. C

    When DRM backfires

    http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12932 Boo Hoo. My heart weeps for the cartel of morons.
  35. C

    Innovation in graphic card designs

    Well, actually, I think I recall it being done before .... nonetheless, I'll make this a momental occassion were I actually have something nice to say about Asus: This looks interesting.
  36. C

    Newz: AMD and Rambus deal

    AMD has reached a licencing agreement with Rambus .... (you know, that company that was everybody's "yesterday's villian" .... they, of course, said they weren't the real villians ... and, to their credit, the outcomes of several recent litigation suits would tend to lend some credence to their...
  37. C

    Abit: heating the house by burning the furniture

    http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20051226A7037.html I never really "got" the Abit lovefest that was so prolific across the net. I know they somewhat catered their products towards the overclocking crowd, but outside of that aspect, all too often I would see heaps of admiration spoken of them...
  38. C

    A neat little ITX system

    I like this beblu case(s). In case you're wondering, the optical drive case connects to the mothership via usb. The price is horrid though. In general (i.e. talking beyond niche products like ITX, SFF...), I look forward to the day when optical drives and hard drives shrink in size and the...
  39. C

    A Linux Live CD geared for time killing games

    I generally don't play video games, but I thought that the Wolvix LiveCD Games Edition was neat ... They write:
  40. C

    Some ho ho ho fun

    I think I've posted this before in the past, but tis the season....and anyways, at the very least, JTR might like it: USB Christmas lights
  41. C

    Compacting Mozilla/Thunderbird Folders

    Did you even know about Compacting Folders? I suspected deleted emails were being retained, but didn't know for sure until I was on Mozillazine a couple of weeks ago, looking for some unrelated info, and came across the compacting info. As the article implies, compacting seems a little buggy...
  42. C

    Kernel Compilation Questions

    There are some points in the Readme to the Kernel source that I'm not sure on. Specifically: Now, did the authour (don't know if it was Linus or not), mean in the first case not to extract the kernel sources to /usr/src area, but instead extract them into your /home/insertname instead?? This...
  43. C

    Can't post in Tech or Computer forums

    Getting a "You don't have permission" type message! ~10:55PM EST
  44. C

    Linux Partition Strategies

    Hello. I'm looking for your thoughts on Linux partitioning. I read an article a year or two ago in which the authour outlined the following partitioning strategy: /boot / /home /var swap /usr /usr/local /data His reasoning (which seemed logical enough at the time) was as follows (much of...
  45. C

    CustomizeGoogle

    Anyone using this extention?
  46. C

    Life is such a fragile thing

    Sadly, one of my cat's died rather tradegically today at the vets. I am greatly angered by this because - there was likely nothing (in the way of ailments) which warrented this outcome - it was likely quite painfull for him - and this event was all together too similar to that which occured...
  47. C

    regarding half.com

    In another thread (the Paypal one) I saw similar misrepresentation with books advertised on half.com. Hardcopies turn out to be paperbacks; full colour turns out to be b/w "international version" (which I'm entirely unclear whether they are legitimate or pirated copies) etc. etc. etc. Up...
  48. C

    FireFox v1.0.7 - something buggy

    Either the latest version or the interaction of it with an extention is causing problems with some sites - example, navigating to the Bourse de Montreal crashes FF everytime. Same with some other sites....its quickly getting annoying ... hopefully the Moz people will figure it out, as they...
  49. C

    30 second bunny flicks

    http://www.angryalien.com/
  50. C

    "An ornithological production" or "Something

    What we have here are direct download links to a very recent Apple HD movie spoiler featuring birds (and other critters and nature). The 720p version of this 2 min video weighs in ~90MB. I am uncertain of the 1080p version's mass proportions...
Top