Computers and Technology
computers
AMD Bulldozer, solution to Sandy Bridge?
Jan 4th
A dual-module/quad-core Bulldozer will not make Intel`s Sandy Bridge quad-core run for its money, but it could likely smoke any Intel dual-core processor. AMD has a brilliant marketing idea, and that is to market processors for the general “I can definitely afford $100 quad-core” market. Intel is by far faster and more productive, yet AMD is enough for most of the public needs. However, now the fight between the two depends on how a one AMD core will compare against one core from Intel. Single Core performance, not sure, but Multi-Core AMD really should have the upper hand Big Time. AMD contends that SMT technologies like Hyper-Threading overload a single-core
Sandy Bridge
Jan 4th
Sandy bridge is Intel’s 2011 performance mainstream architecture refresh. It has been wrestled into a new LGA 1155 socket. Also, Sandy Bridge will support OpenGL 3.0, DirectX 10.1 and OpenCL 1.1. Sandy bridge is a vast improvement over the previous Clarkdale/Arrandale-based Core i3 and Core i5 chips. Its performance will be increased without a core size increase. Sandy bridge is the code name for the latest generation of Intel mainstream processors, the successor to the Nehalem micro architecture. It was once known by the code name Gesher, meaning bridge in Hebrew.
New GPUs are coming out and there is a TON of confusion
Dec 12th
ATI is rebranding their new cards, well just switching the numbers from 5xxx to 6xxx. It is crazy because it is already confusing trying to figure out if I want 58xxor 57xx or 47xx, and then there is NVIDIA with their 2xx or 4xx or 5xx.
Pc in the wall
Nov 16th
Imagine just a small box, not even micro ATX. Smaller than that, and imagine it not bothering you anywhere, just More >
Setting Up Windows Live Writer With Your WordPress Blog
May 17th
I’ve been writing for numerous blogs for a while now. And it’s the same thing every time, I have to log in to the blogging system (Blogger for example), pick the right blog I write for, add a new post and remember how to use the particular editing interface. It’s the same with WordPress, LiveJournal, and all the other services. And it’s especially true for self-hosted blogs where you can’t log into one place to access several blogs (as is possible in Blogger).
Now, there are a lot of blogging clients that make that a breeze. What I will focus on today, will be setting up the Windows Live Writer (Windows Only, obviously). Here is what I will cover:
- Downloading and installing Windows Live Writer
- Setting up the Writer with your self-hosted WordPress Blog
- A sample blog post
EASEUS Partition Manager: Moving a partition
May 8th
I encountered a strange dilemma. I was using HDClone to clone my hard drive, and as I’ve said in my last post, I messed up my Windows installation. After deciding to reinstall Windows, I encountered another problem. My partition table. You see, my hard drive has 500GB instead of 160GB (my old HDD). So here is my issue:
The first disk (Disk 0) is my original HDD, the second one is my new one. Now, that 329 GB partition on Disk 1 has 100 GBs of data on it that I have nowhere to back up. The 48GBs partition on Disk 1 is where my Windows 7 installation was until I deleted it. My issue is that I need to move the 329 GB partition to the right, by about 20-30 GBs so that my W7 partition can have more data.
Here’s how I did it: More >
Windows 7 Repair CD
May 4th
Are you having trouble with Windows 7? Well, I am. I migrated my W7 installation to a new hard-drive using HDClone (There is a free version there!). The problem is, the new HDD is about three times as big and the bootloader can’t make it work. I get an error saying “Device not accessible”. It looks something like this:
I couldn’t find my W7 DVD so I could not repair it. After spending some time with Hiren’s BootCD, and failing completely to fix the MBR, and after booting up Mini XP and using CheckDisk, I gave up. I installed an old Windows XP that I had, thinking, “Oh, this might fix it” but no luck.
Creating a Repair CD