Kindle 0 : Truck 1

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Don’t… Leave your Kindle in a friend’s car and then have it meet an unfortunate end before it could make it’s way back to you. I’ll spare you the details but even in it’s protective case Kindle vs. truck wasn’t a very even fight. The screen has ...

PC Case Upgrade: Antec P182 to CoolerMaster HAF-X

Monday, December 20th, 2010

So I always considered the Antec P182 (now replaced by the Antec P183) to be a big heavy case… until I met the COOLER MASTER HAF X ATX Full Tower Case. A few months back I upgraded to a pair of EVGA GTX 470 cards (for more CUDA fun and ...

Windows 7 RTM on the Samsung NC10

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Now Windows 7 has finally shipped I thought I’d update my series of posts on getting Windows 7 RTM (Release to Manufacture) up and running on the Samsung NC10. So here we go… How to get Windows 7 running on the NC10… After installing Windows 7 Enterprise and running Windows Update ...

Tom’s Hardware Compares Windows XP SP3 vs. Windows 7 RC on Netbooks

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Tom’s Hardware has a a reasonable article comparing performance if Windows 7 RC and Windows XP SP3 running on the Acer Aspire One D150. Windows 7 Versus XP: Which Belongs On Your Netbook? They conclude: At first glance, one might come away from our ...

How Green is Your PC? Estimating Power Usage Effectiveness

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

How efficient is your PC? Here’s a thought… How about taking some ideas from the peopl e who run data centers? Turns out data centers use a measure called Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) to assess how energy efficient they are: Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a ...