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Installing Ubuntu 8.04 on Virtual PC: It takes a village
I've played around with Linux a little on other's machines, but I've never installed it myself or really tried to use it on a day-to-day basis. So, ready to take the plunge, I decided to install it in a virtual environment so that I could easily switch between it...
Tags: Ubuntu, Screen, PC, Microsoft Virtual PC, Kernel, VPC, InputDevice, Monitors & Displays, Video Cards, Networking, Hardware, Components, Selena Frye
Blog posts 2008-05-16
Plastic guitars and video cards at SXSW
I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, TX, this week. As with CES 2008, the big gimmick for attracting visitors to your booth was Guitar Hero III. I saw at least four booths with GHIII running and, being a nut about Rock Band and...
Tags: Video Card, Video, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Corporate Communications, Video Cards, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Shawn Morton
Blog posts 2008-03-14
A cure for NVidia drivers in Ubuntu
Over the weekend I finally upgraded my main machine. This was not just an upgrade but also a migration to another distro. After about ten years with Red Hat/Fedora I finally jumped over to Ubuntu. There's a reason: NVidia. I figured that jumping from Fedora Core 6...
Tags: Ubuntu, Card, Fedora Project, NVidia Corp., Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Jack Wallen
Blog posts 2008-03-10
Cracking open the HP Blackbird 002 DE LCi gaming PC
For hardcore computer gamers, there is no such thing as too much power when it comes to their personal computer; there is only the question: How much can I afford? The Blackbird 002 DE LCi is definitely in the "money is no object" category. Sporting dual ATI Radeon X2900 XT...
Tags: Video Card, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, CPU, Gamer, Blackbird 002 DE LCi, Games, Video Cards, RAID, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Storage, Marketing, Mark Kaelin, Computer gaming, cracking open, off topic, geekend, blackbird
Image galleries 2008-02-21
ATI shows off dual processor graphic card
AMD has introduced a high-end graphics card that combines two processor chips into a single card. This latest graphics card has the processing power to top a teraflop, or the equivalent of a trillion mathematical calculations per second. Excerpt from PC World: The ATI Radeon 3870...
Tags: Card, Processor, Video Card, Dual Processor, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-01-28
The most disappointing tech products of 2007
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet blogs has a list of the most disappointing products of 2007. If you've got the time, read what Adrian has to say in his "Hardware 2.0" roundup. For the rest of you busy folks who only have a couple of...
Tags: Product, Video Cards, Hd Dvd, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-12-12
Graphics chips, not just about games and eye-candy
From supercomputing applications to financial modeling, graphics chips are being deployed for a number of research and development activities. Graphics chips are great when it comes to crunching repetitive computational tasks, which is a reason why they are making it to diverse applications beyond gaming. This is...
Tags: Game, Graphics Chip, Graphics, Chip, Video Cards, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-11-29
Maxtrox TripleHead2Go, Digital Edition: The Right Tool for the Job?
When ALT-TAB no longer cuts it for navigating the half dozen or more application windows you have in use at any given time, you typically solve the problem by switching over to a multi-monitor setup. It's usually a trivial matter to slot in additional video cards for a desktop. But...
Tags: Job, TechRepublic Inc., Video Card, Video, Tool, Video Cards, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Paul Mah, right tool, TripleHead2Go, Matrox
Image galleries 2007-11-27
Graphics card cracks passwords 25 times faster
Russian company Elcomsoft has released a new version of its flagship Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery software that leverages on GPU hardware acceleration to crack Windows NTLM passwords up to 25 times faster than previously possible using the highest-end desktop PC. Using a GeForce 8 graphics card via...
Tags: Video Card, Password, ElcomSoft, Graphics, Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-10-23
Patches not a solution for Vista design problem
Patch Tuesday is just around the corner, that monthly ritual when Microsoft absorbs a not-inconsiderable chunk of Web bandwidth to fix the design problems it's been sitting on for one to thirty days. One of those problems just might be the security breach created by ATI video card drivers. ...
Tags: Video Card, Patch Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Patch Tuesday, Video Cards, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware, Components, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Lea Rush
Blog posts 2007-08-13
The Imperator: A Star Destroyer PC case mod
Behold, the Imperator, a meter-long PC case mod in the shape of an Imperial Class Star Destroyer (that technically makes it 1/1600th scale, fanboys). Instead of the usual turbolaser batteries, ion cannons, and tractor beam projectors, this warship boasts a 3GHz Pentium 4, an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card,...
Tags: PC, Video Cards, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-03-13
Why is buying computer hardware so much work?
Why is buying computer hardware so much work? To be sure, there are some components like power supplies, most peripherals, and so on that are pretty straightforward to choose. Even some of the more complex hardware, like hard drives and motherboards are pretty easy to select; you decide which features...
Tags: Video Card, Video, CPU, Computer Hardware, Computer, Video Cards, Corporate Communications, Processors, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Semiconductors, Justin James
Blog posts 2006-10-05
Could Apple Become Games Console King?
From BusinessWeek:"For all the hype about iTV, here's another potential application: iGames. Could Steve Jobs and co really have their eye on the console market? ... "Some have speculated that the iTV may also be destined to get one of IntelÂ's Conroe-L processors, which it would need...
Tags: Game, Video Card, Console, Apple Inc., iTV, TVs, Video Cards, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2006-09-26
Evaluate your hardware solutions for scalability
Scalability, like other networking issues, begins at the physical level. When it's time to buy new hardware, don't look just at the specs of the current configuration, but also take into account whether and how much it can be upgraded to meet future needs. We focus primarily on software...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Servers, Deb Shinder, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Video cards, Terminal services, Disk-space, server, processor, scalability, hardware, memory, video card, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Software, Network, Blade, Storage
Technical articles 2006-09-11
ATI Rage Mobility/GeForce2
Pulling my hair out! What are compatible with ATI Rage Mobility M1 AGP for running programs?I have a Sony laptop and it has ATI Rage Mobility M1 AGP installed. I am trying to find out what are the requirements on software will work on this video chip. ie GeForce 2.......................
Tags: ATI Technologies Inc., ATI Rage, graphis, video cards, display, slharmer@..., Nvidia GeForce, chipset
Discussion threads 2006-07-21
GPU-Z 0.3.1 (Windows)
GPU-Z application was designed to be a lightweight tool that will give you all information about your video card and GPU. Main Features: support NVIDIA and ATI cards; displays adapter, GPU, and display information; displays overclock, default clocks and 3D clocks if available; validation of results.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, GPU, TechPowerUp, Video Cards, Hardware, Components
Software downloads 2009-01-05
Digidesign PostConform 2.0cs1 (Mac)
PostConform is an EDL Edit Decision Lists import / auto-conform software application that enables automatic capture and spotting of audio elements to picture. It greatly increases productivity by automatically loading and conforming production sound and other audio elements according to industry-standard CMX EDL files. EDLs specify where to place specific...
Tags: Program, Apple Macintosh, DigiDesign, PostConform, Video Cards, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Management, Marketing
Software downloads 2000-12-22
ThroughPut 1.5 (Mac)
ThroughPut is a little application, written in PPC assembler, that tests how much data your Mac can push through the PCI or AGP port to feed your graphics card with data. ThroughPut does simply moving data directly from system-memory RAM into your graphics card memory VRAM. ThroughPut doesn't use any...
Tags: Video Card, Apple Macintosh, Throughput, Graphics, NoticeWare, Video Cards, Hardware, Components
Software downloads 2001-01-22
SereneScreen Marine Aquarium 2.6 (Mac)
This screensaver turns your OS X desktop into a virtual aquarium. You can choose from several kinds of tropical fish that swim around the desktop of your Mac. These fish are actual 3D models, not flat images dragged accross the screen. Lighting effects simulate the sun as it passes through...
Tags: Apple Macintosh, Aquarium, Tank, Prolific Publishing, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Video Cards, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Components
Software downloads 2007-02-08
NiBiTor 4.2 (Windows)
NVIDIA BIOS Editor NiBiTor enables you to change the sign-on message text & color, GPU & memory clocks, and hidden features like SBA Side Band Addressing. NiBiTor is the original and defenitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts to have full control...
Tags: Video Card, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows, Graphics, MVKTech, NiBiTor 4.2, Video Cards, Hardware, Components
Software downloads 2008-06-19


PC Troubleshooter Resource Guide, Fifth Edition
Ensure you have the solutions you need to troubleshoot power supplies, CPUs, video cards, disk drives, CD and DVD drives, motherboards, sound cards, USB issues, monitors, printers, laptops, network connections, spyware, Windows XP and more.
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IT Help Desk Survival Guide, Third Edition
TechRepublic's IT Help Desk Survival Guide, Third Edition provides tools and recommendations to help you better manage help desk services, improve end-user support, troubleshoot frustrating hardware issues, identify quick fixes to vexing Windows problems, and help users make the most of Microsoft Office 2003.
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