Archive for May, 2008

Click to View "Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Review"

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

I have played many first person shooter games, but I’ve never played one like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2. I haven’t played the other Rainbow Six games, so I can’t make comparisons (I do believe that this has altered my opinion of the game - if you’ve played older games in the series it will probably [...]

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Click to View "nVidia Acquires Ageia (PhysX)"

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I was apparently hiding under a rock when this happened (as many of us were, I’m sure), but nVidia acquired Ageia. This is excellent! If you don’t know why, read on…
Ageia, if you don’t recall, is that strange little company that designed a really smooth physics engine that many games picked up (approximately 140 give [...]

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Click to View "Spyware and Viruses - The Truth"

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Before you read, note that this article is meant for the less technically adept, those who would normally worry about a virus. If you’re the type who’s been reading my GPU comparisons, overclocking instructions, or processor workings articles, you probably belong on one of those pages instead, heheh.
The amount of concern for spyware and viruses [...]

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Click to View "Speed Up Your Boot Time"

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

If you’re using XP or Vista (and what else would you complain about boot time on?), here’s a quick tip to speed up the booting process.

Open the “msconfig” tool, using Run, Start Search, or navigating to it in explorer. You can also do this by hand in the boot.ini file, if you prefer to get your [...]

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Click to View "Dell’s Improved Keyboard Layout"

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Dell has done numerous silly or even stupid things in the past, but this one’s just plain special. Check out this keyboard layout:

And forget trying to actually hit the “\” key. Every time I look at this keyboard I find something else wrong with it. Some sort of foreign layout was shipped across Europe, to an “unspecified” [...]

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Click to View "Overclocking Your Core 2 Duo"

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Disclaimer: Overclocking can be dangerous. While you should achieve a good overclock by following this guide, I do not take responsibility for any damage that may occur. Overclocking is your choice.

Since this processor is now becoming more than dominant on the market, I thought it only appropriate to share what I’ve gleaned in my long [...]

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