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- Why do you consider yourself a geek?
- I consider the whole universe of geekdom to interest me.
- How did you find out about our Geek community?
- Viewer of live.pirillo
- What are your "geeky equipment" specs?
- Desktop:
Antec P180B, Black
AMD Athlon X2 3800+ @ 2.0 GHz (Stock, Windsor 90nm)
2x 512 + 2x 1GB DDR2 800 RAM
MSI K9N Neo Motherboard
EVGA 7900GS 256MB (Stock speeds)
500 W Antec SmartPower 2.0
80 GB and 320 GB HDDs in JBOD
Zalmann aftermarket air coolers
MSI Wind: 10" LCD, 1.6GHz Atom, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB HDD, b/g Wireless, 9-Cell battery
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- I'm current a student to become a Secondary Computer Science Educator.
- What is the thing in life you treasure most?
- Being known.
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Things You Shouldn't Fall For (Part I): Cables
Alright guys, hopefully this will be an ongoing series of "Stupid tricks you shouldn't fall for."
Episode 1: Cables. Of all kinds.
Seriously. Check it out some time. Go online, and look up some kind of cable. Any cable. VGA, DVI, Composite, Component, CAT5, CAT6, SATA, USB, FireWire, whatever. Sort it by price. You'll notice something interesting. At the low end, cables come relatively cheap.
Take for instance, SATA150 cables. One cable costs $9.99. Another? $2.49 Why a $7.50 cent variance?… Continue
Episode 1: Cables. Of all kinds.
Seriously. Check it out some time. Go online, and look up some kind of cable. Any cable. VGA, DVI, Composite, Component, CAT5, CAT6, SATA, USB, FireWire, whatever. Sort it by price. You'll notice something interesting. At the low end, cables come relatively cheap.
Take for instance, SATA150 cables. One cable costs $9.99. Another? $2.49 Why a $7.50 cent variance?… Continue
Posted on December 21, 2008 at 11:26pm — 6 Comments
Google Chrome 1.0 shines, few fingerprints still noticible.
I'm on Chrome right now, and I must say, I love it for a few reasons.
Firstly, Chrome hits the ground running: Seriously. From a cold boot, the browser is up and running in about four seconds, compared to the 21 seconds that it takes Firefox to load. After initial boot, it's load time is even faster, but I don't have a stopwatch on hand to time. Probably less than two seconds. Firefox's warm load time does drop down to about four seconds, but still, that initial load for Firefox is a kil… Continue
Firstly, Chrome hits the ground running: Seriously. From a cold boot, the browser is up and running in about four seconds, compared to the 21 seconds that it takes Firefox to load. After initial boot, it's load time is even faster, but I don't have a stopwatch on hand to time. Probably less than two seconds. Firefox's warm load time does drop down to about four seconds, but still, that initial load for Firefox is a kil… Continue
Posted on December 13, 2008 at 10:30am —
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