Someone was able to overclock a Core 2 duo processor to 5.2 Ghz which is extremely fast. Of course this kind of overclock would not be safe on a regular machine and is extremely unstable. The modder had to use a lot of fans and other cooling methods to get it to be stable. This was just amazing the... (Read More)

Back in the days before the powerpc processor when Apple was a much smaller company it had many start and fail projects. Someone has now wrote an article about how he was able to continue his project (a graphing calculator app) long after it had been canceled and to do it w/o apple management... (Read More)

Im sorry to whoever has missed my blog(prob like 1 or 2 ppl) but ive been on vacation with 0 internet access. So I thought id do this post just to tell people that im still gonna post my blog here. (Read More)

Recently I was at work and I needed to do some css stuff and I did most of it in notepad because the current machine I was on didnt have dreamweaver(and yes it isnt necessary) and so rather than wait for someone to find a copy of dreamweaver and its license I looked around on the web and found... (Read More)

#developed (pronounced sharpdevelop) 2.0 has recently been released at http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/. Basically #develop is an opensource IDE for developing .NET applications which would usually require some program like visual studio to develop. Just thought it was cool and you should... (Read More)

Last night the United States Government ceded its control over the web saying that it could no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. They transfered their authority over to a non-profit internet group ICANN. For the interim however the Governemt will... (Read More)

One of the biggest controversies with apple and itunes bringin about several big lawsuits by actual nations is how songs from itunes are only compatible with ipods (which goes against those certain nations policies). Well now currently for $1.99 you can buy a non-DRM song from yahoo (right now I... (Read More)

You can now put a bootable copy of windows on a USB flash drive and then use it as an easy way to recover your windows files if it crashes or just to bring your xp wherever. You need 3 things for this a USB drive with at least 256mb of space, a windows setup cd, and last the freeware program... (Read More)

If you are a programmer than you probably know or at least know of C++ well now a company called Digital Mars is developing the D programming lanugage. "D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of... (Read More)

After months of possible merger information it finally happens and I am surprised at the amount of money that AMD had to spend on this. This is a huge step for both companies. Currently Intel is the lead manufacturer of microprocessors, semiconductors, and graphics chips with AMD being the second... (Read More)

Someone has come up with the idea to create a thing that is about the size of a cell phone and you pull out a screen which uses image recognition to match whatever your looking at to a database of google images or something and then tell you what it is. Also has GPS technology. Now the cool thing... (Read More)

While Intel had announced awhile back that they would be making a Core 2 Duo chip AMD said they were already working on a Quad-core. Then more recently Intel announced that they would be making a Quad-core chipset as well this year so whats the difference. Well they both are planning to release... (Read More)

Ok I dont quite get this the new MEPIS is based off of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS(long term support) and MEPIS wants to offer the same kind of services. Now this is the thing MEPIS cost money (simplyMEPIS is the free livecd version) so why would you buy MEPIS if it is based off of a free distro like Ubuntu.... (Read More)

Ok my latest computer hardship was yesterday when I tried to installed a thing called gfxboot which is like a fancy looking GRUB bootloader that distributions like SUSe use. So it didnt work and it uninstalled my grub or atleast messed it up enough that it didnt work. So I found a couple ways that... (Read More)

After announcing the release of the new core 2 duo conroe for desktops and merriem for laptops intel has said that they are going to release a quad-core processor by the end of this year. So if you were waiting around to buy a core 2 duo or an amd 64 X-2 than you will be waisting your money. This... (Read More)

VMware has bashed Microsofts partnership with XenSource and upcoming opensource virtualization software company. They are saying that is a "one way street" and that they are betraying their opensource roots. The deal allows better intergration for para-virtualization of Windows on the Xen software.... (Read More)

Despite a government motion to dismiss the case against AT&T for collaborating with the NSA to spy on ordinary citizens the case will still go on. The Electronic Frontier Foundations (EFF) is filing this case in San Francisco courts the home of AT&T headquarters and the supposed room that the NSA... (Read More)

Now you can get some of your favorite software on one usb drive. From linux to opera this seems to be a new way to take your favorite applications with you. here is a list of some software available: Opera 9 USB Portable Firefox Portable VLC media player XAMPP: apache server, mysql, php, perl,... (Read More)

according to an article on ZDnet 80% of new malware is going to be able to go undetected under most anti-virus protection software. Here is a quote from the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team. "At the point we see it as a CERT, which is very early on -- the most popular brands of... (Read More)

Here is a very short tutorial on how you can set your photoshop to produce Divs and CSS rather than the old fashion tables. This is very useful becuase this is becoming the new way to work with web pages and lets you add a lot more room to do stuff that wouldnt be possible with non expandable... (Read More)

So im new to the PHP world because I have to learn it for work. So one of my clients is a musician and wanted a music player so I made a simple way the user could click a link and load a song. <?php $song = $_GET; echo '<a... (Read More)

Microsoft has been pushed (Massachusetts state government) to make a document format that would be completley compliant with other word processors such as OpenOffice. This will be their Open document format. Now you might be saying well I can open my word documents in openoffice already or I can... (Read More)

Ok so that latest news on the web is that Microsoft is coming up with an iPod killer which people are calling xboy. And reffered to by Microsoft as Argo (also rumours of it being called Zune?). Now there are also rumors that the release of Argo will also incorporate a online music store much like... (Read More)

Hey I dont know if you guys have seen these ads that best week ever put together to make fun of the new mac ads, but it is pretty funny. here is the link http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/07/07/bwe-mac-ads/. Being a hardcore windows/linux fan I like these commercials a lot better than the actual... (Read More)

Ok so if you are a follower of linux technology or just listen to recent tech podcasts you have probably heard of Ubuntu in the past couple of weeks. Currently Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro according to Distrowatch, a current surge in articles on Digg, and Google trends. This is because... (Read More)