March 28th: It started with a C&D (cease and desist) letter on their forums… Daniel_K: We are aware that you have been assisting owners of our Creative sound cards for some time now, by providing unofficial driver packages for Vista that deliver more of the original functionality that was found in the equivalent XP packages [...]
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Online Riot – How Creative made people angry…
March 31, 2008 No comments
Prime95 for Mac OS X
March 29, 2008 No comments
UPDATE: Prime 95 can now be found on the main mersenne.org site. You can find the download section (including the Mac OS X version) at http://mersenne.org/freesoft/. Anyone familiar with stress testing in Windows is probably familiar with Prime 95. Problem is, if you head to the mersenne.org website, you won’t find a link to a Mac [...]
Detailed BIOS settings for the ASUS P5K-E WiFi-AP
March 28, 2008 No comments
While writing up an article and scrounging for information on all the BIOS settings, I came across a couple Anandtech articles for other ASUS motherboards that have *very* similar settings to the P5K-E. If you’re looking to find out what most of the memory/cpu/fsb/frequency/voltage/timing options do, check out the articles here and here.
Numbers vs NeoOffice vs Microsoft Office – making a simple chart in a spreadsheet
March 25, 2008 No comments
Here’s the background. I’m a Wordpad/TextEdit kinda guy. I don’t use office suites unless I have to, and the few times I do use them, I just want to get my task done and move on to something else. I’ve got to be able to find what I want quickly which means most of the [...]
Intel E2140 + ASUS P5B-VM SE overclocking
March 24, 2008 2 comments
In a prior article, I was playing around with OS X installs on regular PC hardware. I’ve kept a couple of the installations going for the time being, and have been using one of them to recode some videos that we have in DivX and XviD format into H.264 for the Apple TV I recently [...]
My Samsung SyncMaster 206BW lcd monitor review
March 19, 2008 No comments
I bought the 20″ SyncMaster 206BW to replace an old weak 17″ CRT that was showing signs of age. I also wanted something that would show a little more screen real-estate. Monitors are one of the few things where I’m very hesitant to buy online. Picture quality can vary drastically between monitors, and in no [...]
A couple days ago, I went through the process of installing the Kalyway OSX install on a white box computer. Since then, I’ve tried on a couple more machines, mixing up the hardware a bit, and have been through about 10 install attempts. None of the installs have gone hitchless, although with enough time and [...]
The “Kalyway” OSX 10.5.2 install experience
March 16, 2008 16 comments
Some of you may have read my previous experience installing OS X Tiger on “whitebox” computers. I tinkered with it on and off from 10.4.6 to 10.4.8 on various machines but haven’t really played with the new versions until recently. A couple months ago, I got a hold of a couple installers – iATKOS v1.0i, and [...]
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