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Informational blogging by Matthew Gadient.

Browsing Posts published in August, 2009

The MSI GT735 is a nice affordable gaming notebook computer currently going for around $1000 CDN. Here’s the issue though – the model we got from NCIX has 4GB of RAM, yet it comes with 32-bit Windows Vista. As most people are well aware, the 32-bit version caps out at a little over 3GB of [...]

If you’re using VLC for Mac OS X and playing files over the network, you might be noticing some stutter, lag, delay, freezing, etc every so often. Basically your video’s happily playing along, and the screen will freeze for 2 or 4 seconds, then play again. You may also find that Quicktime DOESN’T stutter or [...]

After years of not having to worry about wireless, I was forced to buy a new router to replace a fried one (lightning) and was now looking at wireless-N. Where I was stuck was trying to figure out was if I should be going for one of these “Dual-Band” Wireless-N thingies or not. They supported [...]

Oct 25 2009 Update: before plunking down money on a paid anti virus program with activation, you may want to read http://mattgadient.com/2009/10/25/anti-virus-software-and-activation-why-free-just-might-be-better-than-paid/ With the final version of Windows 7 finally being released by Microsoft on Technet, and having a subscription, I decided it was time to grab a copy and start playing with some anti-virus [...]