September 17, 2012 3:24 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsLast week, after upgrading my 119 GB (actual) SATA II OCZ Vertex-2 SSD to a 167 GB (actual) SATA III Intel 520 SSD, I quickly realized that the SATA III Marvell 9128 controller on my Asus P6X58D-E motherboard wasn't completely compatible with the SATA III implemented in the Intel drive (see my...
September 14, 2012 3:54 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsLast week I wrote a blog post entitled "One small change to my PC, one...
September 12, 2012 3:58 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsLast week, as is my usual wont, I fired up Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector) for all of my machines. In a discovery that caused no excitement whatsoever when I first ran the utility, I got a display that looked like this:
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September 10, 2012 2:04 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsI'm not one to believe that my blog has any kind of market clout or impact, but I found myself scratching my head to explain why I got a comment on my "
September 7, 2012 7:11 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsOne of the interesting and easily overlooked consequences to using SSDs on PCs at a time when RAM is also incredibly cheap is that you have to take the Windows pagefile into account (and a hibernation file, if you use that feature on your systems) when sizing such drives. Though SSDs are getting...
September 5, 2012 6:24 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsI'll admit it: I love to tinker with computers and to keep their device drivers up-to-date. This requires the occasional bit of creativity in figuring out how to bring the latest drivers together with the devices they support, especially when you find a driver from Vendor X for a device included in...
September 4, 2012 7:13 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsArs Technica reported that the hurry-up fix delivered on 8/30 for Java to address a slew...
August 31, 2012 2:53 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsEarlier this week, I blogged about how Samsung is restoring a Start menu capability to...
August 29, 2012 6:01 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsQuick: visit http://www.isjavaexploitable.com/ on any PC close at hand. There are a number of Java exploits rampant in the wild at the moment, so you'll want to see a resulting screen that looks like this if you do have...
