Started up the computer, everything fired up normally, no signal from the video card to the computer. None, the monitor stays in power save mode. Tried hooking up another monitor to the video card, nothing there either. System doesn’t detect the card at all. Plugged the flat panel into a different computer, it doesn’t work either. My question is, is it the card? Or worse, could it be the PCI express slot? Any ideas?
Archive for the “Tech STuff” CategoryInteresting article about the techology used by the NFL for the Superbowl and most broadcasts of games. Now that you guys have posted your new computer set-ups/rigs whatever. Here is the keyboard you should be using. It is called the Optimus Maximus. Each key has an OLED display. I think the resolution is 48X48 pixels and 2cm by 2cm big. The best part is each can be assigned a color or image or both. So imagine you want a key set to launch Firefox, well you can assign the Firefox logo to that key. Very cool. Here is a video to see it in action. http://www.5min.com/Video/Get-to-Know-the-Optimus-Maximus-Keyboard-4234946 It’s not the end all, beat all benchmark for a computer.. (is there one?) but SuperPi mod 1.5 popular little program to gauge changes in the speed of your computer for overclocking changes you make, etc… It calculates Pi out to however many decimal places you want.. 1 million is the one most of the overclocking community use when referencing SuperPi numbers.. It uses a long established Gauss-Legendre algorithm. Don’t look at me.. there are lots of people that can look at formula like that and “read” it and understand it just by looking.. I ain’t one of them. I haven’t known any of them for almost 25 years now either. There are faster ways of calculating Pi to 1M spots but that’s not the point. My current 1M Super Pi score.. 21.356 seconds. It used to take 35 minutes to get 1M spots back in the days of 90MHz Pentium PC. 2.8 GHz E4300 Core2Duo (default 1.8 GHz) (the fastest I can get it to run 100% stable..boooo a <b>lot</b> of these CPU’s will clock up to 3.2 and 3.4 with minimal cooling and slightly bumped voltages. I’m gonna need a fan on my motherboard’s northbridge though to get 3.0 GHz or above I’ve deduced. 2 Gb PC6400 RAM at 2T 4-4-4-12 at 311MHz 7200RPM 16Mb buffer WD 320G HD Gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard. Scientist trying to cure cancer, burns water. Looks like it will need a lot of testing and money to find out what applications it might be useful for, if any. Somehow I feel it’s going to be fairly inefficient but who knows yet? That’s right, nobody. Yet. This (kinda uninformed seemingly and suprisingly) bit over on TorrentFreak about Media Defender’s (anti-piracy group) using bogus file chunks and torrents to muddle up peoples downloads..
The funniest comments about it are those who indignantly cry out “Shouldn’t there be laws against spoofing and spamming? It’s just creating unecessary internet traffic.” as if their illegal downloading of copywrited material wouldn’t fall under the same classification?! http://media-convert.com/convert/index.php Convert media formats to just about anything you could need to change to something you can use.. audio, video, images, Office docs, spreadsheets, PDF, mobile phone stuff (they’ve got a midi sequencer too so you can make your own music and send to your phone for ring-tones), encode UTF-8 (or like 900 other character sets).. Can resize images and change compression rates, split audio, extract frames from video.. the list goes on. Well hell.. just go look! And you don’t have to install anything.. done over the ‘net.
I don’t think I’ll be getting Vista for a year or so.. probably not until I have some hardware that has no WinXP drivers.. or there’s some game compelling enough that requires directX 10. That’s gonna be awhile me thinks. Still looking for a router? Check out this Linksys router… You won’t find a better one cheaper. Whatever you do, don’t buy a Linksys with the “SpeedBooster techology”. The version 5.x of them (the ones out there now) really suck. This is a good one though, well reviewed and cheap.. $40 after the $15 rebate and there’s free shipping on it right now.
Ever wonder how to get one of those for your website? It’s as easy as having the icon and adding this one line to your index page:
As for getting one made, it’s simple. You just need to convert any picture into a 16×16 icon file.. easiest way is to do it free and online at http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/. Once there choose the “browse button” to upload it from your computer or tell it where to find it online. Follow simple instructions and download your image in it’s new .ico format. If you need me to make up some graphic for you, for some reason, contact me and I’ll help out. But you can use bitmap from paint if you have to! You can use numerous icon creating software too, but that website is just so much faster and easier. Did I mention free? =) Bookmark this site and next time you restart your browser it will be there. |
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Have you seen those cool little icons in web browser address bars and next to saved bookmarks? They are called “favicons” for “favorites icon”. You won’t see them until you (re)bookmark a website that uses one. Once bookmarked, a websites’ favicon will show up in the address bar and favorites/bookmarks menu.
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