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On Tuesday we built Liam’s awesome new PC. Main features are nVidia edition Cooler Master Stacker 810, ASUS Striker II Motherboard, Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4Gb Corsair TwinX DDR2 and an ASUS GeForce 8800GT. Build went pretty good. Here are some pictures (Click for larger images)
Installing the CPU, CPU Fan, RAM and GFX Card
Finished. Cables […]

Afer moving from Ubuntu back to Windows XP (Not by choice) I found that what I missed most was the ability to quickly access the terminal, either by using yakuake or pressing F4 in any conqueror window. I tried installing the “Command Prompt Here” powertoy for Windows XP, but I’m more of a command-line cowboy […]

Now that I’m back at University for the start of a new semester I have a lot of classes that require the planning of and the development of applications. To be as successful as possible in this development it is a key requirement to have all the tools you need at your disposal and that […]

I used read articles such as this one on Ars Technica with wonder at how anyone could understand such complex and meaningless jargon, and how those diagrams of square labeled blocks could ever be related into anything like a CPU. Today I read another one, the first in a while and to my suprise I […]

When trying to reinstall Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 I came across this strange error:
error opening file for writing js3250.dll
After searching on Google for answers it seems some people are having this trouble due to malware. Malware? Me? No. Never. Well… Maybe. So I scan with Ad-aware and AVG for virii/malware and finds nothing. Okay, so I […]