Recent content by Nazgul

I've seen conflicting reports, and I'm hoping someone can provide a definitive answer. Right now the biggest thing holding me back from eventually upgrading to Windows 10 is the forced update stuff. The system updates I'm mostly resigned to dealing with, though I've heard about ways to...

Can anyone provide a definitive answer about what this component is? It's been showing up in the last few releases, and there's no description listed for it.

I just recently got a 2nd HD7950, and I've got a couple of questions about the Crossfire settings in Catalyst Control Center. First, can anyone explain with at least some technical specifics what the AFR-Friendly and 1x1 modes actually do? I don't need a full white-paper, just something more...

I know with Windows 8 we'll have the option to sign in with a LiveID instead of a local account, and thus sync information across multiple machines. But since none of us do that currently on Windows 7, and many of us will be doing in-place upgrades when Windows 8 is officially release, that begs...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with this. I'd love to have a Twitter app for my Android phone that uses different notification sounds based on the type of tweet. I don't need it to be super-customizable, but separate sounds for regular tweets versus tweets directed at me(mentions...

I've been hoping to get a new mouse & keyboard for my primary home PC, and I would love to be able to reduce the wire count behind my desk. I would love to get a cordless kb/mouse for that machine, I'm just uncertain about its responsiveness for gaming. I'm not a hardcore gamer by any stretch...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/51019 Lucas is making more tweaks to the original Star Wars trilogy for the blu-ray release, and these latest changes discovered are a prime example of "fixing something until it's broken". Especially the Darth Vader thing. How incredibly stupid. The power of that...

I have a modest fileserver at home that has recently had all kinds of trouble due to a power spike. I got the RAID squared away, but when I went to upgrade the RAM it revealed what is almost certainly a dead motherboard. After trying to replace it with one very similar(which turned out not to be...

http://www.usanetwork.com/series/covertaffairs/ Anyone else been watching the promos for this? Looks like Alias without the scifi mythology, which is probably a good thing. All that Rambaldi stuff really weighed the show down by the end. And the cast looks fantastic. Piper Perabo, Chris Gorham...

For a while now I've had two machines I've used for video transcoding with AVISynth and x264. One was running 32-bit Vista Home Basic, and one was running 64-bit Vista Ultimate. After I did an in-place upgrade on the 64-bit machine to the 64-bit Win7 RC, everything still worked fine. But...

I upgraded one of my machines from Vista Home Basic to Win7 Home Premium(32-bit), and when I open up a folder, the row at the top containing the Address Bar and the Search Bar has waaaay too much space allocated to the Search Bar. It takes up like two thirds of the width of the screen. What's...

I'm getting ready to install a clean copy of Win7 RTM on the machine currently running the RC, and I have a question about using the Easy Transfer tool. If it saves my settings for various installed programs, what sequence should I use for restoring my settings? Do I reinstall the programs first...

I'm currently running with a Powercolor 5850 on Win7RC x64, 6GB RAM, Core 2 Quad 6600(all running at stock speed). I've got Street Fighter 4 set to run at 1920x1200, visual settings maxed. If I set the Anti-Aliasing in-game to 2x or 4x, I get a weird flashing dot pattern on the screen, but if I...

This weekend where was a power outage in my neighborhood(based on the sirens I heard nearby after it happened, my guess is something blew at the local station). Since then my home fileserver has had all sorts of troubles. It wouldn't POST at all. I tried adding a discrete vidcard instead of the...

I've recently been doing some work in Java/Groovy for my job at an Internet Abuse department, writing code to scan emails and pull out the IP Address and Timestamp information. Pulling out the Timestamp is straightforward enough when I know what format it's going to be written in, but is there...