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Research Reveals Internet "Black Holes"
Sometimes you try to reach a site and mysteriously you can’t get to it. Perhaps you think its simply your imagination, something wrong with your computer, or perhaps the site is under attack. Or maybe the server that the site is hosted on went down.
However, the cause could be far more mysterious. With the massive amount of users trafficing the internet today, weird things are bound to happen, but about the strangest perhaps is the recently discovered, but long suspected phenomena of internet “black holes.”
Crysis: DX9 vs. DX10
As it stands now Crysis is not the DX10 poster child that we were led to believe it would be. Maybe Crysis is an incredibly forward looking title and not “badly coded” as rumored. I guess time will tell.
Top 10 Ways to Trick Out Your Desktop
For something that you look at every day of your working life, your computer desktop doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. That’s too bad, considering that the desktop can do a lot more than display wallpaper and hold shortcut icons. From widgets to workflows, from calendars to computer stats and beyond, you can do a whole lot on your desktop without manually starting up a single program. Hit the jump for our top 10 list of applications and tweaks that make your desktop a truly useful place to land.
22" Monitors Roundup
X-bit Labs has part 2 of a good 22″ monitor review.
Adobe patches 'Pwn to Own' bug in Flash Player
Adobe Systems Inc. yesterday plugged the Flash Player hole used by a hacker two weeks ago to take down a Windows Vista machine and claim a $5,000 prize in the “Pwn to Own” exploit challenge.
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What you need to know about Intel's Nehalem CPU
Interesting read over at Ars Technica.
Yes, I actually recommended a Mac to someone.
You guys that have been around here for a while know I LOVE poking fun at Mac users. But when it comes to the OS wars, as we say here in the south “I ain’t got no dawg in this fight”. I want everyone to use what is best for them. Believe me, if I could afford a $3000 Mac I would buy it and tri-boot OS X / Vista / openSUSE. I mean the stock Mac (desktop) comes with 8 freakin’ cores! So I thought I would share this with you. [Read more…] about Yes, I actually recommended a Mac to someone.
Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X
#1: Vista runs more software
#2: Vista is safer
#3: It’s the money, stupid
#4: The Mac is closed; Vista is open
#5: Two words — Steve Jobs
Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X Hehe – Kinda sounds like my Mac Rant from 5 years ago. 😉 Beatin’ up on Mac users is soooo much fun!
Sysinternals Process Explorer v11.12, Process Monitor v1.30 Released
Process Explorer v11.12, Process Monitor v1.30, Handle v3.31, and a new blog post from Mark
Process Explorer v11.12: This update includes a number of minor enhancements and bug fixes, including support for tracking commit and non-paged pool limits.
Process Monitor v1.30: This major update adds support for importing and exporting filters, records system information in log files, presents more information about specific operations, includes translation of additional operation error codes, and tracks CPU and memory activity that it displays in a revamped process summary dialog.
Handle v3.31: This update unifies the drivers used by Handle and Process Explorer.
Marks Blog: “The Case of the System Process CPU Spikes” – See Mark’s latest blog entry where he demonstrates how he used Process Explorer to track down a device driver causing CPU usage spikes.