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It's been a while since I last took a look at a motherboard that I knew I wanted in my own machine, but EVGA's P55 FTW ended that drought. The board lacks S-ATA and USB 3.0, but it has everything else, from great aesthetics and design to impressive overclocking, along with a handful of useful...

This subject is one I've been juggling around for a while, and I'm wondering if I'm one of the last people on earth who would rather read a news article rather than watch it. The reason, is that over the past year, I've noticed an obvious insurgence of video being posted in lieu of an actual...

According to statistics compiled by vulnerability management firm Qualys, Adobe's software products and Mozilla's Firefox took the top two spots in a list of the buggiest software. The source of the information gathered comes from the National Vulnerability Database, a US government-run...

A couple of weeks ago, I reported on an upcoming feature in KDE 4, the popular Linux desktop environment. It's called "Tabbed Applications", and acts just as it sounds. A simple description would be the "combining of multiple applications to a single window". Today, I'm still unsure if I'd...

Whoa. Thanks a ton for pointing that out... I have no idea how I overlooked that. I remember a while ago attempting to figure out how to set up a keyboard shortcut, but was unable. Again, no idea how I overlooked that, but ever since then, I was led to believe it just wasn't an option Windows...

I re-ran both configurations (two runs each, averaged) with the latest Catalyst 9.12 drivers, and here are the results: (3Dmark is 'Overall - GPU - CPU' and games are 'Minimum / Average') ATI Radeon HD 5870 3DMark Vantage - Performance: 18698 - 17830 - 21896 3DMark Vantage - Extreme: 9155 -...

As I mentioned in our review of Sapphire's HD Radeon 5750 card, the particular sample I had "died" on me before I could finish testing. I'm not sure what caused an issue, but it happened. I tried to "revive" it, but was unsuccessful. I installed other graphics cards to see if it was an issue...

I'm anti-IDE not because of the diminished performance, but just because I hate the connector. I've had so many issues with them over the years (stubbern to plug in, resulting in bent pins on the drive), and the fact that they are just ugly. Aside from that, they're fine. But, I still hate them...

Wow, that's a long time to use that OS. I agree though, it's one of the finest OSes Microsoft ever produced where functionality and stability are concerned. I'm surprised at the sheer amount of install issues with Win7 though, because I have never had an issue whatsoever. I've had issues...

That's a very good point. But, even if four different companies make 4GB modules, that's not entirely a reason for prices to go down, because the demand just isn't there. I think for most, they produce it just to produce it, because if they didn't, people would wonder why they don't have it, and...

Doesn't work for me at all. There's no disk drive listed, just the USB device. This could depend on the controller, though. Perhaps it's designed to hide the drive from the PC, I'm not sure. I couldn't detect the real name of the drive in the enclosure I was using either in Windows or Linux.

That's actually quite cool, but not impossible to pull off with other media players. To do it with others, you'd just have to keep the playlist file (.pls, .m3u or whatever) on a central machine or NAS box. Each PC would access the same playlist file and as a result, have the exact same...

I would have to think it would be, but unless Dell has it set up to tie all the changes to the database to a certain PC, I'm not sure the person will ever be found out about. And I also agree, I hope that these people land in other jobs soon. The job situation now is so stressful... if you have...

I might be in the minority, but I'd actually gladly pay the $25 for another ODD just to not have to ever look at the ridiculous IDE connector for the life of the PC. I stopped using IDE long ago and haven't looked back. Oh man, I wish I wasn't eating when I looked at all that dust and dirtied...

I'm not sure that's entirely appropriate, because there have been numerous non-media-related uses for GPGPU as well, such as computing complex algorithms, password cracking, and even earlier this week, we learned that Kaspersky was using GPGPU for faster virus detection and heuristics. Not all...

Haha, your experience is identical to mine, from the distro to the eventual liking of KDE 4. Glad I wasn't alone! Ahh, I guess I didn't realize that was unique. That's a hugely useful feature that I highly appreciate (especially when capturing screenshots in succession like I do for articles...

Hi Greg, and thanks for the post :) You certainly aren't alone. When I looked at the results after testing, I didn't know what to make of it, but regardless of how it happens, those are the results we saw, and I'm confident anyone doing the same test will see the same thing. Could it be the...

I've made a new post on the front-page, opening the floor for more discussion. I'm so swamped in work, so it's highly unlikely that I'll be able to put any new suite to use before Westmere, but I'm hoping things will pan out and allow it. That assumes that we can wrap this up soon...

From what I've heard, KDE for Windows is still a work-in-progress, but I'll have to check it out sometime soon. I'm really curious to see just how well it translates to Windows use.

Since I discovered just how great KDE 4 is a couple of months ago, I've been using it full-time and loving it. In all that time, I've discovered a few tips and tricks that I couldn't live without, and all of them are listed here. Some of these include an inline CLI, split folders, setting up a...