Month: August 2005

Summary: A “fan-booster” can add to cooling hot laptop CPUs. In my quest to improve laptop cooling, I’ve tried three things on the Asus Z71A: CPU/Heatsink polishing Improving heatpipe/base contact Boosting the stock heatsink fan CPU/Heatsink Polishing All things considered,

Creators of Firefox To Go Commercial Read between the lines, and this decision really says, “We can’t count on handouts anymore, we have to support ourselves.” In the beginning, it looks like Mozilla will try to make money from corporate

For the past few days, the Inquirer has had a number of articles pointing out what DRM in Longhorn-compatible systems is going to look like. For a couple non-ranting summaries, go here and/or here. If you want to see Microsoft’s

SUMMARY: Thermosyphons – a credible CPU cooling option. About two years ago, I started to think about watercooling and how a system could be better designed for simplicity, low cost and high performance. I had some ideas on how to

AMD Releases Cheaper Dual-core Processor As we implied in our article yesterday, whatever AMD is offering us now is pretty much all we’re going to get until the 65nm fab gets cranking late next year. There will be little improvement

You can see them over here. Basically, modest decreases for dual-cores and socket 754 Semprons, more than modest decreases for middle-to-upper end Athlon 64s, clearance prices for socket A Semprons, and diddly-squat for the lower-end A64s you’re most likely to

INTRODUCTION I received a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 Pro Academic for free through theSpoke.net just by attending one of Microsoft Canada’s information sessions that was held at my university several months back. What I had to do was