Here’s a quick tip if you happen to use remote desktop. If you’ve got a monitor of particularly high resolution (such as 2560 x 1440 in the case of my monitor at work) then modern desktop or laptop computers should have little problem driving the pixels necessary to make it work properly. However, if you …
Tag: RAM
Mar 26 2012
Debug Your Internet with Netalyzr
Here’s something for those network tweakers out there. if you want to do something a bit more than benchmarking the speed and latency of your internet connection then there is a great little utility that will perform an examination, give you some detailed results and also help university research at the same time. The ICSI …
Mar 15 2012
Incoming Gadget – Raspberry Pi
A quick heads up for tonight. I have had my eyes on an interesting credit card sized computer called the Raspberry Pi. It’s an ARM-based computer (similar to the CPUs found in phones and tablets these days) and is designed to run Linux. It’s also low cost as well with Model A costing around AU$30 …
Jul 30 2011
Classic Windows Gaming: WinTrek
Just a quick one for tonight (and a bit of nostalgia for me too). Back in school I remember the time when we moved away from our fleet of Apple IIe computers (and a sole Macintosh which the school had won in a Coles shopping docket collection competition) and upgraded to IBM compatible machines (can’t …
Jul 24 2011
How to Guide – Installing RAM
I’ve been meaning to get into some “how to guides” this year but found a great opportunity when upgrading the Windows Home Server last weekend. It’s my first one and while I covered everything that I thought was worth mentioning I am still working out the format for these videos. At any rate, I cover some important …
May 08 2011
Get the Best Deal on RAM Upgrades
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. These days, a lot of computer come with a sufficient slab of RAM installed (and I’d be recommending at least 4GB of RAM these days and 8GB of RAM on 64-bit systems to cater for growth). Sometimes, a computer will come with a lower amount of RAM preinstalled and …
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