September 2007
9 posts
Here and Now : Solar Surge - 9/27/2007 →
A great overview of the solar boom in sunny CA
Windows XP & Vista can't recognize all my RAM! →
It looks like I need to go to Vista 64 to get this to work, according to this article in the MS Knowledge Base: The system memory that is reported in the System Information dialog box in Windows Vista is less than you expect if 4 GB of RAM is installed I’ve installled 3 GB of Ram, but Vista only recognizes 2 GB: Total Physical Memory 2,798.69 MB Available Physical Memory...
Solar power | Trapping sunlight →
Economist.com
92 Miles Sq. of Solar Could Power the USA |... →
Playtool →
Great information about selecting a video card, plus extensive information on power supply issues, which are very important for current video cards. More information on power supplies at Tech Hounds: Power Supply.
Basic Computer Setup Checklist →
Before you set up your computer, review this checklist:
Find a surge protector or Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for your computer. I like to be able to turn off all peripherals (monitor, speakers, printers) with a single switch. One of my favorite options is to plug the computer into the UPS battery backup, and then plug a power supply into UPS so you can switch off the peripherals with...
Blogger.com browser performance →
I was using the Blogger. com Create Post form in Camino on my 1 GHz iBook Mac, gforce (640 MB RAM), and it was so easy for me to get ahead of the cursor that I had to give it up. My G4 processor kept maxing out, too. It was like wading through Jello. Now, I’m on Firefox running on an 1 GHz Intel Pentium III Gateway, the Goat, with 256 MB of RAM, The Goat is running...
Windows Questions →
Here are some things I’d like to know: I’d like to capture resource usages on different flavors of Windows. Can I capture the following info from the command line?
RAM usage
CPU
Current Processes
Disk usage
I know I can do this stuff on the Mac and Linux boxen. Please post a comment if you have any suggestions for good Windows command line tools. I’ll update this post as I...
Windows Vista activation woes →
When I was away on vacation, my newly installed copy of Windows Vista Ultimate de-activated. Yet, because Vista is having so much trouble correctly identifying my simple/stupid DHCP configuration, I can’t activate on-line. I refuse to use the touch-tone call in system. Today, I moved the Vista box in question, Area 51, to the third floor office where we have a connection via RCN. I’ve...