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The Apple of My Eye

Is not an Apple! Who’d a thunk it, here I am no longer lusting after a Macbook Air but something entirely different yet the same. After taking a look at my financial state(read: broke), the amount of donations I received from the Laptop Fund($45!), and my estimated income over the next 3 months, I’ve decided [...]

How To: Install DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT-54G v5.0

Having a bit of free time today I decided to install a custom firmware onto my Linksys WRT-54G. Why would I do this you might ask? The default firmware is awfully restrictive and well.. plain. DD-WRT is a free Linux-based firmware that empowers the consumer with many features not included in the original firmware such [...]

I Break the PCMark 2005 World Record

PCMark 2005 might be an older test but it sure is fun to run. In short, PCMark runs a suite of tests that attempts to simulate the loads the average computer undergoes and quantifies the experience with a set number of PCMarks. PCM05 is heavily input/output dependent with the RAM and hard drive drastically affecting [...]

Update: Gigabyte US Overclocking Competition

I apologize for the lapse in posting for the last week, I had been preparing and then benching at the regional qualifier for Gigabyte in Los Angeles. I flew out of Atlanta on Friday morning and I just landed 2 hours ago, safe and sound in Atlanta. Here’s a quick breakdown of the competition, I [...]

The Unpublished Articles

I would say for every two articles that I publish, one article never sees the light of day. I don’t often speak with other writers about their topic development and writing habits but I imagine all individuals have their own little rituals. My topics typically spawn from those moments when I blank out, absentmindedly staring [...]

AMD’s XGP eXternal Graphics Platform

A little over 1.5 years ago I wrote about Asus launching an external graphics card for laptop consumers. Remotely locating the hot and power hungry GPU to a desktop located platform would bring laptops up to speed with desktops in the one department they are seriously lacking. Current performance GPUs easily chew through 75 to [...]