Category Archives: Tech Stuff

Say “Here Sir” when I call your name…

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No matter what anyone tells you… aside from me of course as I know more than all of them and their respective mothers put together of course… your registry is the lifeblood of your computer.

If your computer slows down, penny to a pinch of snuff that your registry is at least partially to blame. Computer keeps crashing? Could be a fragmented registry.

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The PC and the Pirate

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I was reading this article written on TweakGuides about game piracy and it set me thinking.

First off I don’t agree with all of the information presented there as adequately reliable for “proof”. There are still too many assumptions to consider the case presented as conclusive, however I do agree with the conclusions and because they don’t rely on the proofs they aren’t undermined by any inaccuracies that may exist in them.

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Factal Designs Define R2 Black Pearl – The Silent Storm?

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Okay so when I first saw this case I was interested in it’s design for silence with Bitumen coating on the door and side panels and also it’s capability to mount 140mm fans without becoming a veritable hurricane of noise.

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Phenom-inal success? Not yet.

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I know, it’s been a while.

Blogging seems like a long second on importance when the computer you use to do most of your stuff isn’t working…

As per something went cahfluey and the old machine kept dropping me out of programs and then (as the final nail in the coffin) lost all networking. Numerous attempts at resurrection were tried but all failed. So I began shopping around. Read More »

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Need inputs

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Okay so like three years, or something like that, ago I bought a Saitek Gamers keyboard and a Logitech G5 Mouse. Since that time I’ve been trying to find upgrades. It’s not that either are bad, quite the opposite, the keyboard is uncomplicated by anything more flashy than lit keys and the actual action of the keys is delicious. Possibly the best keyboard I’ve ever typed on. The mouse was much the same as it glided over my desk, was reassuringly heavy (after I’d added all the heavy weights to it’s insert) and the DPi selection was a great boon to gaming. No the reason I kept looking for replacements was that both are bland. They lacked that certain something to raise them from good solid components (ie “nothing wrong with one of those”) to something that I felt was more… me.

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Setting the clocks upwards…

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Those that read here regularly (yes both of you) know of my trials with my desktop. It is both the pride and bane of my life either working like a dream or crashing with maddening regularity. Well here’s a news flash, not only am I blessed with it working but it’s overclocked to boot!

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PC Matic

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Have you ever wanted a program that will go through your computer eliminating inefficiency like a terminator and restoring lost power and performance? A program that you can trust to defrag things, set the settings right and basically return the land to happy sparkly-ness? Welcome PC Matic into your computing experience.

Of course normally I would be staring at this box and wondering what is going to go wrong but as underlined by my post on Optimizer I trust PC Pitstop and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by their reliability. Normally when you ask a program to automatically increase your speed and efficiency it causes problems by wiping the wrong file or leave the settings at an unachievable speed and make it crash by tripping over itself, not so with the Optimizer and not so with it’s big brother PC Matic.

So what is PC Matic? Well it’s PC Pitstop’s Optimizer plus their defrag tool, plus their driver wizard (which is a wizard in the proper sense), added to that it’s their own anti malware tool and finally their benchmarking suite to evaluate all that tweaking.

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Tempting fate

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Why is it that whenever I try to get something “just so” I feel like I’m tempting fate?

My history is filled with times when I’ve tried to perfect something only to stuff it up royally. This is perhaps most evident with computers but I’ve known the same thing happen with models “just one more finishing touch, ah crap!”, arguments (the number of dead ends I’ve found in arguments is beyond count) even psychology tests!

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A minor victory in WordPress!!!

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Okay I’ve been trying to move my blog to a new location for a fair while now. I thought after setting up a couple of subdomains that it’d look really nice if my blog had it’s own subdomain too. And now it does.

The revelation to this is that I’ve moved nothing. It’s all exactly where it always used to be.

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