HDD Killers

Matlab

Posted on Friday 28 October 2005

For those of you that don’t know what Matlab is, it’s a programming language that’s designed to work with arrays and matrices (hence the name, MATrix LABoratory). Very useful for maths, and I was taught it last year as part of Engineering. Anyhow, the reason I’m bringing this up is because Mathworks are running a […]

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David @ 5:28 pm
Filed under: PCs andProgramming
A Loss To Be Mourned

Posted on Thursday 27 October 2005

So it seems that whenever I work on my file server, a cold cathode is destined to die. I believe that brings the total to 4 now, which is around £20. Here are some pictures of the latest tragedy, I actually broke it in two places, once when I was picking the case up and […]

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David @ 10:46 pm
Filed under: Blogging andCSS andHardware andPCs andWeb Development
Buying Stuff

Posted on Wednesday 26 October 2005

Ah, isn’t it fun buying stuff that you don’t really need. (The answer is yes.) Someone at the Compter Society who goes by the name of otispunkmeyer (lucky git) managed to snaffle himself a new MSI K8N SLI Platinum motherboard and TWO XFX 7800GT’s, all in all about £600 worth of kit, FOR FREE. He […]

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David @ 8:19 am
Filed under: Hardware andPCs andWeb Development
Defragmenting

Posted on Sunday 23 October 2005

Ah, defragmenting. Just the other day I happened to see a thread over at the Virtual Doctor forums (which I joined recently). It was about defragmenting. I thought to myself, “I’ve had this current Windows install for just over a month now, and I haven’t defragged so far, I may as well do it now.” […]

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David @ 6:57 pm
Filed under: PCs
Overclocking

Posted on Friday 21 October 2005

Hello there boys and girls, today’s post will be about raping the shit out of PC hardware overclocking. Yesterday I decided that my PC could run that bit faster and decided to have another go at it, of course, we all know how well it went last time don’t we… Well this time it went […]

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David @ 7:00 pm
Filed under: Hardware andPCs