Geek2eak

As you can see from the title, this is not my usual technical or even super geeky topic, but a more day to day thing that sprung to mind after observing people around me in my trip back to college. I was only gone for a year, but in that time a change seems to [...]

Firstly, I must say that it is really nice to see Microsoft releasing such an open preview of Windows 8, saving me the trouble of finding a torrented preview or beta. Also, I am happily surprised to see some real changes going on in Windows, both inside and out.As far as the core of the [...]

This post is my second installment in the Design Idea of the Day, and today’s is a business plan outline for a local business called Open Shop. Positioning: The local garage away from home with everything needed for any project.  Product: The use of and training with sophisticated machinery for hobbyist projects, as well as [...]

This will be part of an ongoing series I will be doing every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to get myself to contribute more to this blog. DID stands for Design Idea of the Day, and while the name is a work in progress the concept is simple. Every other weekday, I’ll be posting a design [...]

After looking through the range of articles (see bottom) exploring AMD’s nearly-released mobile APU Llano, two thoughts spring to mind. One, most every reviewer sees both a current advantage as well as future potential in this new platform approach. Two, not all, but many readers and commenters are either unimpressed or argumentatively confused. Now I [...]

As part of an ongoing series that I’ll be creating, taking advice/suggestions on, and iterating continually, I’ll try and do my best here to explain the basic parts of a present day computer that you may, or may not, have heard about already. If you already know this, feel free to skip it, but then [...]

Looking back, my last post on my Bulldozer Predictions was obnoxiously technical, so I thought I’d try to balance things a bit by doing a fun review I’ve been putting off for far too long. At my last Wondercon, I was in the middle of my usual tactic of perusing the independent and small booths [...]

My first stab at the “Building a PC” 2eak is taking much longer than I anticipated, so I thought I’d fill all this empty space with a quick write up on my expectations and wild predictions of AMD’s upcoming Bulldozer processor architecture, especially in comparison with Intel’s current Sandy Bridge (and therefore Ivy Bridge) architecture. [...]

Alright, so this post has been sitting stagnant and dying for quite some time now, so I figure it’s time for a status update. I do have a somewhat finished draft of the full Part 1 of the article, but it is long. Like, really long, absurdly long even…okay, no dirty jokes here. Anyways, it’s [...]