DownloadSquad reported today on a recent Microsoft survey asking what kind of features users would use in a bare minimum “instant on” desktop operating environment. An Instant On desktop is already available in some Asus boards - a company called Splashtop implements this. It basically allows you to instantly turn on your computer for bare [...]
This is the MobileOS in action - looks pretty sweet. Depending on how it pans out, I think I’ll make an Android enabled phone my next purchase, instead of an iPhone or Dingleberry.
Time to retire my Geforce 8800 GTS and move up to this one, for starters. Can’t wait. Some specs:
Performance
NVIDIA GTX200
666 MHz GPU
192 Processing Cores
400 MHz RAMDAC
Memory
896 MB, 448 bit
2214 MHz (effective)
123.9 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
Interface
PCI-E 2.0
DVI-I, DVI-I, HDTV-7
SLI Capable
Resolution & Refresh
240Hz Max Refresh Rate
2560×1600 Max Analog
2560×1600 Max Digital
I went with the GTX 260 instead of the [...]
Last update to these was October 2007.
You can get the new drivers here.
Basically some tweaks for the driver, but for Vistar users:
Dolby® Digital and DTS® decode re-established for sound cards that included decoding in their Windows XP drivers (Not applicable for products that included a 3rd party software DVD player license in the package).
Took almost an entire fucking [...]