Archive for February, 2009

28
Feb

I was on the news!

Last night, I was on the 6pm news (No, I didn’t break any laws) talking about Kirsten Gillabrand and her flip-flop attitude with gun rights.

Link to the story

Link to the video

07
Feb

update to windows 7 benchmarks

Well this is quite odd… after overclocking, the windows experience rating actually went DOWN. Another weird thing was that cinebench stopped being able to work…

I removed all of the partitions, and I’m doing a clean install of Windows 7 to see if that fixes the issue. There is no reason why I should be losing points from overclocking. We’ll see how it goes… Updates to follow.

06
Feb

Windows 7 slower than Vista?

Well I’ve been working on my article for Windows 7 x64 vs Vista x64 on my new Quad-Core budget PC that I built for some home gaming, and I just started doing the benchmarks for Windows 7 in overclocked form. I must say… I’m extremely surprised that I’m not seeing the same results that everyone else is seeing.

I thought that when I was doing the comparison at stock speeds, I would see a bigger difference once I overclocked, but even now, it is pretty much the same and even slower in some cases.

If I had to take a guess as to what is going on, I’d say that there are still some driver issues to be worked out. The parts are all pretty new parts, but I was able to install all of the drivers in Windows 7 without a problem.

Anyways, it looks like I might end up choosing Vista to run on my home PC. I’m itchin to start playing some CS:S, Crysis and World in Conflict. :)

05
Feb

Just finished my HOWTO on Windows 7

Check out the article I just finished… It’s a HOWTO on installing and configuring Windows 7 x64 in VMWare Fusion, which is VMWare’s workstation product for Mac OS X.

http://www.mikecentola.com/blog/articles/howto-install-windows-7-x64-beta-in-vmware-fusion/

I’ve had it running on my 8-Core Mac Pro for a little while now :)




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