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@Geri · 1 month ago
Video game size and system requirements
It surprises me how the smartest people on the face of earth (video game developers) are at the same time, the stupidest people. At least, when it comes down to calibrating the system requirements for...
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@Geri · 1 year ago
Gaming without an AGP port after 2000
The AGP port was introduced in 1997. Before this, most 3D cards used the PCI port, but most of the graphics card manufacturers decided to switch to AGP. Even the existing products got an AGP version,...
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@Geri · 1 year ago
The Autistic Manchildren Gamer
The Autistic Manchild Gamer got very excited. His noVideo PooForce 9998GTX finally arrived. Despite he is less useful to the economy than a hailstorm, he was able to save the money (2999 American...
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@Geri · 1 year ago
Upgrading a Pentium 4
The LGA775 platform was one of the most famous platforms by Intel. Its still widely used today. Right now, if you see a random computer, this will be the architecture it was built around. In this arti...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
Final Matrox GPU: the M9120
In this test, the final GPU of Matrox will be showcased. When someone talks about graphics cards and chips for personal computers, most people are aware of the solutions by nVidia, AMD and Intel. Ther...
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@JLoberiza · 2 years ago
Scratch Is A Fun Way To Learn Programming
October 10, 2022, Post No 224 I first encountered scratch more than 10 years ago. I was teaching full-time back then. I wanted to introduce it to our school. However, it was not part of the curriculu...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
Tutorial: Reflowing a graphics card
When the video card starts to die, strange thing will occur on the system. Your video card maybe produces garbled screen on desktop. Maybe pixels are jumping around on the screen. Maybe lines appear o...
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@l2dy · 2 years ago
How AWS IAM Roles Work
Background AWS recommends using IAM roles instead of long-term access keys, and have dutifully applied this principle to their SaaS offering like Amazon OpenSearch Service. However, this has introduc...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
Was the GeForce2MX a scam?
When the year 2000 has arrived, nVidia increased its advertisement campaign to new levels. The new, upcoming GeForce2 line graphics cards were arriving the market. All of the gamemags and pc magazines...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
Gamer graphics cards for $10
I decided to compare 10$ gamer graphics cards. The point of this test is, to see the potential of cheap second-hand graphics cards. Observe, if they can run relatively modern games, and to measure, wh...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
Computer chip sanctions against Russia
Last year i already have written an article about the situation in Ukraine. I thought there will be no point to discuss this issue further, but i have decided to write a small analyzis on the chip san...
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@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago
What's in an (Graphics) API?
In the beginning, there was software rendering Ever since the late 1970s and early 1980s, we had both video game consoles and personal computers. One was obviously geared towards entertainment, the...
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@wabinab · 2 years ago
Update on Near API JS with Rails
Just an update on the previous article on Rails with NEAR-API-JS; we didn't manage to make the frontend and backend works fine. In fact, we have two buttons for login and logout existing concurrentl...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
AGP vs PCI - the final battle
The AGP port was introduced in 1997, and it promised bigger bandwidth for graphics cards. Motherboard manufacturers started to add AGP port on motherboards after 1998-1999. Before that, graphics cards...
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@wabinab · 2 years ago
NEAR API with Ruby on Rails: An update, A summary
Previously one wrote about NEAR API JS with Rails 7 . After first written, one made several edits to the article here and there to the point it's not smooth anymore. Reason is, it fails. Yeah... Let...
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@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago
Someone ought to make a tier list
Someone ought to make a tier list Let's say, that hypothetically, you decided to write a video game, and also decided to develop your own in-house game engine for it, rather than use an existing one....
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@Geri · 2 years ago
Overview of the Slot-1/Socket 370 motherboards
Nowadays, motherboards are designed to be compatible with only one generation of processors. After one or two generation, manufacturers are switching to another processor sockets. Back then, this was...
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@Rucknium · 2 years ago
Update on CashFusion Red Team Phase One Flipstarter
It is about time that I give a progress update on my CashFusion Red Team Phase One Flipstarter . As a reminder, the long term goal of CashFusion Red Team is to investigate any weaknesses in the Cas...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
The truth about the 5G technology
Recently, a lot of friends contacted me about rumors with the new 5G cell phone technology. Various rumors floating around, such as, it causes cancer, or other illness, causes problems with airplanes...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
Budget gaming PC from 2004
This article will showcase how it felt to build a low-end gaming PC in 2004. It also contains benchmarks from 11 popular video cards from that era, and explains the problems and hardships that occured...
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@spacesXX · 2 years ago
Top ten programming language
The Master of Science in Computer Science Online program at Northeastern University is specifically designed for students who want to move into Computer Science from another field of study. "Our goa...
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@BrechtRyckaert · 2 years ago
Announcing WP Sweeper
Announcing WP Sweeper “A new way to clean hacked WordPress sites” I’ve spent the past couple of years learning and writing shell scripts. I’m also passionate about WordPress. As I’m often asked to c...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
nVidia is slowing down old video cards? Or not.
I was curious to see if nVidia is slowing down older video cards with newer drivers, such as the GeForce 8800 era cards. In the late 90s, nVidia indeed slowed down TNT1 and TNT2 card with the newer dr...
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@Geri · 2 years ago
Floppies and SD cards: The history of data storage
In this article, i will explain and showcase how computer data storage was developed. Instead of merely quoting raw data, i will explain the phases of each era, and the reasons, pros, cons for each da...
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@Geri · 3 years ago
SMR: The future of hard disk technology
Hard disk technology failed to increase storage capacity in the past decade. By 2010 a typical high-end and mid-range PC had 1-2TB hard drives, and this was the case till recently. With SMR technology...
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@dr.unstoppable · 3 years ago
BCH NFTs that do Smart things
I’m a programmer who loves to make street art. I'm working on an NFT system that expands the functionality of BCH SLP thus avoiding the gas prices of ETH. I intend to work with the community to develo...
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@Geri · 3 years ago
GeForce video card panic buying
The price of obsolete, 10-15 year old nVidia graphics cards started to suddenly skyrocket in Europe. As its a wide known phenomenon, the new generations of graphics cards became pretty expensive last...
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@dr.unstoppable · 3 years ago
Compiling GS++
This article is intended for the GS++ developers. I hope other people find it useful. I want to run a BCH SLP graph search server, but I’m having trouble compiling the code. About me: I have a de...
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@ppopescu · 3 years ago
You should always do server-side validation! Always!
**Original article with another example on my personal website( https://petrepopescu.tech/2021/01/you-should-always-do-server-side-validation-always/ )** Web technologies have evolved a lot in the pa...
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@Geri · 3 years ago
Retroshare: a new/old replacement for torrent and DC++
Platforms like Facebook, Reddit, and Discord are dangerous. These platforms violate freedom of speech, they are a threat to the national security. Facebook were banning users and asking for their ID c...
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