Monthly Archives: May 2009

PAE vs 64 bit – What manufacturers don’t want you to know

[ad#google] From 32 bit to 64 bit You’ve heard the drill, any system with 4GiB+ of RAM requires a 64 bit operating system. Why? Because the total addressing space of the memory (the number of locations on the physical memory … Continue reading

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kb/s vs kbit/s vs Kbps

This often overlooked issue is easily solveable. Since the whole computer system is based on the SI system, which only standardized unit/time, every other option is a non-standard invention by some computer engineers. So if you see people using anything … Continue reading

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kb, kB, KiB… What’s up with that?

Yet another informative post Oh, do I love myself when I make these intelligent articles that actually inform people rather than annoy them. Well, turns out they are not such a common occurence on this blog, but hey, they’re usually longer. So, … Continue reading

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Microsoft fights backs, so does Apple

Ah… those new ads from Microsoft, how wonderfully full of bullshit. I’m sorry, but no, you won’t get what I actually call a laptop for under 1000$. Simply, no. It’s already hard enough to get quality from a 1000$ Desktop … Continue reading

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Compute your head out of it

Some time, brilliant stuff happens on the Internet. What would you do without Charlie Bit my Finger on YouTube… Well, no, really smart stuff, like Wikipedia or Google. In my opinion, there is now a third product on the Internet … Continue reading

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The French’s Gender – Ugh, someone should think about making a neutral thingie like in Latin

So, I work right at the side of some translators at work and I can’t get enough of those feminization discussions. What do you do if you have both genders being addressed by a pronoun in French, usually you use … Continue reading

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Upgrading your Shared Host – Choosing between a Dedicated and Clustered solution

Making the step up from shared hosting is not always easy. We’ve recently done so with AMV-Canada.com. The forum was starting to get really slow, so we had to move on. We upgraded from 1and1 home shared hosting to Media Temple’s Grid-Service, a clustered hosting … Continue reading

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