Category Archives: General

When I heard about the new NX (No-Execute) feature that AMD introduced over a year ago, I started to get excited. Wow, we can finally eliminate so many of these overflow exploits. It got me thinking about the whole virus,worm,spyware … Continue reading →

For about 1 year, I didn’t have a cell phone. I switched jobs a while back, and no longer needed a phone. It was a nice break to not have to worry about this extra device and the coverage inside … Continue reading →

I woke up this morning to hear about the new iMac during the business segment of NPR. When I got to work I surfed over to Apple to check it out. Overall, I think it is a really nice computer. … Continue reading →

I’m sitting here with two monitors. I’m checking my email over the web. I’m watching/listening to the Apple keynote in another window. I’m paying somebody for an eBay purchase. My phone is talking to my computer wirelessly. My computers are … Continue reading →

I don’t have a friendster account (or an Orkut one for that matter.) I do use Plaxo and LinkedIn (yeah, I work for Plaxo on the Outlook client 🙂 ) Then I read this blog about what happens to someone … Continue reading →

I was browsing around the old internet today and happened on an ad for the following company: http://www.artvps.com/ They make PCI boards that will take your render times down several orders in magnitude. Their stuff works with Maya, MentalRay, and … Continue reading →

This company called ClearCube just got $25 million in funding. That is nice, but it is the technology that is neat. They have some sort of little box that acts as a thin client for your PC. Essentially, you put … Continue reading →

The 16 pipelines have 16bit or 32bit formats for the texture pipelines. Also, the system uses 64 bit filtering for the system. Even better, on the tech specs, they specify: Full 128-bit studio-quality, floating point precision through the entire rendering … Continue reading →