Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on August 12th, 2010
Duke Nukem Forever has been in limbo for a while now since 3Drealms has shut down, but looks like Gearbox Software might pickup where 3DRealms left off. Link about the shutdown Here, and Info about Gearbox software taking over the project is Here. Either way check out the new updated video below.
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on June 13th, 2010
Have you ever wondered how a computer CPU is made? I have dozens of times, well today I stumbled upon this cool video of how AMD makes their CPU’s. Check it out it’s quite interesting.
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on June 11th, 2010
Mach Xtreme released its USB 3.0 Flash Drive in both 32GB and 64GB Capacity. Now you’ll be able to transfer files to and from your USB thumb drive way faster then your old USB 2.0 thumb drives. The only catch is that in order to get the full speed of this baby you’ll need a [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on June 8th, 2010
I stumbled upon a cool list of all Intel CPU’s from 4004 in 1971 to Core 2 Duo CPU’s with cool details such as date of release, bus speed, the amount of cache on board and even how many transistors are in the chip. Did you know that the 4004 CPU back in 1971 only [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on February 4th, 2009
I finally got around to cleaning both my XP3 filters for the 29 and the 45 gallon tanks. The 45 gallon XP3 filter was changed not to long ago but the 29 gallon has been running since October which is way too long. With this years winter being so snowy I just stayed home and [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on January 10th, 2009
Last years New Years Eve party to bring in 2009 was a blast as my brother, his wife, my friend Tracey and I were play World of Warcraft. When 12am stuck we ran in front of Iron Forge the main alliance castle and celebrated New Years 2009 with fireworks and dancing, it was fun. Below [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on January 8th, 2009
It’s 8 days into 2009 and as you can see this is my first post as I have been so busy playing World of Warcraft for the past 2 weeks I’ve been lacking on posting anything on my blogs. It’s so hard to step back from playing video games when your having so much fun [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on December 29th, 2008
It was a crazy XMAS holiday with lots of snow, so seeing as I had some free time and couldn’t do much outside I started playing Word of Warcraft again. My interest in that game comes and goes and right now I am excited to play it again. I leveled from 69 to 70 and [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on December 7th, 2008
Back 15, 20 or even 30 years ago I believe that a lot more people were creative as things needed to last longer. But these days it seems that the life span of most electronics or even hobby like items only last a few months or years before they have new replacements. So instead of creating, drawing or [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on December 1st, 2008
I finally gave in last Friday and purchased a 48″ Dual T5 light and a dual glass cover for my 45 gallon aquarium. I had the old T8 style fluorescent system before and it wasn’t lighting up the aquarium properly so now the T5 is in and the T8 is out. I was also using a [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on October 3rd, 2008
I installed Windows Vista on my new PC last week and so far I have nothing bad to say about it, it’s a good OS. I was against it for a long time with all the bad publicity and things that people said about it, but after a first look at it and using it [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on September 27th, 2008
I was originally gonna install Windows XP on my new PC but after checking out that it does not support DirectX 10, I decided to try out Windows Vista. I installed Vista and one really neat feature I found is the gadget side bar. I did some searching on Google and found some really neat [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on September 25th, 2008
My current PC is over 4 years old now and the only upgrade that I did to keep it up to date was upgrading the video card. I went from a Geforce 6600GT 256MB to a Geforce 7800GT 512MB besides that it did a great job at playing World of Warcraft for 4 years. Well [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on September 22nd, 2008
I finally started playing WarHammer Online: Age of Reckoning on the weekend and I like it. At first it seemed a bit weird as I was so used to playing World of Warcraft but now hitting level 7 it seems to be getting better and better. The game play is very similar to WOW and [...]
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on September 15th, 2008
WarHammer Online Age of Reckoning, the soon to be successor to World of Warcraft is coming to my PC in 2 days. It is being released on Sept 17, 08 and I’ll be one of the first to go to Electronic Boutique Wednesday morning and pick one up. I preordered it last Friday so I’m [...]