February 20th, 2009 :: no comments
After much procrastinating, this site is going to start seeing some action in the near future. I’m going to expand/update the WordPress theme I use here, set up a fresh phpBB 3 forum, and design a new template for phpBB 3 that will tie into the WordPress theme.
The most exciting piece of news is that this site (and a few more) are now hosted on my very own dedicated server, being colocated at Digital Forest. My awesome boss is letting me take up some rack space alongside the Neo Era Media servers, and I’ve got my own dedicated Internet IP with reverse DNS. :-)
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January 14th, 2009 :: 5 comments
I’ve probably owned every major brand of hard drive at one point or another, and I’ve only ever had one go bad on me in long-term use in the last 10-12 years — thus making me impartial when it comes to brands.
Sure, IBM had its Deathstars, Maxtor had those low-profile desktop drives (that my boss calls “Death Dealers”), Western Digital has had a problematic series IIRC, and so forth. All of these problems were mechanical, and did not affect all units of a particular model. There’s an IBM Deskstar 60GXP at my office that still works perfectly after all this.
And now we come to Seagate.
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December 25th, 2008 :: 3 comments
The bullshit is over! I will soon be receiving the piece of paper that has cost me thousands of dollars and years of my life.
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October 24th, 2008 :: 30 comments
If you have a MacBook Pro with a GeForce 8-series or GeForce 9-series GPU and you’re using Apple’s stock Boot Camp-supplied NVIDIA drivers, then you’re missing out on hardware physics acceleration. I’m going to show you how to enable this feature.
Note
Before we start, let me just point out that I’m using a late 2008 MacBook Pro (with the GeForce 9600M GT GPU). The instructions here should work on the previous generation with the GeForce 8-series GPUs, but they’ll obviously have to be slightly modified (you’ll need to grab the lines specific to your hardware from Apple’s supplied NVIDIA driver INF file and use those instead later on).
Basic Idea
The basic idea I’m going to present here is that you grab the latest NVIDIA drivers from their site, modify them to allow installation on the MacBook Pro, and then install them — nothing spectacular, really.
The idea behind these instructions should also work with a Mac Pro, as long as you have a GeForce 8- or 9- series card. I don’t have a Mac Pro, so I can only speculate, but the latest NVIDIA drivers might already work without modification on the GeForce cards available for the system — in which case just install them, and you’ll be fine.
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