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Tag Archives: Windows 8
Windows 8 doesn’t detect my sound card!
Or does it? When I recently installed a Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro PCI-e card in a Windows 8-system, nothing appeared to happen. When I looked at the Device Manager, there was no Creative X-Fi card to be found. No … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware news, Software news
Tagged Creative, Creative card, Creative X-Fi, detect, detection, Device Manager, drivers, Fatal1ty, generic, hardware ID, High Definition Audio, sound card, Titanium, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Update, X-Fi
1 Comment
nVidia stability issues on GeForce 400/500 series
I am still using the trusty old GeForce GTX460 in one of my machines. When I upgraded my drivers to version 320.18, I started having problems. Every now and then, the driver would reset, and in some cases it would … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware news, Software news
Tagged acceleration, beta drivers, browser freeze, bug, bug report, driver, fix, geforce, GTX460, GTX560, issue, nvidia, TDR, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
14 Comments
Just keeping it Metro
Yes, Metro, not Retro. Or actually I should say Windows Store App now. As in, the new interface for Windows 8, mainly aimed at tablets and smartphones. Namely, I got myself a Windows 8 Pro update early on, at a … Continue reading
Posted in Direct3D, Software development, Software news
Tagged ARM, compatible with earlier versions, computer, Core UI, Direct3D, Direct3D 11.1, direct3d examples, directx sdk, donut, Metro, PowerVR, software, Solitaire, TBDR, technology, tile, Tile based deferred rendering, Win32, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Runtime, Windows Store, Windows Store App, WinRT, x64, x86
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First Fedora, now Canonical
Following the move made by Fedora to support UEFI secure boot, Canonical has announced that they are going to support it as well. Canonical is taking a slightly different route however. They are dropping Grub completely (as they explain, Grub’s … Continue reading
Posted in Software news
Tagged bootloader, canonical, enterprise-it, Fedora, FUD, GPL, gplv3, grub, linus torvalds, linux, linux developers, Microsoft, private key, Red Hat, secure, software, technology, Ubuntu, UEFI, Windows 8
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Linux and UEFI secure boot, or: Linus Torvalds as the voice of reason
As you may recall, I wrote a blog about linux and the problems with UEFI secure boot a while ago. Since there have been some changes regarding secure boot in the linux world recently, this calls for an update. My … Continue reading
Posted in Software news
Tagged bootloader, enterprise-it, Fedora, FUD, GPL, gplv3, linus torvalds, linux, linux developers, Microsoft, Red Hat, secure, software, technology, UEFI, Windows 8
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Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 go public beta
If you want to have a look at Windows 8, you can now get the Developer preview here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download (Or go directly to the ISOs here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso) And if you want to try Visual Studio 11, you can get the … Continue reading
Posted in Software development, Software news
Tagged Beta, consumer preview, preview, Visual Studio 11, Windows 8
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Intel Medfield vs ARM
I did an article on ARM and x86 about a year ago, since multicore ARMs were up and coming, and Windows 8 would allow them to be used in netbooks, notebooks or even desktops, as competing solutions to x86. That … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware news, Software news, Uncategorized
Tagged ARM, CISC, Intel, RISC, Windows 8, x86
13 Comments
Why I don’t use linux (and why you shouldn’t either)
As you may know, I have nothing against open source software. In fact, I am both a user of FreeBSD, and a developer of open source projects. But linux never sat well with me. It’s not so much the software … Continue reading
