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Dec 12

Power Corrupts

It’s been 3 or 4 days now since i last had a blue screen of death. It looks like it was all down to that one stick of dodgy RAM i got but today i got & installed a new power supply unit, just to make sure my PC wasn’t being fed ‘dirty’ power by an old, possibly underpowered PSU…

Dec 10

Faulty RAM!

A couple of weeks ago, i got a new graphics card and some RAM. The new graphics card replaced what i correctly guessed was a dead graphics card. I installed the RAM and that was that, or so i thought. Since then, i’ve been having some fairly random problems…

Dec 05

Are Facebook Groups Necessary?

Traditionally, a social network consisted of users and groups. A user was an a individual, a group was a collection of individuals who shared a common interests. Then Facebook happened and they introduced pages. Google+ introduced circles, Facebook retaliated with ‘lists’ and the question has to be asked now “Are Facebook groups really necessary?”…

Dec 04

4gb RAM isn’t enough

If you’re wondering whether 4GB RAM is enough or whether you should go for 6 or 8 (or more) in a new PC, you’ll probably go off to Google and start researching. You’ll find that in general, people say 4GB is plenty although it’s almost standard today (2011). Last week, i upgraded to 8GB…

Dec 02

I Want Ideas, v3

In June 2009 i set up a new site called iwantideas.com. It was a pretty simple concept… people submit ideas and other people rate them and comment on them. The site was a success in that there was quite a bit of traffic getting to it but everyone seemed to just browse the site rather than contribute ideas or comment on them. I was the ‘community’…