Just a quick post with the details of how I improved cooling and lowered noise in my main PC simply by moving the case fans…
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Eficiência PSU 2 — A typical gaming PC
Following on from the slight surprise that a new PSU is a poor investment for a low power PC I decided I’d reassure myself that an efficient PSU is a good investment for a typical “enthusiast” PC.
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Low power PC — new or old PSU
I have a server that operates 24.7. It occurred to me that I may be able to save some money on electricity bills if I could reduce its power consumption. It already has a low power AMD Sempron LE-1100 CPU so the power draw of the system should be quite low, mas o PSU is quite old and not especially efficient. This got me thinking about Power supplies designed for low power systems. There are plenty of 80+ certified PSU’s out there with 500+ watt ratings, but are these actually worth the investment for a low power system?
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The case for x64 browsers?
I’ve recently been using Firefox 4 64bit prebeta, also known as Minefield. I thought it would be interesting to compare various browsers to see if this supports my feeling that Minefield is the fastest browser I’ve used. The conclusions are quite interesting. I will continue to update this table as new versions are released
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Maneiras simples para tornar seu PC mais rápido
Há muitas dicas e conselhos lá fora, na internet sobre como ajustar o desempenho do seu PC. Alguns deles têm algumas dicas úteis, mas a grande maioria são de muito pouca utilidade, ou porque são para o sistema operacional errado, ou eles não se aplicam a sua configuração, ou porque eles são simplesmente errado. Quando alguém traz um PC para mim e diz que a sua muito lento, antes que eu aconselhá-los para atualizá-lo (e que é sempre uma opção) Eu dou uma olhada rápida em várias coisas que são a principal causa do desempenho lento do PC. Sobre 90% do tempo de realização das diversas etapas detalhadas abaixo resulta em uma melhoria substancial e um usuário de PC feliz.
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Firefox 64bit
For those people running a 64bit version of Windows here are links to Firefox 64bit and various plugins to go with it…
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PHP / JavaScript para acordar um PC remotamente
Eu tenho um HTPC and a network server on my network. My server is always on, mas o HTPC sleeps when it is not in use. If I want to schedule recordings remotely I need a way to wake the HTPC. The solution I came up with is to provide a webpage on my server (password protected) e um servidor de rede na minha rede HTPC and then redirects to the web interface of the remote control app of the HTPC. Below is the code for anyone interested…
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Quizdom tablet “video capture” not working
I was asked to investigate why some video capture utility which is part of the software package for the Quizdom Tablet wasn’t loading correctly on a particular laptop. Investigation revealed that quizdom used the XviD codec and installs it as part of its setup routine. The laptop in question already had a video codec installed that was capable of decoding XviD videos, and this prior codec had a higher merit than the XviD native codec installed by quizdom. Disabling XviD support in this codec proved to be the solution. Anyone with the standalone MPC-HC codecs or ffdshow installed may come across this problem
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TomTom alertas Speedcam - inc zona euro
Like many people I use a TomTom sat nav, and I’m a big fan of the speed camera database provided by PocketGPSWorld. It is also possible to download some nice alerts a partir de PGPSW, but I find the beeps are rather annoying, and the maximum speed supported is 70, which is fine for the Reino Unido, but isn’t very helpful for maps of Europe. As a result I have mashed together an alternative set that I think are much nicer. Get them from the [intlink id=“741” type=“page”]de downloads[/intlink] page. They work for both Reino Unido and Euro maps. The Euro ones go up to 130. Both sets have a nicer voice (female) and a nicer alert beep. By all means try them out. They install and operate exactly the same as the ones offered by PGPSW, if you need help installing them have a look there.
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Adding a print icon to print individual blog posts
In addition to this blog I also have a blog about recipes. I decided that I wanted a print icon on the main page for each post so that people can print the recipes. Googling provided various suggestions, none of which worked. However, I eventually cobbled together the following, which seems to work…
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“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”