An Overview of TV Resolution HDTV-Resolution is the primary focal point in understanding the unique picture quality of High Definition Television. Before HDTV, viewers had no reason to be concerned with TV resolution; all TV’s displayed the same (single) resolution. However, with the advent of Digital High Definition Television and the introduction of HDTV-Resolution everything [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2010
HDTV-Resolution and TV Picture Quality
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To
Tags: Digital Image·HDTV·HDTV Image Quality·HDTV Resolution·Picture Quality·SDTV and HDTV Resolution·Television·TV·TV Picture Quality·TV Resolution
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme: Hello, Six-Core Computing
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To
If the processor market was a game of King of the Hill…no, that’s too easy. The fact of the matter is that Intel currently sells the fastest CPUs. Its quad-core Core i5 and Core i7s are unmatched in the desktop space—and that’s precisely the reason you pay more for them than the dual-core, Clarkdale-based Core [...]
Tags: Core i7-980X·CPU·Intel·Intel Core i7 Extreme·Intel i7-980X·processor·Quad-Core i7·Six-Core Computing
Fiber Optics
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Computer Cables, Computer Products
Introduction One of the greatest advancements in the networking field in the last couple of decades has been the widespread adoption of fibre optic communication technologies. Without fibre optic cables we would not have the network speeds we see today. Likewise, we would not have a lot of the products and services that are available [...]
Tags: Cables·Fiber Optic Cables·Fiber Optics·Fiber Optics Importance·Fiber Optics Technology·Networking Technologies
Cache Coherency
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Introductions, Technology
Introduction I’ve written a couple of articles on multi-core technology recently; one was on multi-core CPUs and one was on multi-core programming. Seeing as how I have got multi, multi-core thoughts floating around in my head I thought I would write another article on the topic. This article will discuss cache coherency as it relates [...]
Tags: cache·Cache Coherence·Cache Coherency·Cashe Coherency Guide·Directory-Based Cache Coherency·Improve Cache Coherency Performance·Multi-core Processors·processor
Using Custom ADM Templates with Windows Server 2008/Vista/7
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Tips & Techniques
Introduction There are numerous companies out there that have developed custom ADM templates to handle their hard to reach Registry settings. These custom ADM templates were necessary because Microsoft did not, and could not, include all Registry settings in the default Group Policy Object (GPO) settings. These ADM templates have been around for a long [...]
Tags: ADM·ADM Files·ADM for Windows Server 2008·ADM Templates·ADM Vista·GPO·GPO Settings·Group Policy Object·Group Policy Setting·Registry Settings·Using ADM·Using Custom ADM
What is a Motherboard?
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Introductions, Q & A, Technology
The motherboard serves to connect all of the parts of a computer together. The CPU, memory, hard drives, optical drives, video card, sound card and other ports and expansion cards all connect to the motherboard directly or via cables. The motherboard can be thought of as the “back bone” of the computer. The Motherboard is [...]
How To Troubleshoot an Error in a URL
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · How To, How To Diagnose
Few things are more frustrating than when you click a link or type in a lengthy web site address and the page doesn’t load. While there are a number of reasons this might happen, often times the URL is simply incorrect. If there’s a problem with a URL, these easy to follow steps will help [...]
Tags: Browsing·Fixing URL Error·Internet Browsing·Troubleshooting URL Error·Universal Resource Locator·URL·URL Address·URL Error·Web·Web Address
How to Quickly Analyze your Windows Server 2008 Performance Monitor Logs
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · How To, Maintain Windows
Ever have a performance problem, but don’t know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (that are provided). The tool [...]
Tags: OS PAL Analysis·Performance Analysis Logs·Performance Monitor Logs·Windows Server PAL·Windows Server Performance Logs