Non-PC Geeks

Well, the geeks day job recently got moved to a new office where we’re now part of a cube farm rather than the individual offices that we had before. Let me tell you, it’s a BIG change, especially when you work with some rather loud people who don’t get that working in cubicles is like […]

So, we’ve been living with the ATX motherboard specification for what? 10? 12 years now? This specification lays out things like size of the board, placement and size of the slots, the power supply connection and ratings and such to the motherboard, location of the screw down mounts and so forth. The one thing that […]

So, you have this huge irreplaceable collection of digital photos of your kids, video of their first steps, tons of MP3s, that Great American Novel you’ve been working on since you were in college and it’s all sitting on your hard drive with no backup. According to this article that data isn’t as safe as […]

According to this article CompUSA is planning to close more than half of their stores in the next 60-90 days. They’re citing increasingly shrinking margins on flat panel TV’s and monitors as one of the various reasons why their stores have been losing money.
Personally, I haven’t set foot in a CompUSA in over 2 years, […]

Computer gaming has come a long way over the last 3 decades. We’ve seen the evolution from dedicated game consoles such as the original Atari 2600, to the 8 bit computer craze of the 1980’s and then back to consoles. This pendulum has swung back and forth over and over, and each time some group […]

In the early morning hours of Wednesday, team AVSim was making it’s final push. We had finished our final requirements, and just needed to make our way from Cork, Ireland down to the Canaries and then complete a quick dash to each of the islands before finishing in Grand Canaria. SimOutHouse’s team decided to try […]