Non-PC Geeks

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 […]

Last week it was announced that a Canadian Company named D-Wave would be demonstrating the first commercially working quantum computer on Tuesday Feb 12th. While this announcement has been covered pretty well in the press, so far we at nonpcgeeks.com haven’t been able to find any sort of coverage of the actual event. D-Wave claimed […]

Net Neutrality - It’s being argued heavily in congress, in the trade journals, and many message boards. Everyone has their own opinion on the subject. I’m not going to try to convince anyone towards one side or the other here. Instead, let’s try to get some of the issues out on the table and then […]