Much Ado About Everything

Install the following updates – released on April 9 – only if you feel brave.  The KB948590 causes BSOD upon boot (OS will not boot).  And the KB938371 (the same one causing trouble some two months ago, in a slightly different edition probably!) will cause your mouse to stop working if you let the OS [...]

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Thank you AsRock!  I cannot claim to be the reason they came out with the BIOS update – can’t be the only person who sent a ticket to their support – but regardless it’s a good day, or rather a nice addition to a good day.  You can find the update on this page.

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As the title says.  Toshiba stops manufacturing equipment, and finally it’s official.  Blu Ray wins.  Now I can hope for some fire sales of HD-DVD movies.  I don’t have high hopes – after all, large scale UMD fire sales didn’t really happen either though eventually there were a few cheap movies to be bought.  Although [...]

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To play Apple Lossless (ALAC) or FLAC files with Windows Media Player in Vista, you need to download and install several programs.  One of them is DirectShow source filter.  On this website you can download the latest version of DC-BASS Source.  I tested the installer version and it ran under Vista 64-bit.  This only lets [...]

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I tried to make a HTPC yesterday using AsRock 4CoreDual-Vsta motherboard and the new Radeon ATI 3450, released only this week.  From various discussions on the web, it looks like this old motherboard using VIA 880 Ultra chipset does not fully implement PCI Express specification.  It only has 4 lanes where 16 are supported by [...]

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I was not expecting that.

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I have never seen as much functionality added with a “minor” update. Not to a mainstream consumer product at any rate. Or perhaps my memory is short, and this used to be the norm – I would not be surprised.

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Well, I never doubted reports of Xbox360 consoles dying in large numbers, but I never knew how likely it was to happen. Seven and a half months later, it happened to me too. All it took is playing back a HD-DVD for 10 minutes while it was 30C in my apartment. The box froze. After [...]

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If you often have a need to extract audio from CDs into any sort of digital audio file on your computer, and you know a thing or two about audio and computers, you’ve probably heard of Exact Audio Copy (EAC for short). At least if you use Windows. If you use EAC for this task, you are probably interested in which optical drive will provide you with best quality and highest extraction speed.

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New firmware 1.5 for PS3 fixes PS2 game rendering.

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