Month: June 2007
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Windows : CD Burning seems to use an awful lot of CPU
Windows has two modes of talking to IDE devices, PIO mode and DMA mode. DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode is far faster and more CPU efficient, however it automatically gets disabled after a certain number of errors as a fallback position to take on a drive that can’t do DMA or a bad cable. The…
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First they discovered oil
Then at some point they decided to build the world’s tallest tower, and a tower that has turbines inbetween each level and can rotate.
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Flickr Photos
I recently got a Fuji 40fd. Great little compact camera, large ISO range and very easy to use which is great for a photo noob like myself. You can check out some of the photos I’ve taken on flickr .