by Joseph Forbes | Jul 7, 2016 | ENTERTIANMENT, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
The Coming of General Purpose GPUs Until the advent of DirectX 10, there was no point in adding undue complexity by enlarging the die area, which increased vertex shader functionality in addition to boosting the floating point precision of pixel shaders from 24-bit to...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE
The Fall of 3Dfx and The Rise of Two Giants With the turn of the century the graphics industry bore witness to further consolidation. The pro market saw iXMICRO leave graphics entirely, while NEC and Hewlett-Packard both produced their last products, the TE5 and...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 4, 2016 | Blog Entry, ENTERTIANMENT, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The evolution of the modern graphics processor begins with the introduction of the first 3D add-in cards in 1995, followed by the widespread adoption of the 32-bit operating systems and the affordable personal computer. The graphics industry that existed before that...
by Joseph Forbes | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), TECHNOLOGY
NETGEAR routers usually have a default password of password and a default IP address of either 192.168.1.1or 192.168.0.1 but there are plenty of exceptions, show in the table below. More help is below the tableif you don’t see your NETGEAR device listed here,...
by Joseph Forbes | Jun 21, 2016 | DATA, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), TECHNOLOGY
Most routers and switches by Cisco have default passwords of admin or cisco, and default IP addresses of 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.254 but some differ, shown in the table below. Important: Remember to change the default login data once you’re in! See below the...
by Joseph Forbes | Jun 12, 2016 | Blog Entry, EDUCATION, HARDWARE, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Troubleshooting
Do you know what version of Windows you have? While you usually don’t need to know the exact version number for whatever Windows version you have installed, general information about the operating system version you’re running is very important. Everyone...
