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We've had many questions regarding why hard drive capacities are always smaller than the amount they are advertised to contain. The difference in capacities is due to two different methods for defining what exactly the prefixes mega, giga, tera mean. In the computer world, these prefixes...

I have acquired an XFX 9600GT card to check out the PCI-E 2.0 capability of some systems I'm testing with. I was unsuccessful getting the card to link at 5.0gb/s however and I'm noticing some interesting things that seem to indicate that this video controller is not really PCI-E 2.0 capable...

I left my house at 1:00AM and took the 4 hour drive out to Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area (it's about 20 miles southwest of Aspen, CO). I hiked in to Crater Lake in the darkness -- It's a pretty easy hike, only about two miles, but kind of scary being out alone in the wilderness when...

I managed to make it up to the top of the highest mountain Colorado this weekend, Mt. Elbert at 14,433 feet. Here are some of the photos I took along the way and at the top. I still need to do a bit more processing on them, the lighting was getting tricky as the sun kept coming and going and...

I have heard from various (semi-reliable) sources that most motherboards that are sold with a x16 PCI Express slot specifically intended for graphics adapters will not work at full width with other PCI Express devices. Has anyone heard of this? For example, if I want to build a server-style...