It’s gonna get hot! Squeeze 410 Million transistors onto a CPU (Central Processing Unit) chip that’s smaller than a dime and you’ve got some serious heat to deal with. Note that the CPUs above are shown laid out on their production “wafer” – before being cut up into individual “chips”. The latest chip fabs (fabrication [...]
Leave messy cables alone? As a long time electronics hobbyist, it suddenly occurred to me one day (while neatly coiling and tying up computer cables into small coils) that any coil of wire is an ”Inductor”. A “coil” in hobby-speak. It exhibits inductive reactance – higher frequencies encounter more resistance. And computer cables are antennas (as [...]
Another big security issue for your Windows installation is keeping up with Microsoft’s security patches. You do this via the online “Windows Update” feature of Windows. As the bad guys (or the good guys working for security companies) discover new ways to exploit the weaknesses in Windows, or the Internet itself, Microsoft figures out ways [...]
So, the time has come when I must take a “time out” and move the files which are consuming the most space off of my hard drive. It’s spring cleaning time. But exactly which files are those? The rather lame Windows file manager (“Windows Explorer”) won’t tell me. TreeSize Pro to the rescue! TreeSize is [...]
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