The Verge is reporting that Windows 8 will be dropping the “Start” button. This will be interesting, as the Start button has been in all Windows iterations since Windows 95. It remains to be seen whether there will be an option to re-enable the Start button, whether officially or via a registry hack. I personally [...]
READ MORE »After a busy week, I managed to find some time to install ESXi 5.0 on the whitebox server that I recently finished constructing. For those looking to try out ESXi 5.0, a non-commercial license is freely available for download on VMware’s website. You can find it here: Download VMware vSphere Hypervisor for Free With two [...]
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I recently had the opportunity to upgrade to a Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Verizon Wireless. After about a week and a half with it, I’d have to say that this is one impressive phone. Prior to the Galaxy Nexus, I had been using the Motorola Droid 1 (Milestone for EU readers) for two years. [...]
READ MORE »I have been following the gaming graphics card market for over a decade now, ever since I became interested in computer hardware. Over the past ten years, there have been many revolutions in graphics card technology, with 3D graphics in games becoming ever more realistic with each year. Watching the never-ending graphics war between nVIDIA [...]
READ MORE »A 100 year old woman by the name of Kathleen Kit Connell keeps her mind sharp by playing Nintendo DS daily. She is active, lives independently, and claims that she “don’t feel a day over 80.” I’d never imagine someone at that age playing video games, let alone a Nintendo DS. And who said video [...]
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Today marks the launch of AMD’s Radeon HD 7950 high-end graphics card. It follows the heels of AMD’s Radeon HD 7970, which was released earlier this month. The Radeon HD 7970 reclaimed AMD’s single GPU crown, as it outperformed nVIDIA’s high-end single GPU, the GeForce GTX 580, in almost all gaming benchmarks. The release of [...]
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Street Fighter X Tekken, the upcoming crossover Capcom & Namco fighting game, looks to be exciting, as it combines characters from both the Street Fighter and Tekken franchise into one fighting game. The gameplay will be based on the 2D style of the Street Fighter franchise. There is another version (called Tekken X Street Fighter) [...]
READ MORE »For those that have not heard already, Stanford University is offering several of it’s Computer Science courses for free online. This will be the second time that Stanford University is doing this, as they first began offering some of their courses online last semester in Fall 2011. However, little did they expect that it would [...]
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For some time, I’ve been contemplating on building a new whitebox server for ESXi 5.0, as I have always been interested in virtualization. I built a ESXi 4.2 whitebox server last summer, in which I was able to get myself familiarized with ESXi and the VMware vSphere Hypervisor client. There were a lot of great [...]
READ MORE »The Y-Corner: On the Edge of the Network official blog has officially launched! For those visiting Y-Corner for the first time, welcome! The new blog section of Y-Corner will primarily be a tech. blog, focusing on interesting news relating to technology, gadgets, computing, programming, gaming, and other interesting news. From time to time, I will [...]
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