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Building an Intel Core i7 based computer - Storage

Disks fail more often than one can imagine. Because my data is the most important part of my computer my main objective is data safety so I’ll go for RAID 1 – disk mirroring that guarantees data integrity even if one of the two disks fails. Heck, I wouldn’t
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Building an Intel Core i7 based computer - Memory

Core i7 requires DDR3 memory. The more cheaper and slower DDR2 isn’t an option. But beware that not every DDR3 memory is good for Core i7 . Oh no, they have to have a lower voltage than usual, that’s max 1.65V (1.5V recommended). Lookout for
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Building an Intel Core i7 based computer – Power Supply Unit

If you think that power supply unit (PSU) seems like a non-important piece of the computer think again. It is the heart of the computer as it delivers the blood to the brains and other parts. The blood in this context is the electricity of course. The
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Building an Intel Core i7 based computer – The goal

Somehow I’ve missed two important things to mention in the introduction : what will I use computer for and the budget. The computer is, of course, meant to be a development workstation that will replace my current aged Core 2 Duo E6600 based one. I’ll
Posted by Miha Markic | 1 Comments

Parallel computing in Visual Studio 2010/.net 4.0 slides

Just finished the presentation about Parallel computing in Visual Studio 2010/.net 4.0 at TŠC Nova Gorica (a part of Microsoft’s event for students). Audience was cool and almost everything went well, except for VS2010CTP crash at very beginning. Not
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Building an Intel Core i7 based computer – CPU cooler

The most valuable aspects for my computer are performance and silence . The later means as less possible noise producing components and as silent moving parts as possible. The Core i7 920 comes usually in a boxed SKU which means that is comes with a stock
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Building an Intel Core i7 based computer – Introduction

I am starting to build a new computer for me and I’ll document the parts and decisions along the path. Parts required for a computer: CPU Motherboard Memory Hard disks Chassis Power supply unit (PSU) CPU cooler Graphic card Operating system Based
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Change the HAL of Windows OS

I am doing a presentation on Visual Studio 2010/.net 4 parallel programming enhancements in the near future. Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 CTP and that’s fine. The problem was that the one and only release comes in the form of a VirtualPC
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SIOL (IPTV provider) managed to upset its customers once more

I have an IPTV provided by biggest national IPTV/IS provider. The current service is poor at best. We have FTTH (the slowest is 20Mb - that's awesome) but really lousy (~4Mb at best) MPEG2 (!) encoded streams. The most obvious consequence of such encoding
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Material from my "Making ORM applications more secure/Naredimo ORM aplikacije varnejše" presentation

I posted both slides and demo code from my " Making ORM applications more secure/Naredimo ORM aplikacije varnejše " presentation held at Bleeding Edge conference in Portorož on 1.10.2008. The material is in Slovene language. Enjoy.
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e-hiša (e-house) in Nova Gorica

Wednesday I attended the opening of e-hiša , the house of experiments, in Nova Gorica. Luka Manojlovič and a team of young volunteers have put up a nice place where quite a bunch of interesting experiments (robotics, optical, audio, physicall and other
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My article about missing HTC TyTN II graphics drivers published on Moj Mikro

A while ago I wrote an article about HTC TyTN II and its missing graphics drivers for Slovene computer magazine Moj Mikro . Now the article has been published on-line, so check it out if you are interested in why TyTN II's graphics performance is dismal,
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SLODUG/SLOWUG server experiencing problems

As SLODUG / SLOWUG members probably already know, the server is experiencing some problems and it is down most of the time. This is old news. The good news are that the problem is being worked on and it should be fixed as soon as possible.
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NTKonferenca 2008 Entity Framework slides

You can download the slides of my Entity Framework presentation from NTKonferenca 2008 . I hope you've enjoyed the presentation.
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My first article published in Moj Mikro, Slovene computer monthly magazine

The article is all about HTC's dirty secrets behind its line of PocketPC's based on Qualcomm's MSM7x00 CPU/chipset and is my first article being published in such a large scale magazine or in any magazine I guess. Moj Mikro also brings my memories back;
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