Cody Littley is a computer science PhD student with a little time on his hands. Which perhaps explains why he built a working 1KB hard drive in Minecraft out of virtual building blocks. Read more…
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Someone Built a Fully Functioning 1KB Hard Drive Inside Minecraft
snydeq (1272828) writes “Two of Microsoft’s kernel-mode driver updates — which often cause problems — are triggering a BSOD error message on some Windows systems, InfoWorld reports. ‘Details at this point are sparse, but it looks like three different patches from this week’s Black Tuesday crop are causing Blue Screens with a Stop 0x50 error on some systems. If you’re hitting a BSOD, you can help diagnose the problem (and perhaps prod Microsoft to find a solution) by adding your voice to the Microsoft Answers Forum thread on the subject.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death
Fondant icing is the ingredient cake artists use to create their masterpieces. Grocery stores don’t always carry it, though, and it’s expensive if they do. Use some marshmallows and flavored gelatin instead and make your own. Read more…
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Jell-O and Marshmallows Make a Quick and Tasty Fondant
The next time you update your PC or try to troubleshoot compatibility problems, you’ll may need to know your current BIOS. You could reboot the computer, but it’s much easier to use the Windows command line utility. Read more…
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Find Your Computer’s BIOS Version From the Command Line
BitTorrent just opened up invitations for its pre-alpha version of Bleep, a chat client that’s structured around anonymity and works similar to a peer-to-peer network. Read more…
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BitTorrent Launches Bleep, a Serverless, Anonymous Chat Client
Eight hours of sleep. Six hours of sleep. Seven hours of sleep. It seems like every year we see a study that claims that some amount of hours is better than another. The Wall Street Journal collects together a few studies that show data suggests that seven hours might be the sweet spot these days. Read more…
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Research Shows that Seven Hours of Sleep Might Be the Sweet Spot
Handoff is a great new feature of Apple’s forthcoming operating system, Yosemite. Not all Macs will support it, though. Here’s how to check if yours will. Read more…
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Find Out if Your Mac Will Support Handoff in OS X Yosemite
The next time you have a few dollars left on one of those prepaid credit card-based gift cards, consolidate those odd dollars and cents into your Google Wallet account. Read more…
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Consolidate Your Credit Card Gift Cards with Google Wallet
Windows: If your mouse is lagging in your favorite PC games, Microsoft has a free tool that can fix it. Read more…
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Banish Mouse Lag in Video Games With Microsoft’s Fix It Tool
Windows: If you’d like the speed of your mechanical hard drive to be closer to SSD speeds, short-stroking your hard drive is your best bet. These steps can get your hard drive up to speed at the cost of some memory. Read more…
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How to Short-Stroke Your Hard Drive for Optimal Speed