New Rig
I may be an English PhD student, but I also enjoy working with computers. So, it was only a matter of time before I built a new PC for fun, adventure, and a bit of World of Warcraft. Don’t get me...
View ArticleFollowup to Adventures with a CustoMac: Installing Mac OS X Mavericks on Asus...
Mavericks installed on CustoMac. NB: MBPr on desk and PowerMacintosh 8500/120 on right. Last summer, I wrote about my experiences installing Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on my Asus P8Z77-V and Intel...
View ArticleRetrocomputing Lab Page Launch
Over the weekend, I launched a new page under the “Research” menu on DynamicSubspace.net for my Retrocomputing Lab. I use the Retrocomputing Lab’s hardware and software resources in my continuing...
View ArticleA Note on Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown
Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992) is a book that I should have read back when it was first published. In fact, I’m rather let down with myself...
View ArticleBefore Cyberpunk: Science Fiction and Early Personal Computing (for the 13th...
For the New York City College of Technology, CUNY’s 13th Annual Research Poster Session, I created the poster embedded above to illustrate my current research on pre-cyberpunk science fiction (SF)...
View ArticleComputer Upgrades: HDD and RAM
My desktop PC, which I wrote about its build and benchmarks previously, has performed very well since I built it late last year. However, I built it on a budget, so I wasn’t able to outfit it as well...
View ArticlePC Computing, August 1994
The August 1994 issue of PC Computing was my go-to source for customizing my 486/DX2 66MHz system back in high school. I wanted to relive some of those tricks in my emulated DOS environments today, so...
View ArticleEVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Video Card Upgrade, Incredible Graphics in...
When I built my desktop PC last year, I opted for a low-end video card, because my graphics requirements were modest and it helped keep the cost of computer parts down. Since then, I’ve wanted to...
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