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AMD Bulldozer vs AMD Piledriver – One AMD APU to rule them all! (for now)

May 2nd, 2012 | By

So in case you haven’t noticed May is AMD Month because this month this is the month that the public gets their hands on AMD’s new Piledriver chip’s.  So your going to hear a lot of the words Piledriver floating around and Bulldozer and Trinity and a slew of other words but what does it
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AMD Piledriver Release – AMD’s APUs (Trinity) secrets unlocked

May 1st, 2012 | By

With AMD’s Piledriver release approaching how the hell is AMD going to push the new APU’s used in the new AMD Trinity A10 chip over the 4GHZ mark you ask? Well if rumors are correct the the AMD piledriver chips will use resonant clock mesh technology developed by Cyclos Semiconductor. This came from an announcement
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Filezilla won’t load / stalls indefinitely for you in Debian?

May 1st, 2012 | By

Jesus, today isn’t my day for FTP.. Fireftp freeze iceweasel, filezilla won’t load, internet god are trying to tell me something.. Well I’d rather spit in their face than listen to them cause dammit I need to upload shit. I Ran into this problem today, don’t know when this started or why but annoying as
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AMD APUs – Is this APU lineup saying something about the future of AMD?

Apr 30th, 2012 | By
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With the APU’s (or accelerated processing unit) from AMD coming on line in just over 2 weeks it’s important to look at what this means for AMD and what is says about their strategy in the CPU/GPU marketplace, especially when dealing with ultrabooks, laptops and other mobile devices.  AMD has been trying to beat Intel
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AMD Trinity Ultrathin Ultrabook is a thing of beauty

Apr 30th, 2012 | By
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As much as I dislike their policies a lot of credit has to go to Apple and the late Steve Job’s vision for the macbook Air with how sleek and sexy laptops, or ultrabooks as they are being called now, can truly be.   Compaq’s latest designs of the ultrabooks powered by AMD’s new Trinity
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AMD’s Trinity APU Pricing / Cost for Laptop and ultrabooks starting to be revealed

Apr 30th, 2012 | By

We are seeing more and more talk and speculation about price and I wanted to bring you an up to date report on the pricing for AMD Trinity laptops and ultrabooks as they emerge. I’ll be updating this post so check back for news and the latest in pricing.   $500 The first report is
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Installing backport packages through aptitude on Debian

Apr 30th, 2012 | By

Just a quick little post today about getting Debian to go into the backports for that package you want to install.. remember that just because you have the backports repo in your sources.list it doesn’t mean that apt-get install whatever is going to install the bp version of whatever.. If you want to ensure that
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How to remove the double dash / two dashes above the signature in Thunderbird

Apr 29th, 2012 | By

Well as you will be told all over the place the double dash is the industry standard indicator of the beginning of a signature.  Well guess what? It messes with my uber ascii art signature that I created today out of a need to reduce my x-spam score and stop getting blocked by spam (Blogged
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Ever get this message when running apt-get update: The following signatures couldn’t be verified ?

Apr 29th, 2012 | By

Well I just did, infact the full message is: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY ########### With the #’s being replacing by whatever key number you are given.. obviously this means that you need to update or get a new key.. Easy
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AMD Trinity A10 APU CPU Benchmarks and GPU Benchmarks

Apr 27th, 2012 | By

As we now know the AMD Trinity cores release date was leaked and is set for May 15th 2012.  Well AMD has released the GPU benchmarks and they are looking pretty impressive.. I’ll start with the GPU / graphics benchmarks below before moving onto the A10 cpu benchmarks afterwards.  The great thing with the APU
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