Notable compute figures battle it out

Math nerd alert!

If you can make it through one of these videos, you might be a math nerd… https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

Flash v. HTML5

Similar to the old Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle, we now seem to be in the middle of a Flash vs. HTML5 battle for video. The reality is that Flash is riddled with security issues. However, currently most browsers do and extremely poor job of dealing with HTML5 for video playback. I tried embedding a simple […]

Window 8 – pile of poo

Initial experience with Windows 8 is that it is an unfinished pile of poo. Upgraded using the wizard and it automatically installed 32-bit version on my i5 x64 processor with no choice given…$39 down the tube. Bought 60Gb SSD for the core OS install, then found out that Windows 8 applications automatically install on the […]