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Big box markup

Posted on March 23, 2017July 12, 2022 Author cysix Comment(0)

Best Buy memory card priced at $89. Walked out if the store with it for $23 after a B&H Photo price check/match! It pays to do your online research. Also gives you an idea of the markup at big box stores.

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Spectre and Meltdown

Posted on January 10, 2018July 24, 2022 Author cysix

All my systems are patched up for Spectre and Meltdown. The performance impact isn’t noticeable on my laptop and main desktop as in general they’re lightly used. However, on one of my Win 10 development systems were I have quite a few Docker containers running, the hit was sizable! All my CPUs are pre-Haswell (2015), […]

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Next gen game engine and editor

Posted on March 3, 2015July 12, 2022 Author cysix

For those of us who have coded away for decades using rudimentary text editors, take a look at this video series that demonstrates creation of a 2D side scrolling game using the latest/greatest Unreal engine. This stuff is only a VR helmet and gloves away from the William Gibson/Minority Report type of computing. Enjoy… https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Videos/Player?series=PLZlv_N0_O1gauJh60307mE_67jqK42twB