video memory Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:40:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 The 15-second rule and other (non) myths https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-15-second-rule-and-other-non-myths/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-15-second-rule-and-other-non-myths https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-15-second-rule-and-other-non-myths/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:35:21 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=2782 Cnet investigated some computer wise tales, myths, conventional wisdom, or whatever else you want to call it. The one I take the most issue with is the 15-second rule. They asked Geek Squad, and, as a long, long-ago Best Buy employee,

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-15-second-rule-and-other-non-myths/feed/ 1 2782 Using video memory as a ramdisk in Linux https://dfarq.homeip.net/using-video-memory-as-a-ramdisk-in-linux/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-video-memory-as-a-ramdisk-in-linux Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:58:54 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1672 An old idea hit me again recently: Why can't you use the memory that's sitting unused on your video card (unless you're playing Doom) as a ramdisk? It turns out you can, just not if you're using Windows. Some Linux people have been doing <a href="http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html">it</a> for two years.<p>

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]]> 1672 Caveats with LCD flat-panel monitors https://dfarq.homeip.net/caveats-with-lcd-flat-panel-monitors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=caveats-with-lcd-flat-panel-monitors Sun, 22 May 2005 17:55:30 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1446 I just took a phone call from someone who bought an LCD flat-panel and couldn't figure out why it looked so great in the store but was purely horrible on his PC at home.

He ran into a bunch of problems that some might instinctively avoid but to others would be much less than obvious.

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]]> 1446 Straight talk on cheap laptops https://dfarq.homeip.net/straight-talk-on-cheap-laptops/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=straight-talk-on-cheap-laptops https://dfarq.homeip.net/straight-talk-on-cheap-laptops/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2002 03:36:44 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=253 I've been getting lots of traffic ever since we started talking about the Sotec 3120x laptop here last week. It looks like an era of inexpensive laptops is about to arrive, because the Sotec isn't your only choice.

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/straight-talk-on-cheap-laptops/feed/ 6 253 Another RISC platform for Linux https://dfarq.homeip.net/another-risc-platform-for-linux/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-risc-platform-for-linux https://dfarq.homeip.net/another-risc-platform-for-linux/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2002 06:50:27 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=509 Vintage workstations. I've read two articles this past week about running Linux or another free Unix on vintage hardware.

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