Another one bites the dust. Slowly many of the original founders of enthusiast sites are leaving due to financial reasons. TR (Scott), Anandtech (Anand), PCPer (Ryan Shrout) and now HardOCP (Kyle). Anandtech so far has managed to do the best and I think that's partially because they recognized and l...
I gave Duplicati a try tonight from one of my PCs and it seems to work like a champ! I will give it try from my parents Mac tomorrow evening after installing an additional 8TB of storage in my server. Thanks again! One tip for using Duplicati. Duplicati will create a local DB file on the source PC....
I had some success in using Duplicati. It is cross-platform (Windows, Linux, OSX) and open-source software. It allows encrypted backups to local drives, local windows shares, over SFTP and to many cloud providers. You can setup jobs about which directories you want to backup and when, and where the ...
About cash, while I do put a lot of stuff on credit card, I also am not comfortable with the anti-cash "movement". Online banks make it easy to take out cash because most of them waive off any ATM fees and reimburse you any fee charged by ATM operator but OTOH they don't allow cash deposit...
Where do TR folk bank? Do you use a local credit union, regional bank, big bank or an online bank? I am using a combination of them. I tried switching over completely to local CUs but wasn't completely satisfied and am mostly going with a combination of big banks and online banks. Some issues I had ...
I used to use bluehost. It looks like they've changed things up a bit since i used them. It used to be that you get the best deal if you bought a year or two upfront but i'm not sure what's going on now. They also seem to have switched to the ambiguous "unmetered" transfer limit which set...
Looks like I am quite a bit behind other people here. I am using Netgear N300 cable modem + router. This router only supports 2.4GHz wifi. Due to congestion on the 2.4GHz band, I added a TP-link RE200 range extender that connects to the router on 2.4GHz and connects with clients on 5GHz. RE200 is ...
Starting a thread about laptops that come with Polaris graphics cards. So far, I have only seen the following: Alienware 15: http://techreport.com/news/30612/latest-alienware-laptops-get-desktop-pascal-and-polaris-graphics HP Omen "Limited edition": Read somewhere on an AMD announcement. ...
As for transistor budget, I'd have nuked some of the L2. Make it smaller and faster, and free space for other uses. Some excavator leaks point to reduced L2 cache: 1MB per module instead of 2MB. Not sure how reliable the leaks are though. Hopefully AMD is addressing the L2 cache latency as well. Bu...
Bulldozer as an end product wasn't good but I feel that gave several of its key concepts a bad impression. The usage of a shared decoder was a wise move in terms of a transistor budget but didn't go far enough. Steamroller addresses this problem by replicating the decode units for each thread. I wo...
Somewhat boring releases. I had personally been hoping for cheaper models. For what I use my phone for (calls, messaging apps, mapping and occasional web browsing and camera), all the fancy new top-end phones kind of make no sense to me nowadays. Personally, the second-gen Moto G as well as the mid-...
I wrote a small JavaScript benchmark for fun. Try it out: http://www.rgbench.com/lambdastream.html LambaStream attempts a very functional looking solution and demonstrates concepts such as lazy pipelines constructed from map and filter etc, and does some runtime specialized code generation too. Deta...
For users looking for budget phones, I think the lower-end Lumia phones (520, 525, 630) might be a good option too. The 520 has been known to go for as little as $70 on sales for off-contract phones and will receive the WP 8.1 update.
I use both Windows and Linux. I have never had any stability issues with either browser. Firefox advantages over Chrome: * I usually prefer Firefox because I prefer the UI slightly over Chrome, in particular the AwesomeBar is a lot more awesome than Chrome's omnibar. * I am also not too happy with s...
Was wondering if anyone has seen any news or rumors about when will Kaveri debut in the laptop form-factor? From AMD's roadmaps it looked like the earlier part of this year but Q1 is already over. Any news/rumors/speculations? From early benchmarks, it looks like 35-45W might be the sweet spot for K...
I was particularly hoping for improvements on DirectCompute but nothing was mentioned. For example, DX11 lacks dynamic parallelism as seen in CUDA and OpenCL 2.0. So far it looks like DX12 was focused solely on graphics. As for current hardware support, it may very well be a "feature level"...
Crowdfunding projects is an interesting idea, but I guess it will be challenging to implement. For example, take reviews of products under NDA which go live at product launch. Examples: 1. For example, take launch of a new CPU or GPU. The way it works now: CPU/GPU vendor contacts TR and sends them a...
According to Graham Sellers of AMD (who I understand is their OpenGL driver team lead): osTestBackdoorATI is a hook used by our automated tests to access memory usage statistics from the driver. Source: http://twitter.com/statuses/422826826956673024 Seriously this is a ridiculous storm-in-a-teacup o...
Just wanted to create a thread to discuss if anyone has nice app suggestions about Metro/Store apps in Windows 8. Please keep this discussion to recommended Metro apps only. I know many of you hate Windows 8, but there are many threads where you can vent about that, so please keep on topic. I use Wi...
Thanks everyone. Keep them coming! We now have results from various SoCs based upon Cortex A7, A9, A15, Snapdragon S3, S4, 600 and 800 (and a beta clover-trail result)