Excursions in Software Engineering …and related fields

This article explains how to overclock the FSB on Clevo D900K derived models like the Alienware M7700, the Sager NP9750, and the Eurocom F-Bomb. This technique is NOT for the faint-of-heart. You will be playing around with the frequency generator on your motherboard. Frequency=Heat and Heat=Damage. Be careful. If you fry your electronics, I will [...]

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In 2009 I uploaded a video to YouTube showing an Arduino measuring the rotational speed of a basic computer fan. It was one of a number of YouTube videos I did as I was studying for a Masters in Computer Science. This particular module was an embedded systems programming course, with a bit of electronics [...]

Many of you will know of xeyes, a cute little app that has been around for decades. The eyes follow you as you move your mouse around the screen. . I don’t know why I thought about it ( I have been setting up unix servers lately ), but I was inspired to do some [...]

1) Back in the days of the 80486 (1995) where I lived in Coventry, England; there was an a con going on where computers were being sold as containing 2nd level cache memory, but in fact to save money, the cache memory was dummy. This was possible because the cache memory just sat on top [...]

Learn about conversation contexts in JBoss Seam and how contexts in Seam make your life easier

This is one of those things you have to laugh or cry about. The primary reason that I have found that our consolidated AJAX page is slow, and that no amount of HTTP traffic optimization is going to fix, is that two of our composited components had implemented getters by way of a database query. [...]