May 2006 - Blake Niemyjski

Vista’s one cool error UI

I have seen this UI for quite some time. I could not post details of it for awhile due to NDA. You will receive this screen when something can’t close or exit properly when shutting down Windows Vista. In past Operating Systems like Windows XP, your system...

Published Sun, May 28 2006 9:16 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Some information on Vista’s Features

During WinHEC 2006, I had the chance to communicate with many Microsoft professionals first hand. I would like to enlighten our readers about a few key features of Windows Vista Beta2, which you may have not heard of before. Networking Stack The networking...

Published Sun, May 28 2006 8:47 PM by Blake Niemyjski

What would you do with this AMD Server?

During WinHEC 2006 I saw a bunch of really cool things in the expo center. The sweetest physical product that was on display that I saw would have to be a AMD Web Server. The specifications of this sweet rig are as follows: 32 Dual Core AMD Opteron(865...

Published Sun, May 28 2006 6:24 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Nvidia ForceWare 91.28 (x64) Drivers

On May 23rd Nvidia released 91.28 beta drivers for the x64 platform. You can read the release notes and download them here .

Published Sat, May 27 2006 7:11 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Get your Gadgets!

I installed Vista Beta2 on my main computer today, and I was messing around with the sidebar and after some investigating saw that the gadget website has went live. As of right now they only have 8 gadgets that you can download from http://gallery.microsoft...

Published Sat, May 27 2006 6:14 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Thank You.

I have had the chance to meet some really bright minds in the past few days. I would like to point out a few individuals who I would like to thank. It just makes me think of what everyone that I saw at WinHEC could accomplish if we put all our brain power...

Published Thu, May 25 2006 6:51 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Live From the Nvidia Room

Nvidia was showcasing the new Laura Croft game on a Dell 30inch display and quad sli. They also had a laptop running HD DVDS, Rafael Rivera and I made sure they were not pulling the “Sony stunt” and showing us “HD Content” off a regular DVD.

Published Thu, May 25 2006 6:50 PM by Blake Niemyjski

SMK Electronic Corp Defies Imagination

SMK Electronic Corp. had a very interesting booth at WinHEC 2006. They had a touch screen display that was beyond my wildest dreams. They had a touch screen display that made customizable sounds and force feedback when you did something like touch a button...

Published Thu, May 25 2006 6:32 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Sunbelt Technologies and x64

Larry Richman (pro-networks.org) and I had the chance to talk with Sunbelt Software. Hopefully we will be able to work with them and test out and write reviews about their possible upcoming anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall software for Windows Vista...

Published Thu, May 25 2006 6:31 PM by Blake Niemyjski

A personal experience with the New York Times Reader

During the past couple of months and during WinHEC 2006 many people have talked about the “New York Times News Reader”. Today during lunch in the Expo hall we sat down with Kam Vedbrat (Lead Program Manager – Windows Client Team) and his colleagues. I...

Published Thu, May 25 2006 6:31 PM by Blake Niemyjski

AMD Showcases Turion™ 64 X2 mobile technology

When walking around In the expo hall at WinHEC with Ryan Hoffman. AMD had on display their new Turion 64 X2. If you don't recall the Turion 64 X2 Please read this . As you can see from the photo below, It was quite a way to experience the Turion 64 X2...

Published Thu, May 25 2006 6:30 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Microsoft Shows off New York Times Reader

In a keynote speech that was presented on the 23 rd at WinHEC 2006; Microsoft showcased the brand new “Times Reader”. I believe that presentation of news and information will revolutionize the way we live. For one We will not have to waist any paper to...

Published Thu, May 25 2006 7:05 AM by Blake Niemyjski

A look inside AMD's Quad Core Processor Roadmap.

Recently Daily Tech got the chance to sit down with am and discuss AMD's KL8 next gen processor technology. In the article posted on there site they talk about the inclusion of DDR3 and HyperTransport 3 into KL8. You can view the full article here .

Published Fri, May 19 2006 1:00 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Windows Media Player 11 XP Beta Released (x86)

Hopefully microsoft desides to release a 64 bit version here shortly . It would be one more reason for people to use x64 over x86. We will keep you updated if a x64 version comes out. However in the mean time if you have a xp pro(32bit) go and install...

Published Wed, May 17 2006 5:14 PM by Blake Niemyjski

AMD Announces Turion™ 64 X2 mobile technology

Today AMD released a press announcement which details the release of the new Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile processors. Read the full article here

Published Wed, May 17 2006 5:10 PM by Blake Niemyjski