According to this press release, nVidia will acquire Ageia Technologies. Yeap! The well known physics software and hardware vendor. In my mind this means that the future nVidia based accelerators will support physics acceleration, too. It will basically mean the death of the PhysX processor, since the GPU can do that easily with no […]
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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies
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February 6, 2008 at 1:05am
by Harry Kalogirou
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Disabling the NVIDIA System Sentinel Power Indicator
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October 23, 2007 at 10:25am
by Harry Kalogirou
If you remember my last post about the power indicator problem I have, with my nVidia based video card, I finally managed to fix it!
I noticed that in the list of services in the control panel, nVidia installs a service. It turns out that this service is displaying the annoying error message. So I went […]
Nokia 6300 Can’t Use Bluetooth Handsfree
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October 3, 2007 at 11:29pm
by Harry Kalogirou
Crap! Remember my post the other day about the bluetooth handsfree (Nokia BH-700) I bought? It turns out that my Nokia 6300 has a major problem with bluetooth handsfrees.
At the beginning I thought it was the handsfree that had the problem but its the phone. From the time I started using it people was not […]
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iPhone and Usability
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October 3, 2007 at 10:40am
by Harry Kalogirou
I was looking at all this ads and videos on YouTube about the iPhone and I must say it is a wonderful gadget! It surely can make gadgets freaks like me loose sleep. I would have stop sleeping until we have them in Greece, if I wasn’t precautions about the usability a touch screen can […]
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My nVidia 7600 Runs With a Carburetor
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September 26, 2007 at 4:09pm
by Harry Kalogirou
As the days get colder and colder I’m starting to have a problem with my video card. Yes I know that sound controversial, since it should be the other way around, but its true. It seems that my nVidia 7600 based card is like the old carburetor based cars that don’t run good until the […]
The new PC arrived!
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October 11, 2006 at 3:19pm
by Harry Kalogirou
I just got the new PC for the office… Check this specs out :
AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 1GB RAM 150 GB HDD
and the video graphics accelerator beast!!! :
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 with 1GB Video RAM
I can tell you the performance is mind blowing! I get 500 frames/s with Sylphis3D on this. (note that […]
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Programmable GPUs and the programming method
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May 12, 2006 at 10:22am
by Harry Kalogirou
Working heavily on pixel shaders the last few days, I came to realize some facts about the current way of treating the GPUs and how that way is inefficient/impractical and really doesn’t allow us to fully harness the powers of GPUs.
The progress of GPUs
When some years ago the first graphics accelerators came to light, the […]
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