Levicki's Tech Spot

Just when you think they couldn't sink any deeper they prove you wrong.

I have purchased a new mainboard on January 15, 2008 in anticipation of Intel's 45nm CPUs codenamed Penryn.

UPDATE (2008-03-25): After getting back from a vacation, Raymond said that he didn't censor my posts.

Raymond Chen blogs about a game called Last Checkin Chicken Microsoft developers play just before product release to manufacturing.

I have recently bought an ASUS EN8800GT/G/HTDP/512M, because I needed CUDA 1.1 compliant device for my work.

I have recently added another 2 GB of RAM to be able to perform some testing for a friend of mine, and I installed Windows XP Professional x64 Edition to be able to utilize all 4 GB of RAM from his test application.

Don't you sometimes have an urge to smash your computer into little bits and pieces with a large hammer?!?

We all know that there are certain situations where being hasty can cost us a lot of effort.

If you update to the latest BIOS (which is version 2809 dated December 13, 2007 at the moment of this writing) your mainboard will support latest and greatest 45nm CPUs from Intel which are about to hit the stores on January 20th — namely Core 2 Duo E8xxx…

This website now renders titles into PNG images and sends them to your browser.

On his news website my friend Nikola Stojanovic wrote about WDC My Book World Edition external storage blocking access to 38 forbidden file types.

In his recent post Raymond Chen wonders if he is perhaps some sort of artificial intelligence (or just simply insensitive?).

Hi everyone.

This post is a test of a PingBack/TrackBack client which I just implemented in PHP on my website so I can post my comments and opinions here instead on other people's blogs and still get their attention to what I have to say.

Michael Kaplan writes about Social Engineering in Windows Explorer on his blog addressing an issue of Windows Explorer dropping out leading spaces from filenames.

Splendid news everyone!!!

Every once in a while I get stunned by the ignorance... no — stupidity of the software developers and publishers.

First off, I had the following system configuration when I tried Vista: Chieftec LCX-01-B-B-SL Seasonic SS-600HT Intel D975XBX Bad Axe Core 2 Duo E6300 Zalman CNPS 9500 LED Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 1 x WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR0 (150GB Ra…

It was 11th October when I decided that it would be nice to visit Wellness Fashion Selection, and to take some fashion photos.

I have finally finished the PHP code for my photo gallery.

Every now and then someone writes about DRM evils but usually they fail to convey a point to the Average Joe.

I have just purchased Apacer Audio Steno AU240 mp3 player for the price of 30€ in a local computer store.

In an attempt to make it easier for visitors to browse my photo gallery which has 193 photos at the moment, I have wrote some php code and made some minor modifications to enable introduction of photo categories.

I am seriously pissed off by various websites which keep using glaring white background as if white is the only available color.

It was quite some time ago, and people have a tendency to forget but I have a memory like an elephant so let me quickly remind you what was said on August 31, 2005 roughly two years ago from now.

If you are not using Serbian language you can stop reading now, thank you.

Update (2008-03-14): KC Lemson has read this post and she said that she has forwarded my feedback to the Outlook team.

I have used FlashGet for a long time because I liked it, simple and fast, clean interface.

Every now and then I have to edit an AVI file in which some prick has used variable bitrate mp3 for audio track.

Good news, everyone!

You have all at least heard about RivaTuner, the ultimate graphics card tweaking and overclocking tool.

Some time ago I experienced an urgent need for the 64-bit version of vfdwin 2.1, which in case you didn't know is a Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1.

Have you noticed how this Firefox thing is becoming more and more annoying?

Have a cookie!

In one of my my earlier posts I already mentioned some of the tools I am using to keep my Windows installation in good shape — fast and responsive.

Good news, everyone!

This is not exactly computer hardware but it is related so bear with me for a while.

I have updated levicki.net to be XHTML 1.1 compliant.

I was thinking about modern filesystems and related operating system file access APIs and I come to a shocking realization.

When I recently bought a digital photo camera, I needed a good battery charger for it because it uses 4x AA cells.

I wasn't hoping to see a nude patch for Tomb Raider: Anniversary PC game so soon and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that someone was working on it.

Few days ago I laid my grubby hands on a 2Wire HomePortal 1000HG Wireless ADSL Router.

It is time for email communication as a concept to take serious bashing from me.

It seems that Wolfdale CPUID might be 0x10661 at least according to the microcode update present in Intel Desktop Board D975XBX2 BIOS revision 2747.

Remember how I said recently that dpreview.com is IMO the most trusted resource on digital photography on the Internet?

Whoever thought of a checkpoint system in first person shooter games should suffer in some way.

I have been very busy with work lately which hopefully explains lack of updates here.

While the pizza is reasonably good (although the amount of ingredients may vary depending on who made it) I had really bad luck with other meals.

I have just performed an important update.

I have recently bought EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB video card and did a fresh reinstall of Windows XP SP2 with all the relevant hotfixes and updates.