Today after updating my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with Service Pack 1, I noticed, that almost all Right click context menus (for example on Desktop) are on wrong side – left side of mouse pointer instead of right side. It turns out, that Service Pack somehow changed my Windows settings. To get back the old …
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Stress test my Video card to reproduce driver crash
One of my video cards kept crashing and showing various artifacts. Usually this happened when playing youtube.com videos or using DirectX. Video card was GIGABYTE nVidia GTX 460. When crashing, Windows temporary disabled both monitors / displays and, then balloon tip appeared showing: [Display driver stopped responding and has recovered] Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel …
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January 2011, links
Hardcore optimization story – Would you believe me if I claimed that an algorithm that has been on the books as “optimal” for 46 years, which has been analyzed in excruciating detail by geniuses like Knuth and taught in all computer science courses in the world, can be optimized to run 10 times faster? Bjarne …