The Insomniac Coder

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It's been a few weeks since the upgrade to SSD , and I was starting to be concerned about my external USB drives . I have two Iomega Prestige USB2 drives (one bought by my robot overlord employer, one bought for personal use). I am scared to death of single-drive data storage on laptops , because wrecking the drive not only kills your OS but also all your data. I like how in desktops and servers pretty much everyone I know tries to use multiple drives, and leaves the OS on its own. Under reasonable conditions (properly filtered power, nobody working the case over with a baseball bat, etc.) it would be extremely rare to lose more than one drive at a time. With the laptop we don't have that luxury. Since we do all of our programming work with a centralized repository, a disk failure is not a catastrophe: whatever was checked into the repository is on a much stronger server that goes through a reasonable backups regime (I pray to God). If the work was not checked in, most of ...

Chrome 7 allows you to offload processing to your GPU . Since the feature is not ready for primetime, you have to enable it through a command line switch . You can do this easily by making a batch file that calls the following: C:\Users\ username \ AppData \Local\ Google \Chrome\Application\chrome.exe -enable-accelerated-compositing Once you run the batch file, you will be able to go to about:memory and note there is a new memory item called "GPU." Here's what mine looks like:  Related articles by Zemanta How to turn GPU acceleration on in Chrome 7 (zdnet.com) Enabling GPU Acceleration in Chrome 7 (thechromesource.com) Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration (hardware.slashdot.org)