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Windows 10 Safe Mode & You

Yesterday, I installed an updated Nvidia driver for my GTX 970 on my Windows gaming box, in order to get the best driver set for playing a couple of new games I  bought. This driver turned out to be faulty, sending my computer into a bootloop. I’ve seen my fair …

The 32/64 bit DLL confusion on Windows 64-bit

Since I’m developing my PhD renderer for multiple target systems (Win32, x64, LInux, …) I started using the excellent freeGlut project for simple OpenGL windowed output. So after finding the Windows binaries compiled (and maintained) by Max Martin Payne, I look at the contents of the zip file. I was …

Boosting Wifi signal by picking a different channel

Here’s just a small writeup of a good way I found to boost your Wifi signal. If you’re living in a residential area, you’ve probably noticed how more and more people have their own wireless networks. Unfortunately, most of the hardware which is distributed today is set to transmit data …

Installing a DVB-T stick : a comparison

I recently bought a Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Stick Solo 72e (bonus points for Pinnacle’s over-the-top naming scheme), because the public TV services in Belgium switched to digital broadcasting. It was the €40 pricetag which turned me. The box contains the USB 2.0 stick and an antenna. I advise on attaching …