SwagBucks: The best way to get free stuff online

Although i said this blog has closed, i would like to share one thing with you:

Swagbucks

This is the best way to get free stuff online. It is super simple, all you have to do is search using their search engine, just like you would do with google. When you search, you will earn swagbucks. Once you get enough swagbucks, you can get a free prizes! Iphones, Mp3s, instruments, ext.

And, unlike other sites, swagbucks doesn't want your creditcard or other harmful information. And I'm really writing this post because i thought it was a good site, not because i was paid to do it or something. I think you should check it out, using this link. Send your friends this link to, they would love the site!

Swagbucks


-Tech-drummer

22ed Century Technology Is Officially Closing.

22 Tech Is Officially Closing.
And So is Upbeatpc.com (Failed website attempt that we never really worked on).
This closure is due to Spam (Comments), and loss of interest in the blog.

Really, the full story is, We thought ," Lets ditch the blog and make a full blown website". We started out nicely, But then just stopped working on the website. (We never even finished the design, whats on there now was kind-of a "test"). Feel free to browse the Blog and site for past articles. Although the site will likely be shut down, the blog will stay up freely for anyone to browse.

In other news, I [Tech-drummer] have started a new blog. It is mainly focused on software and graphic design. Here is the link, http://alecsgraphics.blogspot.com/

Feel free to check it out and comment. Also, Budgetperson is currently working on a blog. I will publish the link once he gives me it.

Hope you will keep on reading our new blogs. Thanks again for all the (NOT spam) Comments, and all the efforts that , as of this last post, that gave this blog 26,197 visitors.
-22ed Century Technology

Upbeat PC Is up and running!

If you haven't herd from our last post, we have a new website! A awesome new computer website, with a new blog. Unfortunately, this means we will not be updating 22tech anymore. This is not a bad thing, since you can just keep updated with our new site and blog! Our site is new, so it is not all done yet, and we need more visitors, so we ask our readers to tell their friends about upbeat pc and visit it! You can check it out here-

http://www.upbeatpc.com/

Thanks!
-Tech-drummer

Upbeat PC! New awesome Website thats coming out soon!

We are making a new top-of-the-line computer website! Check it out at http://www.upbeatpc.com !

Memory Usage - IE8 beta 1 vs Firefox vs Opera

Recently, Firefox got an update to the newest version 3.0. Before, many people were complaining about how much memory firefox uses whenever you use it. It could go up to 600MB if you used it long enough!

But now, with the release of firefox version 3, Mozilla has promised to fix over 300 memory leaks. Memory leaks occur when the browser fails to dispatch memory that it has already used, (happens especially, though not always, when you go to a lot of sites in the same tab).

These are the version numbers of the browsers we used -

• Firefox 3
• Opera 9.5
• IE8 beta 1

This is how I tested -
We went to the nba channel on youtube, and played all of the videos in the playlist "There Can Only be One" in high quality (if available). After a couple seconds after they all played, we went to Windows Task manager to see which one consumed the least amount of memory.

Here are the results -

• Firefox 3 - 53092 kb
  
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - 59701 kb
• Opera 9.5 - 85832 kb

So, Firefox did the best out of the bunch, but it wasn't much better than Internet Explorer, and Opera used up the most memory, a whopping 86 megabytes Unfortunately, we did not test IE7. A graph showing the results is on the right.

-22nd Century Technology

Macs are computers too!

The fastest computer you can buy, period.

With 8 cores, this is the fastest mac yet. And if your not building, this is the fastest computer on the market.
Even though the price starts at $2,799.00, if you had $20,000 laying in the bank, you could get this machine with two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32gb of ram, a Mac pro RAID card,FOUR 300gb 15,000-rpm SAS Drives ,a NIVDIA Quadro FX 560 1.5gb video card, 2 16x superdrives, and to top it all of a airport extreme wi-fi card. But remember that is just the computer. If you had $5,000 more, you could get all the software, a protection plan, and 2 30" monitors.

Of course, you can configure it yourself, with lots of options, at http://www.apple.com/macpro/

Post a comment!
-tech-drummer

Howto: Wine with Linux

How To: Run Your Windows Applications in Linux.

So you want to run your Windows applications on Ubuntu but don't know where to start? This guide explains step-by-step instructions on how to do it in a really simple way. Just follow step-by step.

Although there are numerous programs that can do this job – the most common way to do it is to use Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator), and that is what we will use here.

To set up Wine all you need is -

• A working 32-bit Linux OS installed to your hard drive (or through a VM) *You can do 64-bit but these instructions are for 32-bit only

• An Internet Connection (or someone who does)

• A little bit of common sense and patience

First of all we have to get Wine. To do this all you have to do is run the shell script that I made which will automatically put the wine repository in your list, update apt, and install wine.

1. First of all download the script from here.

2. Go to the folder in which you downloaded the script, and right click and go to properties.

3. Go to the “Permissions” tab.

4. Check “Allow Executing file as a program”

5. After that, double click on the executable and say “Run in Terminal”

6. The script will install wine and close, once it is done wine is installed! Simple right?

Next all we have to do is install an application. We all don't have the same applications – so as an example I am going to use Notepad++. It is a text editor more advanced than notepad (for programming) and it works wonderfully in Wine. You can download it here. (If you download yourself, use version 4.8.5 , the 5.0 beta does not work). Once it is done, go to the folder in which you

downloaded it, right click it and there should be an option saying - “Open with Wine Windows Emulator”. If that doesn't show up, you will have to take some extra steps. Go to “Open With Other Application”. Use a custom command – and put in “wine” (without quotes).

When you open the notepad++ installer, the installation screen should show up asking you which language to pick (Illustration 1). Then you can just go through the installation process as you normally would as if you were in Windows.

Afterwards, you would get an icon on your desktop that says, “Notepad++” . You would also get it in the menu (after it refreshes). (If it asks you to update, say no). Double-click it and there you go. You are running notepad++ in wine!

Not all software is that easy, but then again, some are. If you need help installing a particular program, you can google it, or search the Wine Application Database. This is a database which has a list of programs which work or do not work with Wine.

Also, if you are willing to pay, there are some proprietary wine solutions out there.

• CodeWeavers CrossoverOffice This is a wine derivative and makes it very easy to install windows applications through its interface, I recommend to try the beta and see if you are willing to pay $40 for it.

• CodeWeavers CrossoverGames This is like CrossoverOffice except it is meant for games.

• Cedega – This is another application that helps you play your games on Linux. I cannot say anything about CrossoverGames vs Cedega (since I haven't tried them). The only thing I know is that Cedega is cheaper than Crossover Games.

-22nd Century Technology

The dream PC.

So now we're gonna do a post about the "Dream Computer". Of course, this is nothing CLOSE to practical or anything ... its just if we had unlimited $$, what is the best performing computer we could get?? The final price is outrageous - $27K. Atcually, we made 2 PCs, one is not as crazy as the other (a good 3K less).. we'll refer to the $27K one as PC 1 and the $24K one as PC 2.

CPU
Obviously intel is on top, for the really all out pc, we chose 2 intel qx9775's , giving us 8 cores of goodness. As for the not so crazy one, we just went with one intel qx9770, still intel's second most powerful quad.

Motherboard - For the all out one , we had to choose intel's only skulltrail motherboard, which unfortunately is more like a server board, it only supports PCIE x16 1.1 (not v2) , and it is only ddr2 800/677 FBDIMM. But it has support for 2 CPUs and it has 4 pcie x16 slots, and it supports upto 16gb of RAM. As for the not so all-out one , we chose the asus striker extreme 790i motherboard, which has support for all the new tech, but is not a skulltrail platform. Well , at least that was the original plan. On newegg, afterwards we saw a 4gb module of ddr2 800! So we were like wow, we can put in 16 gig! Problem - it was ddr2 , and 790i only supports ddr3 , so we had a choice, stick with 8gb of ddr3 or go with 16gb of ddr2, now , that is your choice, but we went with the 16 gig, but now i kinda regret it because of course - ddr3 is more future proof and all that, but in the future I guess we will see 4gb modules for ddr3. Hopefully. Also, we needed memory for the raid card (it had a ddr2 slot) but we will tell you about that in that section.

RAM-
For the all out one - I chose 16gb of ddr2 667 fbdimms, 4x4gb .. they are only 667 but 16 gig .. wow. Obviously most people would like to go with 8gb of ddr2 800, but that's what PC 2 is for ;). For PC 2 we picked 8gb (2x 2x2gb) of ddr3 1600 RAM. In addition, we could probably OC that to ddr2 1800-1900 etc.

Video Cards-
For PC one, we picked four, yes four, 9800GX2s ... why? I don't know. Bragging rights??? But seriously , that is why this is the all out pc, four 9800gx2s it is, maybe they won't be in SLI, but who knows? lol. For PC 2, we obviously didn't do that, we just went with "normal" sliied 2 9800gx2s for quad sli. Oh and of course, these aren't just any 9800gx2s, they are the evga ssc ones, so they are OC'ed to teh MAX!!

Power Supply - We picked the same power supply for 2 PCs, and it is the silverstone 1200w. We needed this power supply because it has a BUNCH of pcie pwr cables (6x 6pin and 2x 8pin) , but since in PC I we have four 9800gx2s, we would also need to snag 2 PC power and cooling cables that convert a 6pin power plug to an 8pin so that we need enough power. Those are about $10 each. For PC 2, we picked the same power supply, although we could've used something a bit less than 1200W (Maybe 750w or something).

Hard drives -
This is where half the cost of both PCs go. Yes. Hard drives. Why? We picked 4, yes, 4 SSD hard drives that are 128gb each all in RAID 0! Think how much speed that would give! And for backup and large files, we picked 2 1TB Segate hard drives. Of course, many people would
disagree and say for one - 4 ssd 128 gb's cost $12000, and you could just at the very least get three of them and get 3 1tb hard drives in raid 5. I don't know, that is another good option so you can put a lot of variety into this, but that is what we decided to go for! Of course, for this kind of raid you think we are going to use onboard raid?? Heck no! We chose a $1200 raid card from areca on newegg. It also benefits from having a ddr2 533 slot where we can put in 1 stick of memory for RAM. As for that the 4gb module was just perfect for that, so we can have 4gb of memory in our raid card (we have a 4gb ddr2 800 module in the all out pc too just for the raid card)! :P

Case - We got the latest silverstone tj-10 case. As for looks it may not be that great, but the construction quality is great, airflow and cable and routing are nice, but it is HUGE (a good thing). It will be the perfect enclosure!

CD/DVD - For this we picked to samsung sh-s203n drives (teh best performing dvd burners) and we also picked a $200 blu-ray lite on drive.

"Accessories"

These are the things that are not atcually inside the tower, or different accessories that are "not needed" such as speakers, CPU cooling, etc.

Mouse -
Logitech MX revolution. It is an overall nice-but-expensive gaming laser mouse. Coming really close to it is the logitech g5/g7.

Keyboard - Logitech g15- just a normal overall gaming keyboard.

Monitors - You are not gonna believe this - but TWO 30 inch XHD3000s for monitors. Those will do really well... they can even double as a TV! :P

Sound Card - HT omega claro plus - for $180. Creative used to be the best, but now with their driver issues and such, this looks like a great card to buy!

CPU Cooler - For the all out PC - we have TWO Coolit Freezone's (h2o cooling) , and for PC II, we have "just" one.

Operating systems - One Windows XP Professional 32bit, and one Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, and a copy of 64 or 32 bit linux. We would do 64bit xp, but that has a ton of driver problems and such.

Well that concludes our Dream Machines. If you want to see the newegg wishlists for both machines, they are right here -

All out PC - PC number one - $26507.67

PC Number two - more standard - $22,879.73

Hope you liked it!

About 22Tech

22 Century Technology is an army of aliens from mars using a time capsule to bend the space time continual and reach the human population to share there precious technology.

Actually, were just a bunch of geeks sharing some cool computer tricks, tips, and software. (But the alien thing would be cool).

I (tech-drummer) started this blog at the beginning of 2008 and thought it would be a cool way of sharing computer "stuff". Later, my friend Yash chipped in. I soon realized that for a blog to be successful, it had to have something no other blog had. That's when i came up with the "Free Software Of The Day" ( originally called "Open Source of the day") Even though its not every day, it is good software tested by us.

I will be adding to this page as i go on just for important information, but as of now, may 26, 2008, we have 9,600 visitors. I hope to have more soon, so please help out a little-

SPREAD THE WORD!

1st way: JUST TELL PEOPLE ABOUT US!

Have a date? Need conversation? Just say "I just found this 22tech blog and it's awesome!"

2.TELL PEOPLE ABOUT US ON THE INTERNET!

Forums? Other blogs? emails? websites? im? Myspace? Facebook? google? JUST POST A LINK! (to: http://22tech.blogspot.com/ )

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