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About this blog

Hello I'm Dava

 

Blogged on Tech for over 10 years since 2007, pretty much retired though. Started on ZDNet, moved to OCN (where I cause a minor stir in the industry with 'Real World Performance And What it Means to You'). Had an argument with one of the admins on OCN for deleting an article.. without even sending it to me first so I could back it up and post elsewhere.. rest of the staff got on really well. An OCN friend started 'For The Republic' FB Group we admin'ed there til life took us in different directions. I still blog on the FTR blog and get OK traffic for pretty much no exposure (50+ per article avg).. looking to blog here as I am pretty sure I heard Linus directly quote one of my articles from back in the OCN days hehe or maybe I imagined it.

 

Enjoyed LTTs media from the start and even used to watch the team on the 'old' channel. ... the 'old' is in quote marks because.. LTT is what 11 years old and that old channel was what? 5 years old if that? hehe.. make myself laugh. I have a gifted IQ but am disabled.. so bare with me. My disability leaves me in much pain derailing my concentration.

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Industry

A Whisper In These Dark Woods; Late Nights and Early Days of VR.. or a universal framework for all first person games to allow partial VR support

Hi LTT peruse-ers    I wish to make a whisper in these dark woods; late nights and early days of VR.. A thought I have had for many years now and I suppose just assumed would come to fruition without anyone saying anything.. but here I'll whisper to the winds of the internet and hope the notion is carried with flight to the right ears.   Background   I game on PC with a controller.. it's an unimportant middle-tool, that I use to get me where I'm going. I'm a generat
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Gaming

Redemption for a Remaster.. (RDR1 as RDR2 DLC)

HI WWW First some music:     I was going to write about MR-VR headsets.. but this thought about RDR has been rattling around in my head for a long time partner.   Some Background The fanbase cried out, like wolves far from the night campfire.. for RDR1 on PC, but near going on ten years.. R* were pretty silent on the subject until one R* Dev broke the silence and revealed that the RAGE Engine version that R* San Diego used, was in-between versions and
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Graphics Cards

Intel Discrete Graphics Cards.. my take on what would be beneficial to the community and Intel

(Originally posted on the FTR Official Blog on Sunday 29th Dec 2019)   Hi www So over much time, I have been thinking about Intel graphics cards since before Intel themselves took it seriously.. In short.. Intel need to build a consumer-ship from scratch, and on every side they have the potential to be squeezed out of the market. So with that in mind, I have some.. recommendations for the Intel Graphics Department.. 1. you need a catchy name for your cards that has nothing 
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History

Why I Decided to Leave Consoles Behind.. My Journey into Being a Generational Gamer..

Hullo   So..    Q: What IS a Generational Gamer?   A: Someone familiar with console generations and console gaming, but has left it behind in pursuit of PC gaming.   This was me and a lot of other people when around that time (2010) people starting thinking:     What's wrong with consoles?.. well nothing really, they do what they say they will.   But then.. I would prefer to save a lot of money with a DIY solution for my gaming and not
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PC Clients

A Daydream PC Client for Nintendo Games.. or Team Rocket does a Valve..

Hi WWW   I have been thinking about this off and on for around a week now, and had a client idea (who didn't? am I right?) for Nintendo games on PC years ago.. now I just want it out of my head.   Nintendo don't have any juicy slice of the PC market.. even Sony do now, with their games for sale on the Epic client (yay Sony!) I've even bought a few. quite a few hehe. This is because of the culture of 'Generational Gamers' .. they are gamers who came from the console generation
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Privacy

Information.. Part Two: 4 years laters or ... Samsung are Evil

(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Sunday, 1 April 2018)   Hi WWW Original 'Information Part 1'  24/May/2014:   -------------------------------- I want to revisit the topic of Information and privacy policies. Why is it important for companies to NOT have access to your information? Simply because they can share that information with people you would consider strangers, even intimate
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Hitchhiker's Guide

Dava's Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Information.. or the Magratheans get iTunes..

(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Saturday, 4 July 2015)   [I hope you enjoy this lighthearted look at the modernization of transferring data. now please imagine hitchhiker's guide voice in your head for the remainder of the article*] Sometime around 1900's of 'Earth', the transfugulation of the Betelgeusians, and Slartibartfast's 'Memoirs of Triumphant Galacticism'  book-signing, the primarily ape-like species of 'earth' realized inform
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Hitchhiker's Guide

Dava's Hitchhiker's Guide to 'End of Life' ..so long and thanks for all the chips!

(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Friday, 29 August 2014)   [Here is a lighthearted look at 'End Of Life' known also as EOL, when a product moves from the support phase to a coffin somewhere in the ethernets of a Skyrim graveyard.. or no longer supported by the manufacturing company, while this is not always the worst thing ever to have happened in existence.. try paying £4000-12000 for a MacPro and tell me in 6-10 years if you feel like having a little cr
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Dava's Hitchhiker's Guide to Operating Systems ..BYOBF (bring your own babelfish!)

(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Monday, 12 May 2014)   [I hope you enjoy this lighthearted look at operating systems. now please imagine hitchhiker's guide voice in your head for the remainder of the article*] Far Far Away, long long ago in the awaking land that is the 1950's people got bored, and without the internet and iPhones and interstellar travel, it's easy to see why.. they wondered 'wouldn't it be nifty if this calculator thingy did somet
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Dava's Hitchhiker's Guide to Computers. ..bring a towel..

(Originally posted in the FTR FB group on : 29 November 2013) Hi guys we've had a little influx of members new to building so.. as you do.. I thought I'd share some info. My speciality is Operating Systems. (I hope Rob does one of these on networking, he was a network admin a few years back as you might already know). I VBoxed for many years as it was a hobby of mine, not done it now since 2011 but i keep a hand in reading up about OS's from time to time. but in that
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Industry

A Tree! A Rock! A Bush! 20 Answers on the misconceptions of distance in games

(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Sunday, 27 July 2014)   Hi Guys, In my journey of understanding.. learning much more about pixel counts and how much of a gaff I made about how many pixels my TV could *actually* do.. I learned this: 1.the measurement for textures vs distance in 1080 is wildly wrong. 2. the closer you get to a rock/object the sharper, NOT vaguer, the object should be. 3. Downsampling exists, even though I fou
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Drive Capacities

SSD and Drive Capacities .. or the King has no Clothes..

(Originally posted on the FTR blog on: Friday, 3 August 2018)   Hi I'm Dava, I have been blogging about tech for around 10 years for a hobby. I started blogging on ZDNet UK then moved to Overclock.net, which I am proud to say, one of my articles (2012) caused a minor stir in the industry: Realworld Performance and What It Means to You… I'd like to draw attention to something that I hope you too will feel passionate about.. Over the
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4K TV Custom Resolutions

Refresh Rates CheatSheet for 4K TVs

(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Monday, 4 March 2019)     Hi Time to dump a load of info here: Increased Refresh                                             Increased Resolution ----------------------                                                -------------------------- 4K/60hz =                                                        4K/60hz = 1080 @ 240hz               
Streaming

Streaming Companies: One Resolution to Rule them All.. or Why are we still on the Oliver 1080 Poverty breadline?

Hello..    Oh wandering wisp of the internet.. or should that be Edna the Evil TV? Sit back and relax, grab a tea, coffee or beverage of choice while I, your town crier, regale you on how Streaming Companies of Mordor have locked us all in to 1080 and stagnated the industry..   Skeptical? I don't blame you, its a large and sweeping claim.. but for balance.. remember how locked we were with DX9? that thing just would not die! until; we starved it to death. Hear ye! Hear Ye!
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