zbeng Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 More, better, faster, cheaper, easier, cooler, safer. All of these and more capture our desire to understand and get the most out of the investment we’ve made in our PCs. From making a PC boot faster, to improving its reliability, to using multiple operating systems, to being able to recover quickly when something goes wrong, the PC hacks in this book will improve your PC experience and make you a lot more computer-savvy.The term hacking has a bad reputation in the press. They use it to refer to someone who breaks into systems or wreaks havoc with computers as their weapon. Among people who write code, though, the term hack refers to a “quick-and-dirty” solution to a problem or a clever way to get something done. And the term hacker is taken very much as a compliment, indicating that someone is being creative, having the technical chops to get things done. The Hacks series is an attempt to reclaim the word, document the good ways people are hacking, and pass the hacker ethic of creative participation on to the uninitiated. Seeing howothers approach systems and problems is often the quickest way to learn about a new technology.Since you’ll be hacking your PC, and it probably contains all your data, never more than ever are you most strongly encouraged to follow three basic tenets of PC ownership: back up, Back Up, and BACK UP! While we won’t intentionally lead you through a hack that will harm your system, life with a PC is not a matter of if your system will crash, but when. Backups, system restore points, software and hardware installation disks, and printouts of hard-to-remember or obscure details are very handy to keep safe but close at hand should you need them.TABLE OF CONTENT:Chapter 01 - Basic System Board HacksChapter 02 - Basic System Board SetupChapter 03 - CPU HacksChapter 04 - Memory HacksChapter 05 - Disk HacksChapter 06 - Disk Drive Performance HacksChapter 07 - Video HacksChapter 08 - I/O Device HacksChapter 09 - Boot-Up HacksChapter 10 - Configuring a New PChttp://rapidshare.com/files/16299579/PC_Ha.rarPASSWORD: Augustiner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
