Hi, I just reformatted my hard drive a couple months ago, when my computer was getting slow enough I was thinking of just packing it in and getting a new one. With the reformat, everything is so silky ...

The Folding@home distributed computing project is now utilizing donated CPU cycles to research the Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus. Folding@home is a project founded by Pande Lab at Stanford University ...

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A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause. The object is called a disrupted binary ...

While we're not recommending to average users to disable the built-in search functionality, if you really don't use it, you could save yourself some CPU cycles by getting rid of it. Over at How-To ...

A measure of how a given piece of code or the entire application is performing is to look at the average number of cycles that are needed to retire an instruction. This is an indication of how much ...

A reader has found that removing the optical media drive from the media bay of his PowerBook G3 ("Lombard") fixes an ongoing problem he has had with the kernel saturating the CPU. Tim Cartwright ...