Reading Time: 3 minutescontinued from here Motherboard and Processor The motherboard and the processor, or CPU, are two of the most important parts of a PC. The motherboard is the heart of a computer that connects all the components and peripherals together. The CPU is the brain of the computer. It executes instructions Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesBruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are all iconic action heroes for the 1980s and 1990s. Each one has its own idiosyncrasy and personal style of acting. Yet, all three have contributed some of the best action movies ever made, which are nowadays considered classic. In the last decades, Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Ngram tool Michel et al. (2011) produced the online tool Ngram. Ngram produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up about 6% of all books ever printed; Lin et al. 2012) relative to all remaining phrases Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA pair of good headphones, both over the head and earbuds, with good noise cancelation is an essential accessory for our home cinema room. There are times when we must keep the sound in the home cinema room at very low levels, e.g., late at night when our younger family Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI visited Vienna from the 29th of December till the 6th of January 2024. The New Year eve was impressive as is Vienna in general. During all these days I continuously walked throughout the city, enjoying the Viennese coffee and hot chocolate, strudels, krapfen, sachertorte, and Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesSmart lighting is essential for home cinema (see previous posts). One elegant smart light which is essential for the decoration and function of the home cinema room is the Govee Neon Led Strip Light. This strip is very flexible. It can take a plethora of shapes. Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe movie Die Hard is an action thriller. It appeared in the cinemas 35 years ago, in 1988 (by Twentieth Century Fox, Gordon Company, Silver Pictures). The protagonist The protagonist is the one and only Bruce Willis. He plays John McClane, a New York City police officer who joins his Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesA windows PC is for me the heart of the home cinema. It has the power to handle everything related to home cinema including gaming. Its use is easy, and most people know how to use it. The main parts of the Home Theater PC (HTPC) are the case, the Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesSmart home market According to Earthweb, the world smart home market amounted to 98 billion USD in 2020 and is expected to reach 495 billion by 2028. The smart home market is generally dominated by big companies such as Google Nest, Amazon, Samsung Smartthings, Apple HomeKit. Nevertheless, there is a Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudying at McGill In autumn 1981 I started my MSc in the Institute of Oceanography at McGill University. I flew from Athens to Montreal a few days before the release of the first IBM computer running MS Dos, on the 3rd of August. This day was marked by the famous Read more