about 1 month ago - No comments
Today, Fedex dropped off my new ASUS RoG Extreme II motherboard, to replace the one that was consistently overheating. Amazingly, I hadn’t lost any of the hardware since I took the computer apart a couple weeks ago.
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64, which I picked up from my university a few weeks ago, and I’m [...]
about 7 months ago - No comments
So, I finally got my offer letter from VMware and started looking a little more seriously at new laptops. As I mentioned earlier, I’m interested in the 13″ Macbook Pro, however with Core i7 Mobile coming out in (supposedly) the next couple of months, I’m worried to pull the trigger in the event that a [...]
about 7 months ago - No comments
I discovered a positive development for both server options today: First, the Q9400s, a lower power version of the Q9400 which would work better in the SFF case. Secondly, I learned that I can boot to a software RAID1 setup, which makes the Atom route more appealing, which I’m now leaning towards. The Atom should [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
By now, Cervantes (my webserver) is starting to get pretty old. While it still performs it’s basic functions decently, I’m wanting to move to a RAID setup to prevent data loss due to a hard drive crash. While I do have nightly backups of the most important data on Cervantes (my posts) the rest of [...]
about 10 months ago - 3 comments
Today I got my Wacom Bamboo USB Tablet in from Newegg. Installation in Jaunty was incredibly easy, I just plugged it in and the Wacom drivers were already installed and ready to go. The corners of the tablet automatically mapped to the corners of the screen, which in some previous Ubuntu releases required a bit [...]
about 11 months ago - No comments
So, I broke down and bought a new computer, even though I was planning on waiting for the 32nm refresh of Core i7. What originally started as a CPU upgrade went a little overboard, and I wound up with the following:
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz
ASUS Rampage II Motherboard
Corsair XMS 6GB (3×2GB) DDR3-1333
2x EVGA 1GB Nvidia [...]
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
A while ago, I wondered about the possibility of a small, commercially marketed server for home use, and it looks like VIA is going to do that. They haven’t made a desktop application for administering it like I had suggested, and it seems to be more intended for internal use, such as file storage.
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about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Core i7 is out, so needless to say I’ve been lurking on Newegg even more than usual lately. As much as I’d love to build the new uber-machine, on some level I realize that I don’t really need it. With the exception of the CPU, everything in my current rig is pretty nice (the CPU [...]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
I recently helped my roommate shop for a small, personal web server. We wound up basing it on Intel’s Atom platform, and I was amazed at how cheap it was. The server (pictured above) came up to almost exactly $200, including shipping, and has a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 512MB of Memory, and an 80GB hard [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
I’m waiting to hear back on a post I made over at Hardforum, but I think I’m going to pull the trigger on some upgrades pretty soon. For just $320 (after a $40MIR) I can get 4GB of DDR2-800, a 512MB Geforce 8800GT, and a 1TB WD Hard Drive.
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about 3 years ago
Just wanted to let you know that this seems to be a more systemic issue. I’m attempting to track down what’s _really_ going on. I have Kubuntu (running fluxbox) on an IBM Z61p. When I use the default vesa driver for my ATI Mobility FireGL V5200, M56GL, 71C4 graphics card the performance is horrible, but the machine runs just fine. When I try the Xorg ati (radeon) driver, I get nothing on the display at all. When I try the latest fglrx from AMD (ATI) [ v8.32.5-1 ], it loads with DRI and all the goodness it should, but at some random point, my system will crash with:
Message from syslogd@isohel at Wed Feb 14 13:38:39 2007 …
isohel kernel: [17179814.032000] Critical temperature reached (128 C), shutting down.
Broadcast message from root@isohel
(unknown) at 13:38 …
The system is going down for power-off NOW!
None of my thermals are that high. I was running an acpi -V to a file at the time and my processor temps just before this were a mere 45 C.
Anyway, I’ve been digging into this one and have come to find that many people have encountered this, but I’m not sure how many of them are running fglrx. Are you?
about 3 years ago
I’m not, I’m using the radeon driver