hardware

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Fedora Core 7 and VMWare

Here’s a quick tip that I kicked myself when I eventually figured out – and then felt subsequently quite thick. After installing Fedora Core 7 within a VMWare host on Windows, the screen resolution...

linux virtualization productivity-tools
January 9, 2008
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New Development Machine

I upgraded to a quad-core Q6600 based system with two Raptor 10K rpm drives and 4GB RAM this last week. The problem with being my main Windows development machine is that there so many packages to...

hardware development-environment windows productivity-tools
August 10, 2007
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Core 2 Duo bang for your buck

I was looking at the purchase of a new Intel Core 2 Duo based system and was somewhat annoyed at the pricing structure. It looked like the premium paid for the higher speed models was out of wack...

September 27, 2006
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AMD Slashing Prices

Over the last three or so months, I've been eyeing an Athlon XP 3800+ X2 processor upgrade but just couldn't justify the expense given the delta in performance between a single processor XP3500+ and...

amd hardware competition
July 27, 2006
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Dell 2405FPW

I recently splurged and purchased a Dell 2405FPW 23 inch monitor. The (possibly spurious) justification was that it would improve my development productivity by having more real estate.

hardware productivity-tools visual-studio
December 4, 2005
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Dead Computer Talking

Yesterday, I had a quick power glitch. Most computers in my office simply rebooted, but my new Asus A8V Athlon 64 system got stuck in a mode where the screen had a weird pattern on it and the PC...

hardware amd motherboard
October 4, 2005
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