The company I work for used to offer white box managed servers in a variety of sizes, and every so often they sell off a batch that has been retired for almost nothing — the Small Form-Factor boxes that I prefer go for just $25. Somehow I wound up taking home 5 this week. Add […]
Archive for August, 2004
How Much is Enough?
27Aug04Gravity
26Aug04Are LCD prices finally starting to drop? Costco.com has a Sceptre 20.1″ with DVI, VGA, S-Video, Composite, and USB for $699. My local Costco has a Princeton 17″ with DVI, VGA, and speakers for $299 after $50 Instant Rebate and $30 Mail-In Rebate (one MIR per Member). Newegg currently lists 25 17″ LCDs under $350, […]
Work, ICF
23Aug04I still have a job, BTW. Haven’t figured out if I’m happy about that. I’m going to continue steadily working towards getting my business off the ground. Today I ordered a phone, a Cisco 7960, to be used with the Asterisk box I’ll start building tonight…
Anyhow, I have some homework from the day (err, night) […]
PAE / 3GB = Huh?
22Aug04Raymond Chen’s series of posts this month about /3GB, PAE, and AWE have proven timely — someone just IM’d me about memory issues on an app server with 4GB RAM.
What confuses me is that some material equates physical address space with actual RAM. Virtual Memory Swap shares the physical address space, correct? So on a […]
Server Matrix Coupon
20Aug04I have a coupon code for a Super Gamerz 3.0 machine at Server Matrix, $139 Monthly / $0 Setup. 3.0GHz P4 800Mhz FSB, 1GB RAM, 80GB disk, 1200GB transfer. They’ve recently added a bunch of new data center features that are usually found only at much higher-priced facilities.
If you can use the code, send me […]
Synergy Re-visited
19Aug04I’ve been using Synergy at work every day for three months. It’s tendancy to crash or permanently disconnect had been increasingly annoying me, so I went looking for an update. Turns out that while they haven’t put out a new release version since last year, the experimental builds have been regularly updated. So I upgraded […]
Desktop Mods
19Aug04With two 20″ LCDs, one 17″, an SGI O2, a widescreen laptop on an iCurve, and two sets of mice / keyboards, my 60″ flat-top desk suddenly feels like it could use a shelf. Something like the “overbridge” on Middle Atlantic’s Edit Center Desks would be perfect, but so far I haven’t found any furniture […]
Here I am
13Aug04The first weather band from Hurricane Charley is moving across South Florida now. Watching the radar images on a television we set up in the NOC, this band is significantly bigger than the hurricane — which is still moving across Havana. I look forward to the weather before and after a hurricane. First it gets […]
