Athlon64 3500+ to Opteron 175 upgrade notes

1 03 2008

In short, gain with minimal pain, a couple of small hitches. I went single-core to dual-core with a drop-in replacement CPU and it was almost as easy as replacing the batteries in a flashlight.

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Leopard Upgrade Report: Mo’ Features, Mo’ Problems

27 12 2007

(Apologies to The Notorious B.I.G. for the title.)

I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” recently. In short, it’s not ready for mainstream use. There are a few nice improvements, but these are balanced by numerous problems that make me wish I had waited until, say, June 2008 or so. If you haven’t upgraded and aren’t sure that you need to, I suggest that you wait a few months, until some of the bugs have been worked out.
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Ugly Data Centers

7 01 2007
  1. Pink walls, no cases. Nice!
  2. Where’s the marinara?