'Tech' Category
ICHicanery8
Or: How to install Windows XP on a SATA hard drive attached to an Intel ICH8 SATA controller in AHCI mode. I, like many people, have an Asus P5B motherboard, the non-Deluxe model. It’s been a pretty good board for me so far, and I’m pleased with its feature set for the price I [...]
Thoughts on Rails Performance
2007-03-07: Added results for testing with Mongrel and the ActiveRecord session store using MyISAM tables. As many of you know I’m a rather big fan of Ruby on Rails, the web application development framework. I adore Ruby as a language for all sorts of tasks, and I’ve found I’m able to get a great deal [...]
Why I Like Guild Wars (So Far)
Updates: 2007-01-10: Added another difference that I thought of — the game’s lack of different shards. 2007-01-02: Corrected information about changing your secondary profession thanks to a comment from The Extremist. Amanda bought me Guild Wars for Christmas, and it’s proving to be exceptionally fun. Some of my friends probably know that I’m an on-again-off-again EVE Online player [...]
Apple’s High Horse
It was revealed that a certain number of Video iPods were inadvertently shipped with a Windows virus called RavMonE.exe. Apple has put up a support page to help users affected by this problem, which is good, but in it they say: As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being [...]
So Simple, it Might Just Be Worth Implementing
Tom Tromey had a Silly desktop idea for the GNOME desktop project — create a small interpreter that can load freedesktop.org desktop entry specification files, and then make those filese executable, so one can just execute the .desktop file to load the appropriate app. I read this and thought, “Huh, that is a good idea,” and [...]
The Wii is Coming
Earlier today, Voodoo Extreme got word from several sources with the Nintendo Wii launch information. Sony and Microsoft can fight their little overpriced battle with hardware whose core interfaces and concepts haven’t changed in 20 years. I’m going with Nintendo. Read all the juicy bits here. Now I need to save [...]
I’m Getting Fed Up with Apple
After a terribly disappointing round of announcements at WWDC, I’m giving serious reconsideration to my affiliation with Apple and the Mac OS X platform. I’ve grown weary of Apple’s constant push to upgrade – if you’re not running the latest version of Mac OS X you may as well be running DOS. I’m tired [...]
So Much for Sun
So Sun finally got back to me about the Try and Buy thing. Long story short, they wanted to authorize a roughly $5,000 — the price of the Ultra 40 I was looking to test drive — charge against my credit card in order for me to get the system. I don’t have [...]
Sun Microsystems Experience, Part 2
So I called again to follow up on my Try and Buy order of my Ultra 40, and I spoke with a very friendly and helpful lady who informed me of some things of which I was not previously aware.
Sun Microsystems Experience, Part 1
While I still haven’t gotten my Ultra 40 yet, I did take an opportunity today to call Sun and ask them where my order was in the process. The menu options were sensible and easily navigated, and I was speaking with a friendly gentleman in short order. He was unable to find my [...]