matt | December 18, 2009
Well, I won’t be buying any Western Digital drives again anytime soon.
After many years of exclusively buying Seagate drives, I convinced myself that all current hard disk manufacturers are basically of the same quality. Therefore, I should be shopping on specs and price, not brand.
As such, I bought a 1TB Western Digital drive.
It didn’t last [...]
matt | August 26, 2009
So, this guy noticed something I noticed some years ago – that MS doesn’t allow the full amount of memory addressable by hardware to be available under Windows. Now, he basically says that he believes that MS is doing it for license reasons. He misses one serious supporting point: they do this with the 64 [...]
matt | August 22, 2009
So, I’m hitting this odd dichotomy, which I don’t understand.
Of course, there’s Arduino, which is a nice little embedded micro which has analog and digital I/O’s. Decent, functional, basically bare metal.
As a minor step up, Freescale is doing these tower systems, which are kind of a step up – beefier CPU, etc.
The thing which [...]
matt | August 10, 2009
Student Arrested for Modifying Consoles – This guy didn’t copy any games (at least, the article doesn’t say he did), thus, he didn’t commit any copyright infringement. This can be used for playing pirated games, but it can also be used for playing homebrew games, or running “unauthorized software” (like Linux). In case it is [...]
matt | August 3, 2009
So, when I find interesting things, I email myself to blog about them. Many of these are actually months old, and some of them are worth commenting on, and some of them are not. Enjoy:
Severed Fifth – Jono Bacon’s solo metal project. I’ve not listened to the album, but the idea is interesting.
Matt and Trey [...]
matt | July 22, 2009
So:
The radeonhd driver is now doing hardware 3D acceleration, but not at any reasonable speed.
The radeon driver is now doing hardware 3D acceleration, but leaves some odd graphics artefacts at times (even 2D), and has enough performance to run googlearth, but not to run doom3.
(This is with a Radeon Mobility X1400).
I need to test the [...]
matt | April 27, 2009
So, this article had me thinking about computers, usage patterns, etc.
In general, for my normal computing tasks, a processor about as powerful as the Intel atom in my netbook is enough. Maybe something a little more powerful, so that the hulu/youtube/etc isn’t so choppy (it is a very little bit choppy).
The only things which really [...]
matt | April 8, 2009
I wanted to install Trac into an OpenVZ container on Daisy, and when I installed the Ubuntu openvz kernel, it wouldn’t boot.
Doing a little poking around, it looks like that kernel is compiled with PAE turned on, and if your CPU doesn’t support it, it won’t boot.
So, the choice is to recompile my own kernel, [...]
matt | April 3, 2009
Looks like Sun and SGI are both headed for the end of the line.
Kind of a shame, but on the other hand, both IRIX and Solaris failed to keep up with the times – going from a modern Linux or BSD to one of them just feels… clunky.
matt | April 2, 2009
So, I got my 4GB of memory and chucked it in, only to find out that the laptop can only see 3GB of it. Hmmm…
64 bit CPU? Check.
64 bit OS? Check.
WHaaaa?
Hunh…
Note: Only 64-bit operating systems support more than 3GB of system memory (RAM). Intel Chipsets 945GM and 945PM do not support more than 3GB system [...]
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