rudyamid on September 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm

It has been at least 3 years since my last PC build.  My rule of thumb is to build a new PC with at least twice the capacity at the same price.  A lot has changed in 3 years so it’s pretty easy to find new parts with at least 2x the power.  From my […]

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rudyamid on April 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

We went to Curry House today. It was a sunny day when we talked about: The “fusion” finish look of the new Toshiba Satellite U405 laptop. Live survey in the all hands meeting, based on a third-party company assessment. My choice of career advancement is “Work from home”, which is not a popular choice, apparently. […]

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rudyamid on January 24th, 2008 at 10:54 am

Summary: Upgrade the PC hardware. Add more hard disks. Update to the latest OS. This web site seems rather straight forward from a reader’s point of view. It’s actually a pretty complex system underneath it. It’s made up of many different components. It starts from the hardware, operating system, database, all the way to networking […]

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rudyamid on January 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm

It’s often too easy for me to just sit here, and be happy that I have a blog site up and running. I write, network with my circle of friends, and churn out content on a daily basis. Sometimes I take for granted how my blog is perceived by others. Earlier this year, I started […]

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rudyamid on December 23rd, 2007 at 9:57 pm

For a small site like mine, it takes a catastrophe to make me upgrade the server. Today was such a day. I had a problem with the old AMD Athlon CPU fan making a really loud noise. Previously, I had intermittent crashes. This server’s upgrade was long overdue. It now has my old desktop setup: […]

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