rudyamid on September 9th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

I completed my PC hardware setup.  Last weekend, I concentrated a good chunk of time to get the software up and running.  My Operating System of choice now is Windows Vista Ultimate.  I’m planning to upgrade my PC to 8Gb of RAM, so I’ll need the 64-bit support to take advantage of it.  Initially, I […]

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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 June 4th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

Wow, I couldn’t believe I had to rebuild my Linux server, yet again after 2+ years of operation.  I always suspected the old 80Gb Maxtor drive to be flawed, but not this serious.  I procastinated in fixing it and too laxed on the backup.  Well, last week thursday, after a city-wide power failure, my drive […]

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