| 2012/3/29-6/4 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54351 Activity:nil | 3/29 A friend wants a PC (no mac). She doesn't want Dell. Is there a
good place that can custom build for you (SSD, large RAM, cheap video
card--no game)?
\_ As a side note: back in my Cal days more than two decades ago when
having a 387SX made me the only person with floating-point hardware,
most machines were custom built.
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| 2011/9/14-10/25 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54173 Activity:nil | 9/13 Thanks to Jordan, our disk server is no longer virtualized. Our long
nightmare of poor IO performance should hopefully be over. Prepare for
another long nightmare of poor hardware reliability!
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Just kidding! (I hope)
In any case, this means that cooler was taken out back and shot, and
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| 2011/5/9-7/13 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:54106 Activity:nil | 5/4 Any thoughts about apple switching to ARM for all machines?
\_ Could only have happened if the Mac App Store had been a wild, wild
success, and they were willing to give up Steam. Games/dual-booting
is strategically valuable to not driving people away from macs.
A new ARM iOS based device, or opening the Apple TV to iOS apps
(same thing, really) would be much more likely than sabotaging their
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| 2009/9/13-21 [Computer/Networking] UID:53359 Activity:nil | 9/13 $100M just for creating a map of broadband coverge in the US!
http://www.csua.org/u/p1v (tech.yahoo.com)
\_ More porn for THE PEOPLE!!! Obamamama is great!!!
\_ You are right, it would be much better to spend that money
blowing shit up in Iraq.
\_ Your article has been classified as: mistruths and
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| 2009/7/21-24 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:53168 Activity:moderate | 7/20 For those who care btw, it looks like eclipse is now A Standard Tool
at UCB ugrad cs, probably replaced emacs. Furthermore, people get
angry at seeing Makefiles, (since eclispe takes care of that). I
guess it's just a sign of the times.
\_ The more people at my work use eclipse the less the code is
managable in emacs. I'm not sure which application's fault
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| 2009/5/6-9 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Display] UID:52954 Activity:low | 5/6 My new Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP finally arrived. While it's only
1/2 the cost of an Apple LED Cinema Display 24, it has very rich
colors and is super bright. However, it is HUGE. It's about 5 inches
thick and looks uber ugly on my little desk. Functionally, it
does what it does well, and the specifications are superb. But
it's like a PC-- full of features (CF card, SD card, 4 USB, VGA,
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| 2009/4/11-20 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Display] UID:52842 Activity:low | 4/10 What consumes less power on a LCD screen, showing an
all white scren or showing an all black screen?
\_ Depends what kind of LCD it is. Twisted-nematic displays (used in
everything from digital watches to good-quality monitors) use more
power for black, as you can guess by looking at a watch. In-plane
switching displays (popular in more expensive monitors) use more
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