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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2009/11/4-17 [Computer/SW/P2P, Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/Security] UID:53495 Activity:nil | 11/4 Holy cow, I got a warning from my ISP that they were notified
by BSA/baytsp.com that I was copying music/video/software.
Do they do port scan or something? That's a first for me.
\_ They hang out on P2P networks and track IP addresses. -tom
\_ I believe they are paid by content providers to perform this
monitoring service, so you should only run this risk with content
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2009/10/1-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53417 Activity:moderate | 10/1 I am thinking of installing firefox on soda under my home directory.
Will this make me a hozer?
\_ Possibly. I wonder if we should have another VM for that...btw,
I remember someone saying they're glad we're not on FreeBSD
anymore, but last I checked, a bunch of our stuff is on FreeBSD,
but our login server is not.
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2009/7/28-8/6 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:53213 Activity:nil | 7/27 I have an actual technical question here. My MySQL DBA tells me
that I can't expect a MySQL port to be able to run effectively
on more than a two CPU box, he says that the extra CPUs will
sit there unused. Is this true? I have a bunch of new quad core
servers that I would like to use as Database machines. -ausman
\_ It's not that simple. If you stress test your new fancy multi core
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