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Building your own PC is now too costly: Why self-build anymore?
Over the last few months I've been investigating the replacement of my current games PC. The guts of the system are now approximately five years old and have had a mid-life upgrade of processor and graphics card to the fastest that the Socket 939 and AGP ports can support. It's time to move on ( Read more... ) -
[Retro computing] Time passes, processors go faster, basic tasks take the same time.
This morning, having been playing with the Sinclair QL last night and having it still sitting on a coffee table I decided to see just how different the time it takes from powering up a computer until it's ready for a basic task has changed in the 25 years between the QL's manufacture and my MacBook Pro ( Read more... ) -
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I've been rather neglecting LJ recently. I've nothing useful to say really as life is merely trundling on ( Read more... ) -
Courier madness
I've ordered some parts for my Dad's PC down here in west Cornwall and they're due for delivery today. So, I decided to take a look at where Citylink's "local" offices were so as to gauge when the delivery window might be ( Read more... ) -
Southampton, iPhones and lying web sites.
Last weekend I updated my iPod Touch to the new version 2.0 firmware which, for the first time, allowed it to talk to the network at work and added the capability of installing extra software. This is basically the same firmware as in the new iPhone 3G, except without the phone, bluetooth and GPS.
I decided this week to use the device at work as a ( Read more... ) -
Test update using iPod Touch over cisco VPN
Well, both WPA Enterprise and Cisco VPN seems to work pretty smoothly using the new version 2.0 firmware for the iPod Touch and iPhone ( Read more... ) -
Life update
I've been rather bad at updating this journal for quite a while now. Mostly not being able to get the energy up to do so really.
Anyway, what have I been doing lately?
I think you could round up my experience at work as being a couple of bad months. Basically, during May a server failed and had to be recovered every week for the first three weeks. On ( Read more... ) -
Stuff
Well, I've not been bothering to update this in quite a while. Call it apathy or merely laziness ( Read more... ) -
Why the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch SDK is (almost) pointless.
The Cake^H^H^H^HSDK is a lie!
The release of the iPhone/iPod Touch SDK last week has not gone without comment on the 'Net, most of it being gut reaction to the terms and conditions imposed by Apple to allow the applications to be distributed via their gatekeeper site. I've been mulling this and the technical restrictions Apple have devised and come ( Read more... ) -
Computer Security: Oh dear, oh dear.
I've just read this article in the on-line edition of the New Scientist.
Of course, the "technique" which allows the contents of main memory to be held on the hard disk is not exactly new. Indeed, BSD derived operating systems had that as the default until the last 90's. That is pre-allocating memory pages in swap and doing a copy them to disk on ( Read more... )