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Is the Gigabyte 8I945GMF:

Okay, so it's a micro-ATX motherboard. Things are a dime a dozen.

Okay so it supports 4 channels of SATA II. And 4GB of DDR2 memory (533 or 667 MHz, your choice). And has gigabit ethernet built in. And video. What's so special?

Here's what's so special: It also supports the new Pentium D. Dual core, up to 3.2GHz, in a micro-ATX case. (Well, I'd limit myself to the 2.8GHz if I didn't want things to melt.)

If you happen to be in the market for a small but powerful web server - on a budget* - this is it.

Now, where is that ram disk on a card, Gigabyte peeps?

* Which I am, for obvious reasons.

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1 Pixy (a bleg).
Is there any way possible for me to get an additional blog in MT 3? I know I already have two, but my organization method floweth over. I'd so appreciate it. Cannot locate your email address;-)

Posted by: sadie at July 09, 2005 04:42 AM (7SNDe)

2 I want one of those. I can't say no to new toys

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Just got the written quote from the removals company.

Bloody hell.

Uh, can I change my mind now?

Update: My boss is friends with some guys who do removals - they moved our office - and they can do it much much cheaper, probably about one third what I was quoted.

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1 Isn't moving grand?
:-D

Posted by: tommy at July 06, 2005 12:00 PM (OJ+GI)

2 Tip: Never accept the first quote. Just got another quote for about half the amount - just hugely expensive rather than astronomically so.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2005 12:28 PM (AIaDY)

3 Why can't I comment?

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4 What I mean is, did somebody ban "is"?

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5 My email to you bounced.

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Happy 4th!

I'd say more, but dammit Jim, I'm dead again.

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I was never that impressed with Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, because it seemed to me that Diamond had come up with the conclusion first, and then carefully sifted through the facts to select those that supported it. It's perfectly reasonable to create the hypothesis first, but what you then have to do is search for facts which don't support it. Karl Popper and that whole falsification thingy.

What I hadn't realised before now was that Jared Diamond is a complete loony. Andrea Harris has the goods.

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Is the Palm LifeDrive. It's a Palm Pilot with a 4GB disk drive stuck in it.

I sort of want one, but I already have a T3, so I'm waiting for a higher resolution screen, more memory, and a faster processor. The 416MHz Xscale is fine for most tasks, but falls flat when it comes to displaying video. Apparently the LifeDrive is better at this than the T3, but the T3 is complete crap for video, so that's not necessarily much of a recommendation.

On the other hand, 4GB! On the third hand, disk drive. Just what I need, more rapidly spinning mechanical components in pocket devices. I have a 1GB SD card in my T3; 2GB cards are available though not, as far as I can see, in Australia, so while 4GB is cool, it's not that cool.

On the fourth hand, I've been listening to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy again recently, and it struck me that with something like the LifeDrive, you could, well, do that.

I still want at least a 480x640 screen, though.

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If George Romero and Cubby Broccoli had been switched at birth*

Dr. Dead
From Russia with Death
Deadfinger
Deadball
You Only Die Twice
On Her Late Majesty's Secret Service
Diemonds Are Forever
Die and Let Die
The Zombie with the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Killed Me
Graveraker
For Dead Eyes Only
Deadpussy
A View to a Corpse
The Dying Daylights
Zombeye
Tomorrow Dies
The Afterworld Is Not Enough
Die Yet Another Day
Never Say Nevermore Again

* Tricky since they were born thirty years apart...

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Is the Maxtor Shared Storage Drive. It's a file server. It looks like an external hard disk, but it's a file server. It's got two USB ports, but that's for attaching more disk drives. Or printers, because it's also a print server.

$549 for the 300GB model, $449 for 200GB. (Australian pricing.) That's $100 more than the plain external drive.

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What a comforting fact that is to know.

(Via Owlish)

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2 Well, yes. Note that I scored 0% for everything.

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I'm looking for a CMS. My own development attempts have foundered on the twin reefs of lack of time and scalability (mainly database problems).

I'm not asking for much. All I want is:

• Unlimited blogs, forums, wikis and portals feeding from a common pool of articles and comments. That is, a post can appear on a blog and a forum and a wiki, with its comments and other details intact.


• Sub-sites with their own domains - and their own layouts


• Group-based permissions


• Semantic markup


• RSS feeds


• Page, block and template based site construction


• In-line and out-of-line editing


• A few nice clean themes to start with


• Absolutely no PHP or SQL coding required of - or indeed available to - regular users


• Plugin / module architecture


• Web services API


• Runs on Linux


• Doesn't cost more than US$2000 (Free is good. Open source is better.)


• Fully integrated and self-contained. I don't need a choice of three different blog modules, each using a different commenting system.


• An application, not a service.


• No usage restrictions. None of this "you can't run a hosting service" stuff.


• Background processing for big tasks like spam removal.


• Scales to thousands of sites.

Any ideas?

I have a list of nice-to-haves, but it's kind of long. I'll post that later.

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1 I was sort of hoping you were writing it....

Posted by: Any A. Mouse at June 28, 2005 01:45 AM (kCb5q)

2 Sounds great. Let us know when you finish it.

Posted by: TallDave at June 28, 2005 09:07 AM (H8Wgl)

3 Bah!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2005 09:14 AM (+S1Ft)

4 You want:
- Plugin / module architecture
But also:
- Fully integrated and self-contained. I don't need a choice of three different blog modules, each using a different commenting system.

Most of the open-source CMS I know are very big on modularity, and none of them match all your criteria. You might want to try a commercial alternative, although it is slightly more than $2000.

Posted by: Jojo at June 28, 2005 01:01 PM (08+db)

5 The core features must be fully integrated and self-contained, and blogs, forums, wikis and portals should be part of the core, not four (or fourteen) different plugins from four (fourteen) different authors that don't interoperate at all. (See: PostNuke.) But it should still be extensible.
And I'm paying for this out of my own pocketses (if I ever find anything suitable). So multi-million-dollar five-year-implementation type stuff need not apply.

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6 Anyways:
Most of the open-source CMS I know are very big on modularity, and none of them match all your criteria.
That's what I've found too. The packages available are all either (a) elegant but very limited in their functionality or (b) mazes of twisty little modules, none of which work quite right or integrate with any of the other modules.
Or (c) cost $70,000 for the basic package, and even more if you want actual features.

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7 I really like Pivot, for example. And it does about 20% of what I want. Which is about the best I seem to be able to get.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2005 01:43 PM (RbYVY)

8 Mambo looks like it might come close. But not all that close - there'd be a lot (templates, etc) you'd have to construct yourself.

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9 I'm using Mambo for another project, and I'm gradually falling out of love with it.

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10 As I have been confused about wikis for a few days now, you can bet the rest of this is way, way over my head.

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My computers have been working fine just lately, so I was waiting, and there, my washing machine (the new one) just blew up.

It doesn't turn on at all, so it's probably just the fuse. Do you think they provide any indication at all of where the fuse is or how to replace it?

Yeah. Right.

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1 You can find a lot of info at repairclinic.com. For instance exploded pictures of washing machines you can hover a mouse over, and get explanations of different parts, and suggestions for possible repairs.
I don't think washing machines have fuses, but perhaps there's some overload-control that might need to be reset. I'm sure you are saavy enough to have tested the circuit it's plugged into...
Good luck.

Posted by: John Weidner at June 27, 2005 08:16 AM (u8iRz)

2 Well, I hope it has a fuse, because otherwise it's broken.
At least it waited until I'd finished the washing before it went splut.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 27, 2005 12:47 PM (RbYVY)

3 The fuse is in the most inaccessable location on the machine. That's where it ALWAYS is.
Except when the fuse ISN'T the problem. Then it's right out front where it's easy to get to.

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One local store has the new Athlon 64 X2 in stock. Starting at $885 (for a 2.2GHz 512k cache) and going up to $1639 (for a 2.4GHz 1MB cache). Compared to $408 for the 2.8GHz Intel Pentium D, it's not exactly a bargain.

Meh.

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One of those weeks.

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Intel's dual-core Pentium D is out, and at a reasonable price (around A$400 for the 2.8GHz model). I'd love to put one in my Windows machine, because the rue for making Windows run at a reasonable speed is "One CPU for each application, plus one more for Windows".

Unfortunately, it's only available as Socket 775, where my machine is Socket 478. That's not too bad, I can get a Socket 775 motherboard pretty cheap.

Except that it won't run on just any Socket 775 motherboard; you have to have one based on the Intel 945 chipset. Those motherboards aren't quite so cheap, but they're not unreasonably priced.

Except that they only support DDR-II memory, so I'd have to replace all my memory. And they only support PCI Express, so I'd have to replace my video card.

So it ends up costing $1400 rather than $400. I might as well wait for the dual-core Athlon 64, which will at least use my existing memory.

Meh.

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The asian supermarket closest to New Pixy Central doesn't sell the strawberry Pocky that I like. It does sell two other types of strawberry Pocky; just not the one I like. I'm not sure about the asian supermarket second closest to New Pixy Central. The asian supermarket third closest to New Pixy Central does sell the strawberry Pocky that I like, but that's another four minutes walk.

The asian supermarket near the office (or rather, the new asian supermarket near the office, not the old asian supermarket near the office) also sells the strawberry Pocky that I like, but it charges ten cents more than the asian supermarket third closest to New Pixy Central.

On a side note, your Pocky has not expired. That first date is the date it was made. The second date, roughly a year later, is the use-by date. Enjoy your fresh, crunchy Pocky.

Oh yeah:

what flavor pocky are you?
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Your IQ Is 135

Your Logical Intelligence is Genius Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Exceptional [damn!]

(Swiped from Margi Lowry)

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Expect more than the usual level of chaos for the next few weeks - Pixy Central is moving. This should be lots of fun.

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Picked up The Hallowed Hunt today. This is the third book in the series that began with The Curse of Chalion, the best book to date by one of my favourite authors, Lois McMaster Bujold (better known for her Miles Vorkosigan novels).

Also in the store was John Varley's latest, Mammoth. I didn't buy that one because (a) it runs foul of Pixy's 77th Law (all books titled "Mammoth" suck), and (b) his last novel, Red Thunder, was complete crap. Maybe when it comes out in paperback.

Update: SPIT! It's US$16.47 at Amazon. Here in Oz it's A$54. Will someone please round up the Australian book publishing and distribution industry and shoot them? Thanks.

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Xshell. An SSH client/terminal emulator for Windows that doesn't suck.

Much.

And it looks like version 2 (currently in beta) will remove most of the remaining suck.

I got a nice new monitor at work today - a 17" Acer LCD, 1280x1024. It's very sharp and clear on a DVI cable on my Windows box, but on a VGA cable connected to either of my office Linux boxes the picture starts halfway across the screen and nothing I do will make it move. One of my Linux boxes has DVI output, but it doesn't actually output anything, so it's not a lot of use.

I have to have access to my Linux boxes to do my job, so I spent an hour downloading SSH clients trying to find one that didn't suck. Xshell was it.

Downside: It costs $69. Oh, and you have to bang it on the head a few times to knock some of the suck out (depending on what you consider suck), but it's configurable enough that you can get it working just the way you want with a few minutes of tweaking.

Xshell gets a silver "Doesn't suck much at all" award.

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1 Why not PuTTY? Kind of curious, since it's pretty pervasive in my experience (to be honest, I don't know anyone who uses anything else), it's free (and open source), and seems to do everything I've ever needed quite well. Does Xshell have some killer feature PuTTY is missing, or what?

Posted by: Cody at June 15, 2005 09:58 PM (GaTJ4)

2 I forgot about PuTTY - I haven't used it for ages.
Yeah, PuTTY is pretty good. But Xshell 2 has tabbed shelling. Since I typically have shells open on twelve servers at once, and multiple sessions on some of them, I neeeeed tabbed shelling.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 15, 2005 10:27 PM (+S1Ft)

3 Ah. Yes, I can see where that would be a "killer feature".

Posted by: Cody at June 16, 2005 06:32 AM (GaTJ4)

4 Wow, talk about praising with faint damns... I'll have to steal that Silver "Doesn't Suck Much At All" award!

Posted by: Wonderduck at June 16, 2005 04:07 PM (ds0+e)

5 Yeah, I just got stuck with PuTTY as part of my upcoming WinCVS gulag imprisonment (where's Amnesty International when I need them???). It's OK I guess, but I still hate it just for being associated with my our less-than-worthless WinCVS implementation.

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6 Can someone please just convince my employer to implement whatever stupid thingy is needed on the Exchange Server for Evolution to be able to connect to all the IMAP stuff? I swear, if they would do that I would abandon Windows forevermore! Then I wouldn't have to worry about whether I want to use PuTTY or XShell (tabbed is pretty cool though!) because I could get my SSH native, thank you very frigging much.

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Australian hostage Douglas Wood has been rescued by American and Iraqi troops. A number of terrorists have been detained following the rescue operation.

My thanks to the soldiers who accomplished the rescue, and my best wishes to Mr Wood and his family.

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Real Basic 2005 is out! Yay!

Real Basic is another cross-platform Basic compiler supporting Windows, Mac and Linux, just like Blitz Max. Where Blitz is aimed at game development, though, Real Basic is designed for doing businessy-type stuff, with databases and GUIs and like that. It comes with the SQLite database built in, and the Professional (read: expensive) version can connect to other databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL and Oracle. You can write multi-threaded server applications too, like, oh, say, a blogging package, and compile it to run on any of those platforms. Again, you need the Expensive Edition to write server applications and to do cross-compilation.

However, if you want to get your feet wet, Real Software have done something real nice: The Standard Edition for Linux is free. Well, right now the Linux version is still in beta, but the beta is free and it will remain free once it's released. I think that's a very smart move for Real Software.

Naturally, I've downloaded the beta and the Windows trial version, and I'll be reporting back once I've played with it a bit. And I'll likely be buying it as soon as their Australian distributor wakes up and realises there's a new version available...

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Fedora Core 4 is out!

Just when I finally got everything working on Fedora Core 4 Test 3.

Well, I expect that upgrading probably won't destroy everything.

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I forgot to (a) set my new modem to respond to pings and (b) create a NAT rule for SSH. So now I can't home from work.

(Yeah, most people are happy with being able to work from home, but I'm a nut for symmetry.)

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I've noticed lately that separatist sentiment has been on the rise in western Canada, what with the government being hopelessly corrupt and the eastern provinces being happy that way. I was reflecting that such a situation is hard to relate to as an Australian, when I was struck by a thought.

The general idea is for Alberta and maybe Manitoba and Saskatchewan and who knows, British Columbia, to break away from Ontario and the Maritimes and then, um. Form their own nation? Apply to join the US?

Heck with that. Join Australia. You know it makes sense. You have the snow, we have the beaches. Both rich in mineral resources. Both sparsely populated. Both have funny accents. Both love beer. Both have mooses... No? Okay, scratch the mooses.

And in part two, what we do is - get this - sell South Australia to the Japanese. It's not like anyone's using it. It's two-and-a-half times the size of Japan, and has roughly one hundredth the population. They'll love it! Okay, they're kind of broke right now, but we'll take payment in Playstation 3s and anime. Or they could join the Commonwealth of Australia, the Good Bits of Canada, and Japan. (CoAtGBoCaJ.)

Where's the downside?

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