Desktops
Nerd News Today; 4/10
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007AMD not backing down from a price war. Even though its finances aren’t as strong as they used to be, AMD is still looking to war with Intel on the price tag front. Cuts across its entire desktop line, including the dual core set. (Source: InfoWorld)
But we still wish the Core 2 Extremes had more […]
Nerd News Today; 4/5
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Kiss that VGA port buh-bye. The VESA org just gave official blessing to the DisplayPort 1.1 spec. Gonna replace VGA and DVI ports for flat panel displays. Faster, supports all those hi-def bits, and has a smaller physical plug, too. Also integrates that Blu-Ray DRM stuff, unfortunately. (Source: BetaNews)
Wikipedia founder dissing…Wikipedia? One of the co-founders […]
The fists of God
Friday, March 30th, 2007Earlier this evening — well before several Lagavulins with Jon Udell — I posted to my InfoWorld blog about two high-end workstations I’ve been using for the past month or so. I get a lot of “I could build that system for $20 from newegg.com” emails whenever I post about workstations, but honestly, that’s just […]
Rant on MOAB
Monday, March 26th, 2007Sorry, I have to do this.
The FUD surrounding security issues with the Mac has recently gone plaid. It was MOAB (Month of Apple Bugs) in January, followed by a seemingly constant stream of Windows folks pointing at that site and screaming “SEE?!”.
Sorry. It’s mostly bullshit.
First, the MOAB project should have been named “Month of Bugs […]
Beryl really is that cool
Monday, March 5th, 2007I’ve been running Beryl for a month or so on my main FC6 workstation. It really is as cool as it looks. At this point, installing it on FC6 simply requires adding the extras repo and searching for beryl in the GUI software tool or a yum install beryl-gnome or yum install beryl-kde from the […]