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Finally Rearranged Home Office

Jeff — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:29:33 +0000

A little while ago I finished building a six-core workstation to replace my works-just-fine dual-core. Yesterday I rearranged the home office to put it into primary machine position.

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First Day with Foyo

Jeff — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:02:19 +0000

As I was turning in last night, my Droid begged for attention. After finishing brushing my teeth, I peeked at the screen. I expected yet another e-mail announcement, but instead was rewarded with the alert that my system update was available! I've been waiting for the update (code-named Froyo, as in Frozen Yogurt) mostly patiently since it was officially announced to be forthcoming a couple months ago. I set it on its upgrade and turned in. I've had a little time to dork with it today, so here's my first bit of impressions.

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Graffiti On Android

Jeff — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:43:49 +0000

Anyone who had an old-school Palm Pilot remembers Graffiti, I'm sure. It used to take the lower third of the screen, and allowed a sort of sloppy single-stroke letter sketching for input. no soft or real keyboard in those days.

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Vending Machine Bandit

Jeff — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:00:15 +0000

In an effort to have a quick lunch, I hit the vending machine. Yummy, right?

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Laptop Recovered from Magic-button Destruction

Jeff — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:44:02 +0000

After earlier bonking the wrong button to power-up the laptop, grimacing upon learning that destroys non-Windows partitions, and working to recover from it all, the system is back.

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Dell Magic Button Destroys Laptop

Jeff — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:44:49 +0000

"Destroys laptop" is a little harsh, but it did destroy a partition on my hard drive, the one responsible for booting and running my OS, rendering it no longer useful.

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Re-rearranging Servers

Jeff — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:34:45 +0000

Since I'm done building the hex-core, I decided that I could use the dual-core to host the web and mail services currently being served by a slower single-core Sempron. The dual-core nicely has twice the storage (500GB instead of 250G and four-times the RAM (8GB instead of 2G. Most importantly, the dual-core hasn't barked at the software upgrades. And the software on the dual-core is also mostly of the 64-bit variety.

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6-Core Phenom II Installation: Complete

Jeff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:00:16 +0000

The installation of the new CPU is done, and the system is up and running; posting this entry from it, as a matter of fact.

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