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Video guide to setting up the X4200
A Sun engineer provides a detailed (and occasionally light-hearted) look at how to set up an X4200 server through a series of video guides on YouTube. Step 1: Anti-Static Setup Step 2: Hard Drive Install Step 3: PCI Card Install Step 4: DVD Instal…
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Cool tools for hot laptops
Belkin have announced two cool tools for using your hot laptop – and I’m talking about the temperature here. You can see them at Gizmodo: Belkin Releases Lap-Friendly CushTop, PocketTop Laptop Accessories. The CushTop is the one I’m most intereste…
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Using static disks in Parallels for performance
Using a static disk, or even just multiple disks, within Parallels can make a big difference to performance. This is particularly true with Windows virtual machines within OS X; I’ve managed to change the boot time from about 30 seconds to under 2…
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ATA-over-Ethernet for Solaris
I noticed for the first time recently the ATA over Ethernet product from Coraid. There’s a Solaris driver available (impressively in both SPARC binary, Solaris 7+ (direct download) and source (direct download), under a BSD-like license. The releas…
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Niagara II
The Niagara II architecture is on the way, and it promises to double the throughput of the original T1 (Niagara) CPU and provide a host of other benefits. The Niagara CPU (T1) as provided in the T1000 (read my T1000 in more detail review) and T200…
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Parallels Update
Parallels for Mac has been updated, but its the stuff beyond the highlight elements that I find most interesting. The headline elements are: Support for the new Mac Pro (and up to 3.5GB RAM Support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Experimental support …
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Making a single extractor
One of my new articles is on smplifying your command line (read more about System Administrators Toolkit: Standardizing your UNIX command-line tools, making your life easier as you move between different environments. The same principles can be ap…
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Photo blogging with the K800i
As planned, I got a K800i earlier this week, and it’s taken me the best part of the week to try and sort out all of the different elements. I already did a quick post on Convergence in mobile phones with the SE K800i at ComputerWorld, but I though…
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Live Search Plugin
I’ve noticed that a larger number of people come to the site and start searching for a particular entry, so I’ve decided to add the excellent Wordpress Live Search Plugin to the site. Now when you search, you’ll get a live list beneath the search …
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Niagara optimized ‘cooltools’
I’m in the process of doing some testing on the T1000 which I currently have on test at the moment. Some of these tests will be entirely focused on the performance of Cheffy, which uses a combination of Apache, MySQL and Perl. I’ve also been think…