I thought "Well, it was months since Gutsy came out. All the bugs should be gone now. Let's try an distro-upgrade." Boy, was I wrong.
Today a colleague noted to me that Ubuntu doesn't load SMP by default. Could it be possible that I am not running my system at full speed yet?! That would be insain! Come to think of it, I did use the i386 kernel (because I had it laying around (yes, I am very lazy)), and my current /proc/cpuinfo contains only 1 cpu. by Martin @ 12:56 25 September 2006
everything runs pretty fine, but I just found out that wine (specifically World of Warcraft) can't use the sound device at the same time as skype. After some googling I found that in linux, any program gets exclusive access to the soundcard. A workaround can be found in this tutorial. Now, if I start skype with 'aoss skype' and WoW with 'aoss wine Wow.exe -opengl', and configure the sound in winecfg to use the EsounD driver, I can run both at the same time. by Martin @ 12:14 24 September 2006
Finally my revenge! I've upgraded totally, this is my shopping list:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E 6600
- Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard
- Asus Nvidia 7600 GS Top Silent 512 MB
- 2x 1 GB of G.E.I.L. PC-6400 DDR2
- Coolermaster CM Stacker 830
Also decided that this new system will not feel the pain of Winblows. Installed Ubuntu instead, it was quite a breeze.
I made a lot of pictures while building this monster last week, just click here. by Martin @ 12:02 8 September 2006
... 256 MB's of my twinmos RAM died, caused problems booting (had fast boot enabled)... downgraded from 768 to 512 MB RAM ... by Martin @ 13:00 1 December 2005
Bought a Black Cherry Keyboard and a Logitech MX310 optical mouse. Up till now, I had a 6 year old keyboard and mouse, they just wore out. I also had some weird crashes lately, XP would load normally, but after a minute or so, power shuts off suddenly. No warnings, just PlOOP, power-off, like pulling out the plug. I figured it was the cheap-ass Q-tech PSU, so this time I bought a R34l P1mp PSU by Cooler Master, the RS-450-ACLY Real Power 450W for EUR 82. It features blue neon and a 12 cm intake fan and a power consumption monitor, for in your 3,5" drive! by Martin @ 12:57 1 January 2005
Bought these pair of Acer AL1714 17" TFT panels! by Martin @ 11:56 8 September 2004
Made an image of the fresh installation. by Martin @ 11:55 9 August 2004
Windows crashed badly. Removed all my settings. I am fed up. Formatted C and reinstalled windows XP. It was a hardware error in the 80 GB Maxtor drive. I disconnected it. Also lost my Slackware installation, because I used it's space to install windows XP, without having to repartition the 200 GB harddrive. by Martin @ 11:13 6 August 2004
So, it's done. Upgraded my cpu to the Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred (I could buy a 2600+ for EUR 50 more, but that seemed a waste on a cost of EUR 75). I installed 512 MB Twinmos PC-2700 DDR (EUR 89) and a new low-noise 400 Watt (gold colored) Q-tech PSU (EUR 30). My current configuration. by Martin @ 11:11 28 March 2004