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Dev box upgrading

Well, since it looks like I’m working from home starting in 2 weeks time I am going to need to replace Whistler and Avoriaz because a) they are noisy, b) they are old and slow, c) they take up to much room and d) they are noisy. I don’t need much umph, I just need small, quiet and 2 SATA (which I have). I am thinking an Asus T3-P5G965 S775 barebones with an Intel E6320 and some CorsairTwinX XMS2 DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM. Other than ordering from Scan being a bad idea, anyone have any thoughts?

Oh, regards external hard drives, I got a Freecom USB/FW400 one, its good. No idea whats in it though, I CBA.

Update: Just ordered one box from Microdirect. As above but with OCZ RAM.

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8 responses to “Dev box upgrading”

  1. welikegoats avatar
    welikegoats

    Shuttle.

  2. al_bullit avatar
    al_bullit

    Yes, but why would I want to spend over twice as much? If not three times more.

  3. korpora avatar
    korpora

    order from microdirect 🙂 or rather, i just walk down the road and pick stuff up… 🙂

  4. welikegoats avatar
    welikegoats

    Because they are small and quiet, which appeared to be your requirements.

  5. icklemichael avatar
    icklemichael

    You may have said this before, but I have missed it if you have it. What is your new job?

  6. al_bullit avatar
    al_bullit

    Contracting. First job is for the people running the travel sites Orient Express bought from Open World. I can’t leave the JServ joys behind! ARGH!

  7. icklemichael avatar
    icklemichael

    Do you still have my beautiful upgrade from JServ to Jetty bash script?

    Why did this never get run?

  8. al_bullit avatar
    al_bullit

    We were still on Java 1.3 and JServ because 1.4 had “issues” with SMP on older glibc installations, like what we had with Slackware 8.0. I suppose now its all Gentoo and modern glibc we could switch to 1.4 and Jetty, but I suspect it isn’t worth it.

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