Fazal Majid's low-intensity weblogMostly random pontification, delivered at irregular intervals.Yet another AppleTV article- March 24, 2007 Ever since my Panasonic PVR died and I switched to an Elgato EyeTV 250 for my PVR needs, I hardly ever use my 32" Sharp Aquos LCD HDTV, and do most of my watching on my Mac's 23" Cinema HD display. To rectify this, I purchased an AppleTV yesterday at the San Francisco Apple Store, where they are prominently displayed, hooked up to Sony Bravia LCD TVs. While their choice of TV is questionable (remember, Sony is a four-letter word), the demo is effective for those who did not get to see it at...http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2007/03/24-1.html Glimpsed at Chicago O'Hare airport- March 22, 2007http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2007/03/22-1.html Is Vista a piece of unalloyed garbage- March 18, 2007 As far as I can see, the answer is yes. About a month ago, my two-year old Windows PC game machine started crashing every two minutes in NWN2. This proved the last straw, and I decided to upgrade. One of the games I have, but seldom play is Oblivion, which is graphically gorgeous, but chokes on anything but the most powerful hardware at ordinary resolutions, let alone my Apple Cinema Display HD's 1920x1200, and cutting-edge video cards are no longer available for the AGP bus in any case. I...http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2007/03/18-1.html The operating cost of a home server- March 2, 2007 Like many people, I keep a server running at home 247. In my case, it's an old but relatively quiet Compaq Evo D315 AMD Athlon XP2000 PC with 1GB of RAM, 750GB total disk space and running Solaris 10. It serves as my personal email server (Postfix and Dovecot), to run Temboz, and miscellaneous auxiliary services like DNS, SNMP or being a staging point for off-site backups via rsync. All in all, very light usage, less than 5% average CPU utilization. I have a Kill-a-Watt power meter measuring...http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2007/03/01-1.html |