I like HP servers. True enough, I like Supermicro better, but big companies tend not to like Supermicro due to the fact you have to assemble them yourself, and there’s no real support / SLA agreement possible with them (for now – I hear it’s in the works). Most people Read more »
Category Archives: general
my dream house
A couple of years ago I discovered my dream home, it’s from Lockwood, an NZ based company specialised in wood based homes with some extraordinary designs, and build to last in even the harshest of climates. (the NZ building code is among the toughest in the world – I’ve read Read more »
holy 23″ screen!
They just dragged in no less then 5 Apple HD Cinema 23″ screens here. And HOT DAMN those screens are cool. Just the thing to hook up to my MacBook Pro, but alas, I will have stick to my Sony 20″ CRT screen here at work for now…. [ad]
burglars suck
Okay, so recently my wife gave me a nice samsung flat screen HD ready 66cm TV, great thing, excellent picture, a joy to watch tv on. (specialy, when you’re addicted to CSI:* and Discovery Channel / National Geographic Channel – like we are). But, as the title of this post Read more »
vmware beta’s DirectX support in Fusion
VMWare announced a new beta of their Fusion product for Mac OS X, one of the more interesting features of this beta is the hardware 3D support. (DirectX 8.1 only for now). This is an interesting development to say the least. I’ve heard rumblings that that other Mac virtualisation company, Read more »
Bikes and Subways
really do not match! Why do people take their bikes into a subway? The trains are overcrowded as it is in rush-hour, and every so many stops someone rams a bike into a compartment. It’s one of the many things I think the GVB (The company that does all of Read more »
Why I won’t upgrade to Windows Vista
It’s fairly well known that I run windows xp on my home computer (for my work I have a MacBook Pro). The only reason I run Windows XP on that thing ( it’s acctualy a triple boot system: Windows XP, FreeBSD 6.2 and Ubuntu) is for playing games. ( I’m Read more »
Just testing
Another post for fiddling around with wordpress. For one I can see why this thing is so popular, it has a very easy interface, and yet still very powerful if you read up on the specs of WP a bit. I think I’ll put my entire site in WP, and Read more »
another convert
Half the world seems to blog using wordpress, and I was not… I was still editing a html file on my server whenever I felt like it. (which wasn’t that often).I decided to join the rank of converts and installed wordpress. For the time being, I’ll just fiddle with it Read more »