Several of my clients have hold back their RAM purchases. Especially for clients who are on a tight budget. The sweet spot of RAM size nowadays is around 4GB, two sticks of 2GB, but I honestly think they can get 2GB now and wait for prices to drop before getting another 2GB. Unless Photoshopping, video editing or gaming is your main reason you’re using your PC for, I think 2GB would do for now.
• Goodbye Mininova thanks for the happy times
November 26, 2009Mininova is no more. It has gone legit and removed all copyright infringing materials. I wager that means more than 75% of torrent links will be removed. Making Mininova’s once thriving repository of torrents a useless torrent site listing content distribution services. In other words, you might as well take Mininova off your bookmarks. I won’t [...]
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• Witnessing SSD do its magic
November 6, 2009Yesterday I witnessed first hand how SSD can literally change one’s computing experience. Nothing short of a relevation. I helped a client configure a personal computer from the group up. He wanted middle-of-the-range specs that would handle normal office softwares, non-intensive photo editing and web browsing. For the budget he set aside, I could easily build [...]
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• Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and ATI Radeon 9250 fix
October 31, 2009I’m using ATI Radeon 9250 and Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) can’t seem to configure my graphics card properly which makes the entire system so sluggish it’s impossible to use. As a note to self, I’m putting the contents of my custom xorg.conf file in my blog for future reference. Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala installation doesn’t have [...]
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• Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released and I’m pleased
October 30, 2009I’ve been using Kubuntu 9.10 release candidate for more than a week now. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, it’s quite good actually. With previous major releases, I’ve encountered numerous problems from the very first day of installation, especially with with KDE 4.2.x versions. But with Kubuntu 9.10 using the latest KDE 4.3.2, it [...]
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• Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Release Candidate and ATI Radeon 9250 woes
October 26, 2009I’ve been satisfied with Kubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 so far. Except for the sluggish and sometimes stuttering graphics with my ATI Radeon 9250 video card. I know my ATI 9250 is an old card, more than five years old to be precise but I doubt it lacks the power to handle mere 2D desktop graphics. [...]
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• AMD Athlon X4 620 Propus Quad Core
October 18, 2009This CPU is now the only quad-core CPU below $100 mark in the world. Needless to say, this CPU is now on my list of specs for my new PC. I have been planning to get myself Athlon dual cores and when the news broke about this sub-$100 quad-core, I’m ditching dual-cores. If you’ve been [...]
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