Month: August 2008

  • New NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems Bring Visual Supercomputing To The Deskside

    I’m gonna date myself here and ask….Does anyone remember the Agnus Chip? How about the Fatter Agnus or the Alice? For those of you who don’t know these were the original and upgraded OCS/ECS chips that did most of the amazing (for the time) graphics for the Amiga computer back in the late-80’s/early-90’s. Fast forward…

  • Things you need to know before buying an LCD monitor…..

    Research, research, research…..and then some more research. (most) LCD manufacturers are trying to cut costs down so you need to know what you’re paying for before you walk into the store. So here are a bunch of good sites to go to in order to find the relevant information: Jeff Atwood’s great little introduction of…

  • When SysAdmins Ruled The Earth…

    Just found this on Cory Doctrow’s blog…..When SysAdmins Ruled The Earth….It’s a great read/listen, specially if you’re a current/former SysAdmin. Here are the different parts read during his podcast over a couple of sessions: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 If you like to read it yourself here is…