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Bah


10 January 2004
(10:45)

Server breaking. Grr.

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Thrashy Stuff


08 April 2003
(04:29)

dionysus (my server) keeps thrashing when I use Perl's CPAN module to fetch more Perl modules. So I should buy some RAM.

I haven't really bought much RAM. dionysus can take FPM/EDO SIMMs, or FPM/EDO/SDRAM DIMMs. As all the others are much more expensive, SDRAM DIMMs seem the obvious answer. But then I read a comment about CAS latency in the motherboard manual, so I have to find out what that is, which different sorts of SDRAM DIMMs have which CAS latency, etc. So now I see silly detail about exactly what this means, and I'm still in the dark as to the CAS latency of the PC100/PC133 SDRAM Ebuyer sells. Anyway, for £6 I'll buy a 64MB DIMM (won't take no more) and see what happens.

Starting to think I should buy a printer. Hmm. Seems like decent yet cheap printers are linux supported these days.

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James—

crucial.com

http://www.crucial.com/ has a memory selector. It's very good.
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beaneater—

No use, I think

Unfortunately it seems to work with regards to motherboard manufacturer, whereas my motherboard manual carefully avoids mentioning any brand name. Oh, and the motherboard, I recall some time ago being unable to find out what chipset it used (the manual has the helpful label "chipset").
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Colin—

Eh?

Let me know when your ship comes close to earth and I will try to help with translation with the local humans.
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beaneater—

Multiplicities

If I can't write a variety of stuff here, there's not much point. If you notice the categories at the bottom of each post, I plan to 1. Make those more visible 2. Include a nice way to filter I haven't thought of a great way to do the latter, but when I get time it will be possible to see either non-geek or geek entries, for example, or more specific selections.
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Colin—

So

No problem just amazed at the strange language, makes me feel even more of a dinosaur.

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