John H Goodwin

Nice give away!

MS is running a special to give away copies of Visual Studio 2005 Standard

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For fun, I thought I'd post a few benchmarks of my system.

Interesting times. I got my ServeRaid 6i, installed it, but I'm having similar issues with performance that my friend did with his ServeRaid 4LX in part 1 of this article.

My system is a bit different from my friend.

• IBM xSeries 345
• 2GB Registered ECC PC2100 (2x1GB)
• 2x36GB 10K RPM U320
• 2x2.8Ghz Xeon w/ Hyperthreading (Prestonia core)

While using a personal computer has become a source of both fun and frustration, there has been an increasing threat to your ability to block out unwanted software from unsavory people.

Protecting your computer takes several forms.

The four most common areas of desired protection:

Speaking with a friend of mine on FreeNode.net, he had pointed out an interesting apparent performance bottleneck.

His server while quite old (x232, 8668-54X) had three 18GB 10k RPM drives.

He sent me the following picture which the performance metric seemed out of whack for several reasons.

Following is a quote from Microsoft's announcement on MechCommander 2 Shared Source Release page with a few handy hyperlinks tossed in:

 Overview

 This is the Shared Source release for MechCommander 2. This release contains all of the source code and source assets required to build MechCommander 2. This release can be used with the Microsoft XNA Build March 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP).

For all interested persons, I have updated my resume.

Tiny MCE added!

Let's see if I can get this TinyMCE to work right on Drupal. I probably installed some extra files I didn't actually need.

Maybe I'll have a bit more formatting.

Well, as a software developer, I am appalled at the usability of CMS's written in .NET if DotNetNuke, and Community Server are any measure. In my opinion, this kind of software needs to be dirt easy to dig in and create content. While tougher than dirt easy, Drupal so far has been relatively good. I also hated the crazy URLs the other products were using. Drives me batty to see crazy URLs. I know what some of you are saying, "Why does it even matter, if you just copy/paste?"