PostHeaderIcon Western Digital Caviar Green hard drive

 

Let's face it: without the hardware, we don't have any reason for software. Regardless the OS, we still need the hard parts to run it with (or on).

Also, you know as well as I do how cool it is to come home with (or have waiting on your porch via courier) a shiny piece of computer go-fast. New motherboard, new video card, maybe some functional bling for your case, doesn't matter. It's universal Geek. However, we here in Open-Sourceville have an added requirement: It must do its job substantially the same way on a UNIX-based system as it does on that other OS.

Even the lowly hard drive.

Last Updated (Sunday, 11 July 2010 16:39)

 

PostHeaderIcon Ultra ULT-31502 1000VA/600 watt Uninterruptible Power Supply

 

Everyone needs some sort of power protection. Everyone. The electrical supply from the wall outlet to which you have your computer plugged in is a lot like tap water: You know what it is, but if you really knew what was in it you probably wouldn't want to use it any more. Fact is, household electrical systems are stable enough to not cause a fire and that's about it. The tiniest fluctuations mess with a computer, and over time performance can degrade, possibly taking a few years off the useful life of the hardware...and that's the best-case scenario. Brown-outs, voltage sags...as far as a computer is concerned, the electrical supply is about as stable as Rosie O'Donnell.

Last Updated (Sunday, 11 July 2010 16:38)

 

PostHeaderIcon PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE

It's fast, it's furious, it's...running KDE4? Well, guess that means that KDE4 is officially considered stable, because Texstar wouldn't have any of it if it wasn't.

Last Updated (Sunday, 11 July 2010 16:37)

 
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