Hardware
I now have a few docking station for my SATA drives that's hooked on to USB 3.0 PCI Express cards. I also have a laptop with 2 USB 3.0 ports. The straight up transfer speed is good, 86 mbps versus 20 mbps, my virtual PC now runs very well with USB drives. However, using those devices for file storage has not been a very good experience so far. With the old USB 2.0 drives, I could create multiple "move" instances between drives. The speed slows down, but I could initial some moves and leave the computer...
2 months ago I learned that there is going to be a Windows Azure Boot Camp, free, 2-day, code-intensive. The only catch at the time for me was that I didn't have a laptop, a requirement for this camp. Thanks for my beautiful and tolerant wife, we provisioned and I got my dream machine. Waited and shopped for a long time to get a reasonable price, but I got the following spec: 8GB ram Necessary for me to run my virtual environments i-5 4-Core CPU Want 4-core for virtual environments, but not a fan...
This post saved my life: http://blogs.technet.com/b/
I bought this video card to work with Windows 7. It works perfectly; couldn't be happier. The problem starts when I had to install XP for some legacy application. I tried installing different versions of XP (home, professional, media center), and each one hangs at the XP startup screen. Workaround: I installed XP with the onboard video card first, change the screen resolution, then switch in the new video card, and voila
Some of you have been seeing some pictures of me putting heat sinks into 2 old computers to reduce noise provide adequate cooling for the system to run 24/7 I want to blog this for several reasons: To keep track of what I've been doing To perhaps get some suggestions of any better way of doing it. The 3 computers I'm working with have the following specs: P-4 1.6 GHz, 1.5 GB PC-133 SDRAM, 120 GB IDE P-4 2.6 GHz, 2 GB PC-2700 DDR, 320 GB IDE, 800 GB RAID-0 SATA P-4 2.8 GHz, 2 GB PC-3200 DDR, 400 GB...
Kind of make me regret setting up a ExpressCard/eSATA virtual environment, but this is really cool! http://www.everythingusb.co