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Sandy Bridge Replacement

Posted on April 8, 2011 by tim

Today, we [oldest and I] replaced the ASUS P867 motherboard with the brand-new replacement from Newegg.com. The box is labeled “P8P67 Pro New B3 Revision Rev 3.0”. The replacement went very nicely – lots of cables [it is a motherboard, … Continue reading →

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Sandy Bridge Assembly

Posted on February 5, 2011 by tim

The family assembled the core i5 machine today. The oldest actually connected the last piece (the Sata cable to the 1TB drive, after the OS was installed). Windows 7 experience numbers (out of 7.9): CPU: 7.5, Memory: 7.9, Graphics: 7.5/7.5, … Continue reading →

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Sandy Bridge Recall Part 2

Posted on February 2, 2011 by tim

After learning the problem with the chips resides in the SataII connectors, I felt lucky. I had already ordered a SataIII SSD and a SataIII HDD, so I was already planning on using the SataIII connectors. Plus, by getting the … Continue reading →

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Sandy Bridge P67 Recall

Posted on January 31, 2011 by tim

Today, Intel announced a complete recall of all the P67/H67 chipsets manufactured to date. My motherboard is in shipping from Newegg today. Awesome.

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Core i5 Sandy Bridge Build

Posted on January 24, 2011 by tim

Impulsively, I got on the Sandy Bridge bandwagon less than 30 days after release. The motherboard reviews were “not good” (and one had been pulled after 10 days on the market). But, after convincing myself that it was going to … Continue reading →

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Lot Area Calculator

Posted on July 23, 2010 by tim

Just finished a long-running development project. This one can calculate the area of an irregular polygon, and lets you set the distance and angles of the polygon’s segments by dragging them around. I’m pressing it into service as a real … Continue reading →

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Core i7 CPU update

Posted on July 21, 2010 by tim

Intel started shipping the Core i7-970 3.2GHz this month (for ~$600). This after shipping the Core i7-980X (for ~$1,000). Both are Gulftown, 6-core, 130W LGA 1366 socket chips. I’m very happy with my 920 – I feel no need to … Continue reading →

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Sourceforge Secret Share in Java

Posted on April 17, 2010 by tim

Last week I started my first open-source project at Sourceforge: secretsharejava. It was a small, stand-alone project that I wrote months ago, and just now got around to uploading. The command-line interface is done; soon I’ll be creating the Swing/Applet … Continue reading →

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Programming Languages Vary in Power

Posted on March 20, 2010 by tim

The title is a “controversial” quote from the book Hackers and Painters. The book’s author calls it controversial; I call it blindingly obvious but still not seen by certain people. That book serves as an example that, even though programming … Continue reading →

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Commoditization of Intelligence

Posted on December 21, 2009 by tim

I just ran into the phrase “commoditization of intelligence” from Accelerando (Singularity). In the book’s context it is scary enough. But it is truly scary when it manifests itself today. Like when knowledge workers are treated like replaceable cogs in … Continue reading →

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