Dev box upgrading
Well, since it looks like I’m working from home starting in 2 weeks time I am going to need to replace Whistler and Avoriaz because a) they are noisy, b) they are old and slow, c) they take up to much room and d) they are noisy. I don’t need much umph, I just need small, quiet and 2 SATA (which I have). I am thinking an Asus T3-P5G965 S775 barebones with an Intel E6320 and some CorsairTwinX XMS2 DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM. Other than ordering from Scan being a bad idea, anyone have any thoughts?
Oh, regards external hard drives, I got a Freecom USB/FW400 one, its good. No idea whats in it though, I CBA.
Update: Just ordered one box from Microdirect. As above but with OCZ RAM.
Comments
Comment from al_bullit
Time: June 26, 2007, 12:21 am
Yes, but why would I want to spend over twice as much? If not three times more.
Comment from korpora
Time: June 26, 2007, 7:57 am
order from microdirect 
or rather, i just walk down the road and pick stuff up…
Comment from welikegoats
Time: June 26, 2007, 9:10 am
Because they are small and quiet, which appeared to be your requirements.
Comment from icklemichael
Time: June 26, 2007, 2:12 pm
You may have said this before, but I have missed it if you have it. What is your new job?
Comment from al_bullit
Time: June 26, 2007, 4:44 pm
Contracting. First job is for the people running the travel sites Orient Express bought from Open World. I can’t leave the JServ joys behind! ARGH!
Comment from icklemichael
Time: June 26, 2007, 5:10 pm
Do you still have my beautiful upgrade from JServ to Jetty bash script?
Why did this never get run?
Comment from al_bullit
Time: June 26, 2007, 5:51 pm
We were still on Java 1.3 and JServ because 1.4 had “issues” with SMP on older glibc installations, like what we had with Slackware 8.0. I suppose now its all Gentoo and modern glibc we could switch to 1.4 and Jetty, but I suspect it isn’t worth it.
Comment from welikegoats
Time: June 26, 2007, 12:01 am
Shuttle.