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FireFox 3 rc1

May 28th, 2008

Have been testing the Firefox 3 Beta till rc1 for a month now. The performance is quite good. I can’t wait to check the release version soon and have all my favourite plug-ins/add-ons to test with.

Now I am making this post from my CentOS 5.0 Gnome Desktop with the Linux version of Firefox 3 rc1. Seems like looks the same like it runs on my Windows XP and Mac OSX Leopard.

Share your experience with us ;)

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Web Server, 1 or 2 Quad Core Xeon?

May 28th, 2008

Still deciding on what specs to go for the web server since pricing coming down a lot. Should I choose the single Intel Xeon Quad Core 5420 or 2 of the same processors? It seems that I cannot find any information in any search engine.

I have been thinking of I may not need to go for 2 x Quad Core, there are few reasons

  • High CPU Loading seems like not really happened due to the site we served on this server mostly will be private
  • Even I have super power 2 x Quad Core but can the 100mbps LAN able to be fully utilized?
  • With the money saving for the 2nd processor, I may able to get a Mac Mini as for backup

If anyone got some good suggetion then please let me know.

The other specs for this Dell PowerEdge 1950 will be

  • 4GB (2 x 2GB) memory
  • 2 x 300GB SAS 15K rpm HDD
  • Dual Gigabit Ethernet
  • Redundant Power Supply

Cheers

boyd Hardware , , , ,

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)

May 28th, 2008

Just installed the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (316MB download). Seems like nothing different other than showing SP3 in the system properties ;) I did installed the SP3 MUI pack (for Multi Language) which is about 9MB since I am using Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese language.

I saw some blog saying that may have problem of computer keep restarting if you are using AMD processor, BUT I am using my good old AMD X2 4400 cpu without any problem for the first few boots.

I will keep testing it right now and will blog here if any problem found.

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Fluid – An App For Mac

May 16th, 2008

Fluid

Came across this piece of freeware for Mac OS, such a nice and smart application. With Fluid, you can specified the web app to become an app in Mac OS.

A more simple explanation is, you start this application, you then put in the URL (internet address / domain name) of the web app, for example http://www.gmail.com, and then you put in the name, let say, GMAIL. Then you choose where you want it to create the application, for example save it on the DESKTOP (the OS desktop folder) and you choose the ICON file in PNG/GIF/JPG or ask to use the FAVICON of the site and click OK. Within seconds, a new application will be created and you just run the GMAIL like an application in the Mac.

The advantages to create web app in this way are

1) You make the daily use web app/web site to be open easily, no need to type the same address everytime you use your Safari/Firefox

2) You can have different apps running the same time with different credential, for example I am using GMAIL and Google Adsense in different account but now I can open them at the same time by creating them as applications using Fluid

Oh yes, you may say I can do this by just clicking on the bookmark and just using different browser, but I can see that when web apps getting more popular, then Fluid definitely will be a smart way to keep yourself organized, especially for me ;) lol

check it out yourself at http://fluidapp.com/

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