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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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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

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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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