After almost 2 years of work on Intel iMac 20", I decided to upgrade it partially. Two month ago I increase memory from 2Gb to 3Gb (this is maximal amount, available for this model), and last Saturday I replaced hard disk in it (from 250Gb to 1Tb - Samsung Spinpoint with 32Mb of disk cache).
Upgrade took several hours - first, I cloned old disk to new one, with Carbon Copy Cloner (standard disk utility hadn't work well), and then I replace hard disk inside iMac - this step took about 40 min. - I took off LCD screen to get access to system board where hard disk is installed. And after assembling, all started to work without any problems and questions.
I'm very satisfied with selected hard disk - it's silent, and provide very good performance, comparing with old WD
April 27, 2009
April 19, 2009
Linux-related
Last friday I switched my work desktop computer from 32-bit Ubuntu to 64-bit Debian Lenny (to be in sync with other members of our development team). As I had second hard disk in my computer, migration was very easy - I restored all my personal configurations in half hour.
After work with Ubuntu, it was novel to find, that stable repository has very old packages (testing also not so fresh), so I already backported some of packages from unstable. But I don't plan to swithc to unstable completely.
P.S. I almost broke my brain, trying to figure out, why git cann't see repositories on the usb flash disk. After some googling, I found, that debian & ubuntu have different default mount options. I added the shortname=mixed to mount options, and all started to work fine.
After work with Ubuntu, it was novel to find, that stable repository has very old packages (testing also not so fresh), so I already backported some of packages from unstable. But I don't plan to swithc to unstable completely.
P.S. I almost broke my brain, trying to figure out, why git cann't see repositories on the usb flash disk. After some googling, I found, that debian & ubuntu have different default mount options. I added the shortname=mixed to mount options, and all started to work fine.
April 9, 2009
Back from vacation
I returned from vacation 2 days ago. Change of environment, allows to get rid of winter's fatigue. Besides of swimming, sunbathe on the beach, and taking a walk across the Puerto de La Cruz, I also spent a lot of time reading a set of papers, that I wanted to read long time ago, but hadn't time to read. This includes number of papers on Haskell (History of Haskell, Typeclassopedia, Tackling awkward the Squad, etc.), LLVM, Information Retrieval, and also half of "Programming Collective Intelligence" book.
P.S. and dozen of sci-fi books of different authors ;-)
P.P.S. when reading these papers, i often thinks about buying a e-ink based book reader, but 10" models (size, that allows me to read PDFs) still too expensive :-(
P.S. and dozen of sci-fi books of different authors ;-)
P.P.S. when reading these papers, i often thinks about buying a e-ink based book reader, but 10" models (size, that allows me to read PDFs) still too expensive :-(
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