Tuesday, May 17, 2005

AnandTech: Processor Obfuscation and You: An Update on AMD and Intel CPUs

AnandTech: Processor Obfuscation and You: An Update on AMD and Intel CPUs
Phew! All these CPU's. Ever since I got hooked to working on laptops, I have barely looked at the various CPU's out their. Lately though, I have found myself limited with just two laptops, one a 750 Mhz dell system, and the other a Powerbook. What do I need more systems for? I'll be moving soon to a new apartment, getting my own broadband connection and hope to setup some systems as dev systems or test admin systems. I already have a windows server setup with all that I want on the laptop. I want a system that has Linux and another that has Solaris. Plus I want to setup the linux system as a router/dhcp/name server. Therefore I need two more systems.

Linux can be setup on a Mac mini, or any of those cheap $600 laptops from Dell. Solaris has less hardware support and wont run on the mini, so I'll have to be picky for that. Build a system from Frys or buy one of those two systems above? Maybe I should just start coding for the 750 Mhz laptop first.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...