- Understanding Thailand Politics
- Ray Ozzie: by Steven Levy
- Kitchen Installed
- A Hole in the Wall
- Bathroom: Ready for Rendering
- Private Angus Hodge
- Hodge Family History Update
- Kitchen Destruction
- “It’s Not a Sad Time”
- Field Marshal Melchett
- A Pragmatic Proposal: ISP Filters
- Edna Dutschke
- Steve Ballmer at CEDA 7th November 2008
- Liam and and I at Barcamp Sydney 4
- Bathroom Renovation: The Destruction
- USofA… just when I about to love you again
- Microformat hCard
- Tech support. Yes, this is so close to reality
- Adobe InDesign CS4 Oddity
- Live Mesh: MacOS, Windows Mobile
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Planning Field Marshall Melchett
Monday, June 9th, 2008General Melchett is my current PC ride of choice.
Self-build, and crafted and greatly loved: it is a beautiful workstation. Quiet, too.
There have been four significant changes from the initial build: Q9300 processor, 8Gb of DDR2 RAM, NVidia 8800GT video card and most recently a Western Digital Velociraptor 300Gb 10,000 RPM boot/C: drive.
The next leaps are [...]
General Melchett goes 45nm
Monday, April 21st, 2008Time to save some electrons. On yet another whim, I purchased a new Intel Q9300 processor for General Melchett, replacing the venerable Q6600.
The CPU temperature seems to have dropped by 9degC, whilst the performance (12Gb video encode using Expression Encoder) is within a margin of error the same. The Q9300 is 4% faster. I think [...]
Project General Melchett. Stage 1.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Project General Melchett is my own, roll your own, home built Intel Core 2 Quad box for home.
Ordered yesterday, and delivered in pieces yesterday. Started the build at 10.30am and completed major parts at 1.00pm.
A big part of the decision process was should I install a new 45nm Quad Core Extreme. The current price difference [...]
Moore’s Law, More Horses, Less Chaff
Saturday, January 27th, 2007A major change in the fabrication process, changing a 40+ year old process to make transitors that are 45 nano-meters large/small. At this level, atoms become significant.
Scoble has released a new video detailing the new 45nm process at Intel. What does this mean? Two things: Moore's Law still applies, and there are going to be [...]
