What Makes a Great Developer?
May 4th, 2008 | Published in Programming
I agree with many of the points made by Dave Child in his article, “What Makes a Great Developer?“. Makes me wonder what other professions benefit from pessimism and laziness.
Faster booting with Startup Control Panel
March 25th, 2008 | Published in Software, Tech
Startup Control Panel (StartupCPL) is an awesome tool that lets you control exactly what programs load when you boot up your computer. Unless you just formatted, you probably have a bunch of crap loading that slows down your computer. Almost all of it can be turned off without breaking anything. Try it out and see how much time you can save.
A partial hardware upgrade
March 25th, 2008 | Published in Gaming, Tech | Comments
I just upgraded my 16-month-old AMD 5000+ to an AMD 6400+ and my NVIDIA 7950GT-KO to an NVIDIA 8800GT and my 3DMark06 score of 5,704 rose to 11,338 (almost double). More importantly, games will be running more smoothly! :) I’ve been waiting to do this upgrade before playing through HL2:EP2, BioShock, Crysis, and CoD4. Hopefully I can find some time for gaming this summer!
One reason I chose the MSI NX8800GT video card is that it comes overclocked and runs cooler than most of the regular 8800GTs. It accomplishes this by taking up 2 PCI slots with its giant heatsink. Unfortunately it’s also so long that I had to remove a hard drive from the opposite side of the case just to make it fit! I need to consolidate my drives anyway, so this will give me some motivation.
Now I just need to get my Steam account working so I can play some games. For some reason I got locked out of it yesterday and their password reset process isn’t working so well.
If you’re interested in buying my used AMD 5000+ or NVIDIA 7950GT-KO just send me an email.
I’m now hosted by VPSLink
March 24th, 2008 | Published in Linux, Products, Software, Tech
My site is now hosted on a VPS provided by VPSLink.com. It’s nice having the flexibility to run services like Subversion and Cacti as well as manage my own Apache configuration.
Their admin interface is really clean and fast, and they have tons of OSes to choose from. Check them out if you’re in the market for a host.
SCHED SXSW
March 8th, 2008 | Published in Products
Two guys created an awesome scheduling website for SXSW attendees to store quickly view panels and create a schedule. I wonder if they plan to expand it to support other conferences in the future (probably).
Here’s my schedule: http://sched.org/sxsw2008/garret