My cool new box

June 18, 2008

I’ve recently upgraded my main box to this quad core 8G ram triple raid 0 hd bling beauty.
It features a 36cm side fan that pumps in heaps of air to keep temperatures to around 40C.
It’s suprisingly quiet too, as the video card and power supply are fanless.

the beast

But cool hardware is useless without an awesome operating system. My OS of choice is 64bit Debian GNU/Linux Lenny - it’s super easy to install, has the best package management out there [apt], and IMHO is the real developers’ Linux distribution [ok with the possible exception of Gentoo which is sooo awesome I must admit]. Windoze development I do in developer image vm’s powered by vmware and kvm. [Other posts on this blog will discuss developer vm's].

compiz rocks

The screenshot shows my compiz-fusion 3D OpenGL desktop, with digital tv playing on the left and a Martika video playing on the right face of the 5-workspace cube. Also note the sharks and dolphins swimming in the center of the cube.

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One Response to “My cool new box”

  1. admin on June 19th, 2008 12:14 am

    Ok! Where do I get me one of these babies!

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