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Gaming PC upgrade for $500

November 14, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Firing Squad has a break-down of a $500 gaming PC upgrade. Roughly the components are as follows:

ComponentSuggestionPriceSupplierNotes
GPUNVidia GeForce 8800 GT$249.99ZipzoomflyAlternatives: Radeon X1950 Pro
CPUAthlon 64 X2 4000+$75.90ZipzoomflyNewegg has same price for X2 4000+ and X2 4800+, $99.99. Alternative: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
MotherboardGigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H$79.99NeweggAMD-690 chipset, micro-ATX. Alternative: MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (ATX).
MemoryOCZ PC2-6400 Paltinum Revision 2 Dual Channel$79.99Newegg$35 mail-in rebate=$44.99

Since this is an upgrade article, the writers have assumed you already have a case, hard drive, optical drive, mouse, keyboard, monitor and OS.

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Setting up MXP to run under Linux

November 13, 2007 By 4 Comments

Recently our systems administrator asked me if it was possible to run MXP under Linux. “I don’t think there is a client of Progress for Linux, at least not graphical”, was my first response. But I got intrigued, and started digging (or rather, googling) around. And it is possible.

I’ll describe what I did under Ubuntu 7.10 with Progress 10.0B, and MXP 8.1E. The steps should be very similar for other Linux flavors, or later versions of Progress and MXP.

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Automation Adventures upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1

November 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment

There was a small outage today as I was upgrading various parts of the website to WordPress 2.3.1. It actually took a lot longer than expected, caused in part by the refusal of GoDaddy to accept two FTP connections from the same IP address. Plus, when I came back after transferring the new version, there was an error box waiting for me, asking me if I wanted to overwrite some of the files. Oops.

Everything seems to be working, though. Please leave a comment if you find something that is broken.

UPDATE I also updated the theme a bit, hope you like the new layout!

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