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Fri, 24 Dec 2010

3:43 PM - (no subject)

I just broke down and bought some parts to update one of my servers.  It's one of the oldest systems here and yet I do most of the compiling for MIdnightBSD on it .

Going from a Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13Ghz) to AMD Athlon II X4 3.0Ghz.  Considering this is my magus, tinderbox and MySQL server, it's going to be a real bump up.   

Magus is the build software for MidnightBSD packages.  It takes about 2.5 days to do a run right now on this machine.  This includes downloading everything and compiling.  I can run it in parallel and some ports now support parallel make operations too.  Four cores actually make a difference here.  

It amazes me how expensive processors are right now.  Intel had some insane prices.  They want $120 for a dual core chip (core i3).  Considering I just bought a quad core for $99, I don't think that makes sense. I realize AMD chips aren't as fast as Intel, but it's not that different.  A socket 775 Q8300 was like $150 and that's old technology and FSB memory access.  No thank you.  

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8:46 PM - (no subject)

Egg nog.  Check.

Upgrade mysql while drinking.  Check. MySQL 5.5 is fast.    

Caryn bought me Fruit Fucker for chistmas.  (@see penny arcade)  Check.

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