PJ Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 I've reallocated the "send a certain person to college/help buy a car fund" into the "P.J. needs a new computer fund". Geez, the prices are ridiculously low compared to when I built my last box. Since I am planning on expanding Candle, I figured I would buy a new development machine, so I could have dev box, test box, staging server, and finally production environment. This is scary, pretty soon my bedroom is going to resemble a full IT development environment. Oh, well. Incidentally, last time I built a machine, I smoked the CPU. It was pretty cool, almost started a fire. Wish me luck! Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 I've reallocated the "send a certain person to college/help buy a car fund" into the "P.J. needs a new computer fund". Geez, the prices are ridiculously low compared to when I built my last box. Since I am planning on expanding Candle, I figured I would buy a new development machine, so I could have dev box, test box, staging server, and finally production environment. This is scary, pretty soon my bedroom is going to resemble a full IT development environment. Oh, well. Incidentally, last time I built a machine, I smoked the CPU. It was pretty cool, almost started a fire. Wish me luck! PJYou are scaring me.What did THAT mean in plain English ??? I wouldn't be a good buy info source.. I'm gullible about computers, providing it LOOKS good :-) Or the sales gal does... Of course, I was juuust kidding about the latter Link to comment
kkimm Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 I've reallocated the "send a certain person to college/help buy a car fund" into the "P.J. needs a new computer fund". Geez, the prices are ridiculously low compared to when I built my last box. Since I am planning on expanding Candle, I figured I would buy a new development machine, so I could have dev box, test box, staging server, and finally production environment. This is scary, pretty soon my bedroom is going to resemble a full IT development environment. Oh, well. Incidentally, last time I built a machine, I smoked the CPU. It was pretty cool, almost started a fire. Wish me luck! PJ. good to see you are in a good spirit, here is a website I recommend: http://www.pricewatch.com Link to comment
wgraffiks Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 I happen to have a spare large fire extinguisher in my bedroom. If you're interested... P.J. instructions: 1. Pull pin on extinguisher.2. Plug in Personnal Computing device3. Apply power to Personnal Computing device4. Lift extinguisher by handle, pointing horn towards PC5. Prepare to extinguish flames. I'm glad you are finding creative and constructive things to do now, but don't forget personal happiness along with your hobbies. Both are important.Bill Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 I happen to have a spare large fire extinguisher in my bedroom. If you're interested... P.J. instructions: 1. Pull pin on extinguisher.2. Plug in Personnal Computing device3. Apply power to Personnal Computing device4. Lift extinguisher by handle, pointing horn towards PC5. Prepare to extinguish flames. I'm glad you are finding creative and constructive things to do now, but don't forget personal happiness along with your hobbies. Both are important.BillThat extinguisher wouldn't happen to run Win98 would it? If so, may I suggest just a bucket of water for PJ to have nearby? I agree with Bill on his last statement. Link to comment
Guest R2D2 Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 I've reallocated the "send a certain person to college/help buy a car fund" into the "P.J. needs a new computer fund". Geez, the prices are ridiculously low compared to when I built my last box. Since I am planning on expanding Candle, I figured I would buy a new development machine, so I could have dev box, test box, staging server, and finally production environment. This is scary, pretty soon my bedroom is going to resemble a full IT development environment. Oh, well. Incidentally, last time I built a machine, I smoked the CPU. It was pretty cool, almost started a fire. Wish me luck! PJ!!! I know where you can get a great hands on computer.......Match.com, china section. Some are programmed in Cantonese!!!!! Link to comment
skibum Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 DELL , please to help my stock go up. How did you ruin the microprocessor? Hope you did not try to change it with the power on. Also, it is very important to use the static ground eventhough a large percent of the real estate on the chip may be devoted to static protection. Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 DELL , please to help my stock go up. How did you ruin the microprocessor? Hope you did not try to change it with the power on.Hey ! if my HP stock is going south, your Dell stock is going south too !That's fair dammit ! " Also, it is very important to use the static ground eventhough a large percent of the real estate on the chip may be devoted to static protection." <---- don't you kids love when those tekkie guys are talking dirty like this??? WTF??? Translation? Neeeever mind.. I'll stick to my goood looking computer :-) Link to comment
AZwolfman Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 Western Digital 120 GB Hard Drive on sale at Fry's Electonics (8MB cache, 7200 rpm) for $200 less instore discount of $50 and mail-in rebate of $60 = final price of $90. Link to comment
Lurker Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Since I am planning on expanding Candle, I figured I would buy a new development machine, so I could have dev box, test box, staging server, and finally production environment. Please post your system configuration here. Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Since I am planning on expanding Candle, I figured I would buy a new development machine, so I could have dev box, test box, staging server, and finally production environment. Please post your system configuration here.great.. I landed in " computerfreakland" LOL You go guys... knock yourself out ! Link to comment
PJ Posted February 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Hehe ... okay pull back the curtains, here is Candle's inner workings. At present: Development environment = CPU: 1 GHz Athlon (constructed myself)OS: W2K ProWeb server: iPlanetSoftware: PHP, mySQL, Java, JSP Staging server = CPU: PII 233OS: Red Hat Linux 8.0Web server: Apache 2.xSoftware: PHP, mySQL, Java, JSP Production = CPU: Who knows?OS: Linux (not sure what flavor)Web server: Apache 2.xSoftware: PHP, mySQL, Java, JSP The CRAZIEST and stupidest thing I did while creating Candle was coding in a Windows environment, and then migrating to a Linux production environment. The migration process from Windows to Linux sucked. Period. Anyone who is familiar with IT would tell you that is a no-no. I would never recommend something like that in industry, nor would I allow my developers to code in a different environment than production. Welll ... I guess nobody can fire me for poor tech decisions on Candle. Link to comment
PJ Posted February 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Okay .. the big question... how did I fry a CPU? Simple. I bought a 1 GHz Athlon processor and tried to run it WITHOUT HEATSINK AND FAN. It literally smoked and sparked. Bad idea. Not recommended. Link to comment
owenkrout Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 P.J., Your experience made me laugh as it brought back memories. My father is a retired electronics engineer and I do have one of my degrees in digital electronics. Although it is so old that Z-80s where the latest greatest thing at that time and since then I got off into the manufacturing engineering field. His hobby now is playing with the latest thing for his multiple computers. We even built him a room in the basement after he overflowed the bedroom. The last time we were working together building up a system we had a similar happenstance. In our case the power supply. His degree is in communication electronics and he has worked on some systems carrying real power, so one of his standard tests is the "smoke test". The first thing you do is plug it in, with your left hand behind your back so if you get bit it won't go through your heart, and look for smoke. Us working together is a show anyway. My youngest brother says the problem is that we both have to be in charge. We were building a simple home computer for my brother in law up from scratch and when we got done we were ready to try it out. Me: OK, plug it in. (He plugs it in) Me: Smoke Him: What? (He is just about deaf from years in a noisy industrial environment) Me: Smoke! Him: Huh? Me: Smoke! Smoke! Unplug the damn thing! Him: Smoke! Unplug it! I grab the plug and yank it out. Him: You were supposed to be watching for smoke. Why didn't you say anything? Me: I did!! Him: The hell you did! Me: You sure that power supply was big enough for this system? Him: Me? What were you doing? I thought you checked it? It was just one I had laying around from an old system. The conversation went downhill from there. Finally my mother yelled down the steps for "You boys stop fighting down there!" Actually turned out that it was one that had gone bad earlier and that he had been meaning to try and fix. Link to comment
Mick Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 In regards to this thread, all I gotta say is: Huh??????? Actually, I just bought a new lap top after shopping for one for almost two years over here in China. All I know so far is the following: It a Toshiba Satellitee It works This keyboard is really sensitive That, my friends, is the extent of my knowledgeee. Therefore I repeat, Huh?????? Link to comment
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