Posted on August 21, 2006
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A couple of week ago, I want to maximize my old system. My old Leprechaun wasn’t a wrecked, the only thing that’s not working in there was the hard drive. I was planning to change the hard drive with a new one and use it to test Ubuntu.
But I tend to change my mind rapidly. Last week after days of researching the perfect specification for my needs, I decided to build a new PC, rather than polishing the old one. With long discussions with my best friend Chris, I bought this new system. : AMD64 3200+ with 1 GB of DDR RAM, integrated graphic card and 80GB hard drive.
This specification is perfect for my purpose. After working at CHIP a year ago, I barely use my desktop PC at home. I gave my brother the one PC (I called it the amusement PC :) that I had and stuck with my old Leprechaun, but actually, I barely touched it. I’ve been busy using my dad’s laptop for my needs, cause face it, laptop’s are more flexible.
However, after some time, I missed using a desktop. I used Linux in a daily basis on my job, but as a server system. I want to use Linux for fun just like old times. After testing Ubuntu, I believe that Linux can be now be fully used as a desktop system just like Windows and Mac.
So I’m guessing that I do not need a state-of-the-art hardware, I even use an integrated graphic card. My emphasis is on memory; 1GB of memory seems more than adequate for Linux, especially on Ubuntu. 80GB of hard drive? Well I can live with a less capacity, but that’s the minimum specification out there in the market.
Posted on August 15, 2006
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I finally finished my research (can I called it a research?) on how to install Ubuntu on VMWare. Yeah yeah yeah… I know that this wasn’t a new stuff anymore, but hey! I like to try stuffs! Though someone has already done it and others have written about it too. I really like to write it again, no no, I am not trying to reinventing the wheel or retell the world that the Berlin Wall has collapse or something. I just want to share my side of the story on how to install Ubuntu on VMware under Windows. Its not a diggable material ladies and gentlemen. This is only for personal documentation, but if you find this useful, then maybe I can die happy (at least one person think this is useful :D )
Okay first the tools:
Posted on August 9, 2006
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As an online editor, sometimes when I dont have many tasks to do, I can tend to some press conferences. Today, luckily I went to the one of the important conference this month, the launch of Intel Core 2 Duo in Indonesia.
After the worldwide announcement on July 27, today Intel launches their revolutionary processor, the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo here in Indonesia. This brave innovation is consider as Intels technology breakthrough in core computing since they released Pentium Processor back in 1993. This Intel® Core™ 2 Duo is claim by Intel to be 40% faster in performance and 40% more efficient in terms of energy conservation, thats the breakthrough.
To achieve the goal, Intel had to redesign its core architecture. This 3rd generation dual core processor (the first was Intel Pentium D and the second was Intel Core Duo) has 291 millions transistor each sizing to 65nm.
With this neatly technology, they released a sets of processor family (ten on of them to be exact, detailed on the table below) and a series of chipsets to supports the chips, starting from Intel 975X, Intel 965 and Intel Mobile 945 Express.