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I was helping a friend with recommendations for an LCD monitor to be used for a computer but also to phase out the television. I found the sweetspot to be the 22″ widescreen LCD for around $300.
Here are the 3 I proposed:

Acer AL2216WBD – @newegg, @anandtech
Acer AL2223WD – @newegg
BenQ FP222WH – @newegg
Comparison

Managed to catch the commit here. Looks good enough to try on a production system in the not too distant future.

AnandTech has a great review of the state of video cards for the holiday season but what most interested me was his page on Ultra Budget GPUs. His conclusions were much the same as mine. At the cheapest end try to get a X1300 which should cost just over $50 [...]

So I upgraded a server to 2.6.18 as it had recently entered debian etch. There are some things I already like but one thing that I was hoping to gain, NCQ on the RAID-1 SATA drives, was not to be. Apparently this is because the sata_nv driver does not support NCQ nor is [...]

On a whim I decided to see how much it would cost to get a dirt-cheap 64-bit system. I have a need for some web servers that do not need to be blazing fast and so will probably be made from parts purchased on ebay. But the temptation to have the cheapest, slowest [...]

I finally updated the ubuntu kernels on my laptop and checked in on the ipw2200 and ieee80211 driver projects. The ipw2200 driver has a new stable release at version 1.2.0 and the ieee80211 driver is up to version 1.2.15.  In the ipw2200 makefile I made sure that the MONITOR, RADIOTAP, and PROMISCUOUS options were [...]

I’m planning on building a new pc in the next month or so. I usually build a budget box (think $500) to last for 2 years or so. A little while back I decided to see what the graphics card market was like. It’s problematic because most reviews are geared toward gamers [...]

So it remains to be seen what will be the best bang for the buck between the AMD X2 and the Intel Core 2 Duo. If a person was looking to buy a completely new system now would be a good time to wait for the Core 2 Duo to be readily available. [...]

SuperMicro AS-1020P-TB 1U + 2x Opteron 265 for less than $1750 (not including disks and ram). That’s a great deal for a dual-proc dual-core system. Of course I’d probably spend the $200 for the TRB model with dual redundant power supplies.  Maybe I just haven’t done the research but I don’t think Intel [...]

Seems like my week to talk about purchasing from companies that I usually don’t like or recommend. But I have been increasingly asked about laptops, as laptop purchases are way up. As laptops have become relatively cheap and powerful enough to the common set of computing tasks many people have ditched their desktop [...]

Well, first of all I wouldn’t because so many price drops are right around the corner. But the interesting thing is that if I had to build a computer, for myself or someone with similar needs, I would actually build it with an Intel CPU. That’s significant because I’ve used AMD for all [...]

So after disabling acpi on an athlon 64 x2 / nforce 4 system by passing acpi=off to the kernel at boot time in order to improve system stability I got hit with a clock running too fast issue (gaining about 400 seconds every hour). Apparently this has to do with the tsc timer. [...]

I’ve been needing a new digital camera for a while and have been checking into the market every now and then. So the camera that has some appeal to me is the Canon PowerShow A630 which has a retail price of $300 (about as much as I’d want to pay for a camera). [...]