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All posts written in December, 2006

Video cards for non-gamers update

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 [...]

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No NCQ on older nvidia chipsets

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 [...]

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postgresql, mysql, replication

Postgresql 8.2 was released recently and a lot of people have been singing its praises for performance and robusteness.  However the one thing that leaves me choosing mysql is the integrated replication.  However I note that debian now has packages for slony and postgres 8.1 in etch (and perhaps 8.2 will make it in before [...]

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