Ok i know that unboxings are supposed for be for NEW hardware, but I’m poor and this thing is awesome so I did one.
I bought a refurbished Dell Latitude D420 for less than $300USD (it was actually $298.88 after Shipping)
So here is what I got for my ~$300:
Core Duo 1.2Ghz
1.5GB of ram,
60GB Harddrive
12.1″ widescreen
Internal 802.11 a/b/g/n
and the much hated Intel GMA 945 Graphics Chip (3d drivers are FUBAR)
So this is by far the best hardware I’ve ever owned and I was super excited about it so with any further adu… The unboxing
The package arrived yesterday but I was in Indy helping get Grandma’s house ready for her to come back from rehab (she’s doing better than anyone ever expeced). So here is the box
I love how the internet is proping up the custom box industry
The required suck up letter crammed in the plastic that the laptop is wrapped in (hey did you know I’m the greatest person in the world? neither did I until I read that peice of paper)
and here she is, wow what a beaut
this is the porny shot… Ooo look at those keys
Time to get a real OS on here… why do they insist on messing up perfectly good hardware by putting Windows on there
Installing from a live thumbdrive because there isnt an optical drive… which is a feature believe me
lets do the Fedora shuffle
Constantine I hope this install isn’t hellatious (I’m so funny it hurts… those I love)
duh maap kawan2, lagi ga mood celoteh banyak2 ni, langsung intinya aja ya,
dell emang ketayyyii beud dahh, mo upgrade RAM aja harus buka motherboard bagian bawah…. berikut screenshitnya :
dann ini memory RAM bawaan dari manufactory-nya
ok kawan2 cukup segitu aja postingan kali, ini, please have a great good night
Cisco starts 2010 with a bang as they have acquired Rohati Systems for an undisclosed transaction. Rohati will be a welcomed addition to the Nexus product line and adds considerable thought leadership to Cisco’s cloud computing initiative. In fact, once Rohati’s TNS technology is incorporated into a Nexus blade, it has the potential to not only jump-start Nexus sales within the datacenter but also to impact Cisco’s UCS strategy.
Interestingly enough, I have not seen a lot of hoopla regarding this acquisition; in fact most of the articles on the Internet simply mention that Rohati was acquired by Cisco. However, when I learned of this acquisition, I could not help but to smile and applaud the M&A teams at Cisco. Why?
Security remains one of the biggest challenges to cloud computing; public and private clouds. The worries include; internal threats, external threats, data transmissions, user privileges, compliance, and more. While firewalls and IDS/IDP systems are essential to securing the cloud, they don’t go far enough. That’s where Rohati’s innovation of the Layer-7 Access Control List attempts to fill the void.
A layer-7 ACL? The principal is quite ingenious as a Layer-7 ACL authorizes the entire transaction. Taken from Rohati’s literature:
TNS Layer-7 ACLs are based on the XML Access Control Markup Language (XACML) that allows them to be written in plain English with the added benefit of being readable. TNS is policy based, does not require agents, does not require reconfiguring applications (virtual or bare metal), does not require client changes, supports HA, and has centralized management capabilities including logging.
While I am unaware of Rohati’s success or failure as a stand-alone-company, Cisco has the market power to make their vision a reality. Remember, cloud computing requires combining networking, servers, applications, storage, security, and management. With this acquisition, Cisco is moving in the right direction and is signaling to their customers and competitors that they are serious about securing the cloud…your move HP.
So Dell is releasing the Streak – a 5-inch, touchscreen, Android-based mobile internet device, or MID, and Tinhte put video up on YouTube demoing it. It looks like a pretty standard device for the type of stuff it does: the Streak has a
800 x 480 resolution screen, it’s thought to run Android 2.0 and offer Bluetooth, 3G, a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, a microSD card slot and Wi-Fi. Sleek looking shell and easy-to-use features, even a mutant can operate it.
As you will be able to see in the embedded video below, Tinhte seems to be under the auspices of a way-geekier, less-super-powered version of the X-men, who love technology and have extra appendages. Watching the video below, I gotta say, I barely noticed the device, I was so busy counting fingers and toes. Seriously dude – if you’ve got extra digits – at least leave your socks on. Yeesh.
Il Senatore Lauro nella Giunta dell’Unione Industriali – napoli.com – il primo quotidiano online della città di Napoli
Giovanni Lettieri, Presidente dell’Unione Industriali di Napoli, ha comunicato a Salvatore Lauro che nel corso dell’Assemblea tenutasi il 18 dicembre u.s.
Salvatore Lauro, Presidente Lauro.it Spa, ha accolto con estremo piacere la notizia della elezione e ha dichiarato ‘Sono lusingato per l’incarico che mi viene affidato e mi ripropongo, con una assidua e costante presenza alle riunioni, di proseguire l’opera sino ad ora compiuta dall’Unione Industriali e di rafforzare l’impegno per la realizzazione dei programmi della vita associativa’
These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls:
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) Cut to Hold at Auriga.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) Started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.
Intrepid Potash (NYSE: IPI) Raised to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) Started as Overweight at Barclays.
LM Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) Raised to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) Started as Underweight at Morgan Stanley (issued late Monday).
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley (issued late Monday).
QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley (issued late Monday); Raised to Outperform at JMP Securities.
Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley (issued late Monday).
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) Cut to Outperform at RBC Capital.
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When I am feeling fidgety and lacking in outlets for my nervous energy, I start doing things to my Linux machine that tend to break it, then spend days rummaging through user forums in search of ways to unbreak it.
In this case, however, what seems to have broken my beloved macunaimachine was upgrading the kernel to Ubuntu Linux 2.6.17-generic.
With this upgrade, I have problems with adjusting the frequency of my CPU that I never had before.
Intense googling, vast, intuitive leaps of fuzzy poetry-major logic, and the filing of my very first Ubuntu bug report — I am kind of proud of that — have led me to the conclusion that there must some daemon, as yet unknown to me, that turns on 15 minutes or so after boot and takes command, issuing insane instructions to the cpufreq interface.
Result: random system overloads that come and go at seemingly unpredictable times (above).
As I was saying to my better half, this hypothetical misbehaving daemon is sort of like a body thetan in the cosmology of Scientology.
(I recently translated a Wikipedia gist of that cosmology into Portuguese, just for the hell of it, and the practice. Warning: If you obtain that knowledge without paying for it, you will contract pneumonia, according to the Church of Scientology.)
One thing I know for certain is that the kernel developers have now compiled support for various CPUs directly into the new kernel version, whereas previously they were loaded as modules. My CPU, for example –
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GH
stepping : 8
(and the same for processor 1, since the T2500 is dual-core) — used to run with a module called speedstep-centrino. Now, however, a subroutine in the acipd daemon, acpi-cpufreq, is supposed to take over those tasks.
(There is advice floating around in the forums for recreating and loading, or compiling in, a module for this deprecated driver, but to date I have not had the guts to try it.)
Here is what happens.
I boot up, alt-F2, gnome-terminal, sudo cpufreq-info on the command line, and I get the good news in eloquent techno-Brazilian:
Good news for modern Linux-monkeys
It says that my CPU is set up to run at 1.0 GHz, 1.33Ghz, 1.67GHz, or 2.0GHz.
(I don’t know what “stepping: 8″ in my cat proc/cpuinfo output means. Is it supposed to have 8 steps, or is it the four steps, multiplied by the two cores?)
A CPU governor called ondemand — the default, according to the Ubuntu and other Linux forums (this problem is not unique to Ubuntu, but seems to affect all flavors of the 2.6.x kernel) — is set up to take the foot off the gas when the workload is light, or put the pedal to the medal when the going gets tough.
These settings are native to the processor, and are read, I guess by acpid. (Or does hald have something to say about it?)
At this point, I am a happy camper.
Some time later, however, GKrellM System Monitor screams that both cores are maxed out, and the machine grows terribly sluggish — just like Macunaima, whose motto is “ai, que preguiça!” (Boy, do I feel lazy!
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Now I am terribly unhappy.
I start installing and removing the various third-party CPU governors — cpufreqd, powernowd, cpudyn, and (and what does this do, anyway?) Gnome Power Manager — one by one, to see if this makes a difference.
Not that I can tell.
Once I have used my E-meter (above) to “clear” the machine of CPU daemons (“body thetans”), as well as these i8k tools for Dell laptops — not much use, as far as I could tell, but maybe I should try them again after reading the manual more thoroughly — I start messing around with cpufrequtils and sysfsutils.
In some forums, they say this is all you really need to play nice with acpi-cpufreq.
(But then again, various people say various things.)
Sometimes it seems as though a good cpufreq-set -c 0 -g performance and cpufreq-set -c 1 -g performance, perhaps followed by a cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 2000000, rejiggers things.
Then again, at other times, those settings do not take, according to cpufreq-info.
And at other times, the system seems to reset itself, behaving nicely, even though cpufreq-info tells me, absurdly:
política atual: a frequência deveria estar entre 1000 MHz e 1000 MHz. O governor "performance" deve decidir qual velocidade usar dentro desse limite.
It says the performance governor is free to reset the frequency between the limits of 1.0 GHz and 1.0 GHz.
Some freedom.
Conclusion: cpufreq-info is about as reliable a source of information as Veja magazine or Dick Cheney and Condi Rice’s joint blog, “The Daily Mushroom Cloud.”
Result: I am more confused about who or what is setting this policy than a Brazilian gubernatorial administration. And I insist on being the bearded, cigar-chomping absolute dictator of my own man-machine interface.
So what now?
In the meantime, a quick reboot puts things back in working order for a while, but I really miss being able to run resource-intensive toys like OpenLife and such, and the kind of frenzied multitasking I am known for.
Now is the time, I guess, to really learn how to parse log files. There are these lines from dmesg, for example:
[ 0.651155] ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
[ 0.651348] processor LNXCPU:01: registered as cooling_device1
[ 0.651400] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
[ 0.674904] thermal LNXTHERM:01: registered as thermal_zone0 [ 0.674961] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (25 C)
Could that be part of my problem?
My CPU tends to run normally and safely between 50°C and 75°C.
(Also, ACPI is recognizing my Duo 2 processor as one processor [CPU01] here. Does it know there are two virtual processors available? Output from the system monitor does show the two cores acting independently.)
And later:
[ 1.063592] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 1.063766] cpuidle: using governor menu
But this is all Greek to me. So I guess this is the next thing to start googling up.
As Prof. Lehrer used to sing:
These are all the elements
That are known to Harvard
There may be many others
But they haven’t been discarvard …
It is very important for your character-formation to spend time trying to learn to do things you are very likely to suck at, I believe.
If Twitter were an Olympic sport, Dell would most definitely go home with the gold. They got in on it all early (2007!) and they got it right.
One of their profiles of particular note, @DellOutlet, enables followers to find out when discounted products are available at the company’s outlet store. They can then click a link to purchase the product. In June this year, Dell reported that they had achieved over $3m in US sales as a direct result of their Twitter-exclusive offers. Incredible stuff.
The offers have helped grow their follower base to over 700,000, almost within the top 50 most popular accounts on Twitter. Additionally, followers often re-tweet @DellOutlet messages which results in an even greater reach.
Many brands dismiss Twitter as a fad. Maybe it is. And there are shed-loads of brands spending lots of time and money on Twitter wthout reaping rewards. But there’s always a danger in genarlising. There is an audience out there on Twitter, it is therefore (at least, currently and for some brands) a relevant communications channel. Just how effective that channel proves to be depends on how you choose to use it.
Engadget have posted image and video of the new Dell Mini 5 Android Tablet.
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If Twitter were an Olympic sport, Dell would most definitely go home with the gold. They got in on it all early (2007!) and they got it right.