Sadly, the sixteen boot penguins get cut off because the Nvidia GPU installed doesn’t have kernel mode setting.
Hexadecatuple core probably won’t enter the vernacular but nothing else runs Ubuntu 9.10 quite like sixteen cores of sweet, sweet, Opteron.
I put this hardware together as a VM platform for running large numbers of KVM systems. It’s 32GB [...]
There’s lots of reasons to avoid these seemingly tempting low-power graphics chips. Adam’s post sums it up for Linux. While it’s now possible to get something working, and I have, it was slower than a well tuned VESA driver at 2D drawing operations, and only barely faster at anything else. It won’t work moving forward, [...]
When I started using Linux in 2003, ACPI was a convoluted mess caused by plague of power management: Windows XP. Microsoft did a number of things that led to broken ACPI implementations (the most obvious and annoying was implementing a DSDT compiler that built broken tables). Of course it all worked mostly if you used [...]
Tired of lugging my 40 pound desktop between cities, I’ve replaced it with the slightly less powerful but much more portable MacBook Pro. OS X didn’t last very long.
A few things to be aware of with Apple’s Intel-based hardware. Most of it (all currently shipping) comes with the capability of loading the machine in either [...]