Well, after fighting with my motherboard, ram, power supply and bios for two long weeks, I finally determined that the problem was, in fact, the CPU itself. I had a defective AMD Athlon 4400+ X2. This being my first AMD box, I had no spare to swap in its place to verify it [...]
When it comes to my efforts to build an AMD based system, I’m pretty much back where I started.
Here’s what I can reliably reproduce on my A8N-SLI:
Using a stick of ancient DDR ram (from a ca. 2003 box) IF I clear CMOS and cold-boot, bypassing bios setup (bios defaults loaded, F1 to continue), I can [...]
Finally giving up on my video upgrade woes, I decided that they only way to drive my three flat panels is a new video card that uses the PCIx slot format. Alas, this means a new motherboard. New motherboard means new CPU/RAM/Power Supply, and at that point, you’re only a couple bucks from [...]
Configuring Xinerama in Ubuntu is straightforward and only has two real steps (if you’re lucky). The first is to set up your video boards so they are identified by X11. Then you simply need to tell X11 how your screens are aranged and then that you want them to be one large [...]
As I read about Port Knocking and whether or not it qualifies as security through obscurity, it strikes me that not only is Port Knocking useless, it’s wrong minded as well. It fails to solve the very problem it purports to address, and creates the illusion of greater security. I believe this is [...]
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