I’ve been working on a Presario SR2011WM. It’s a basic, low-end, single-core Celeron D system from 2006 or so. It can take up to 2 GB of RAM, runs Windows XP adequately, and has SATA ports, so you can put an SSD in it if you want. But don’t be fooled by the name–the Celeron [...]
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Notes on the Compaq Presario SR2011WM
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 12, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/05/notes-on-the-compaq-presario-sr2011wm/
ARM exec says: $100 tablets are the key to mass adoption
This week, ARM said what several people seem to have figured out: The key to mass adoption for smartphones and tablets is the $100 price point. It may happen this year. It’s not hard to find a decently fast $80 Android tablet, but you’ll have to put up with a sub-optimal screen to get it–800×480.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 16, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/arm-exec-says-100-tablets-are-the-key-to-mass-adoption/
My phone’s micro SD card made Windows Disk Manager hang, but I fixed it
The micro SD card in my Android phone (a Samsung Galaxy S 4G, if that helps) quit working suddenly, and I finally got around to investigating it on Friday. I ended up having to solve two problems to do it, though. Let’s start with Windows 7′s Disk Manager hanging at the message that says “Connecting [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 2, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/my-phones-micro-sd-card-made-windows-disk-manager-hang-but-i-fixed-it/
A minor (but vital) Apache performance tweak
My problems seem to have become more rare since I started blocking spambots and tuned PHP and Apache but last night my server ran out of memory again and started timing out. It turns out I still had a critical problem, but one that’s easy to fix with a relatively simple Perl script.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 27, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/01/a-minor-but-vital-apache-performance-tweak/
SSDs might be getting less interesting, but that’s not necessarily bad
Ars Technica has a story about SSD news coming out of CES. Basically, they’re predicting that the big news this year will be consolidation and lower prices. That may be bad news for someone who writes about SSDs for a living (I don’t), but good news for consumers.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 12, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/01/ssds-might-be-getting-less-interesting-but-thats-not-necessarily-bad/
SSD pricing gets media attention
It’s not news to my regular readers that SSD pricing continues to drop, but Computerworld noticed that this week. Everyday pricing is well around 90 cents per gigabyte now, and with some shopping around, it’s possible to do better than that.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 24, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/12/ssd-pricing-gets-media-attention/
Cutting Apache preforks seems to help small web servers
I’ve had a ton of downtime this week (this seems to be the busy time of year for my web server), but I think I traced the problem to a known issue.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 30, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/11/cutting-apache-preforks-seems-to-help-small-web-servers/
The Insignia Flex’s long-lost brothers
I had a chance to take a look at the Insignia Flex tablet, Best Buy’s $249 house-brand Android tablet. If you need a basic dual-core tablet that’s reasonably well-built, it’s not bad. I found it responsive and usable–there just wasn’t anything flashy about it. The two things I found I didn’t like were that the [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 24, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/11/the-insignia-flexs-long-lost-brothers/
Four simple steps to optimize WordPress
A couple of years ago, I stood up a WordPress server. I made no effort to tune it, let alone turbocharge it, which is a decision I later came to regret. If your site gets more than a few hundred hits per day, you need to tune it. If you want to get more than [...]
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/four-simple-steps-to-optimize-wordpress/