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Great American Beer Festival Next week: The Great American Beer Festival. I just got an e-mail saying they've accepted me as a volunteer on the Brew Crew. Should be a good time. Posted in General at Sep 18 2003, 10:31:05 PM MDT Add a Comment

New Desktop? While I'm seriously thinking about a new PowerBook, the more important item on the agenda is refreshing my desktop. It's a P4 1.5 GHz (1 MB RAM) Dell Dimension 8100. I like Windows XP and I love writing Java in it - moreso than any other OS (really!). So I owe it to myself to speed things up a bit on my primary development box. So I went searching on eBay and found I can get a much better machine (almost twice as fast) for only $800. Do you think that's a good deal? I sure do... Posted in General at Sep 18 2003, 08:40:51 PM MDT 1 Comment

Test driving the new PowerBooks I called my local Apple Store today to see if they had any new PowerBooks in. They did (though they've sold out of their 15" with combo/super drives for the day), and now I'm here test-driving the 17" with 1.33 Mhz and 512 MB RAM. It wouldn't be right if I didn't compare this machine against these performance numbers. So here goes:

  • Opening Eclipse (3.0 M2): 10 seconds
  • Opening Photoshop (7.0.1): 8 seconds
  • Running "ant rebuild" on Roller (0.9.7.3): 32 seconds (ooh, this actually beats the 2 GHz machine I had at Comcast, by 4 seconds).
  • Running "ant clean package-web" on AppFuse (0.9.1): 21 seconds (3 seconds slower than the 2 GHz Pentium)

I'm not as disappointed as I thought I'd be. Good thing I left my wallet in the car! Posted in Mac OS X at Sep 18 2003, 06:17:43 PM MDT 2 Comments