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20030807 Thursday August 07, 2003

What a 3 GHz Processor will do for you I finally got around to installing Java, Ant and Tomcat today, so here's some compilation numbers for you (from the new laptop):

  • Running "ant clean package-web" on AppFuse: 12 seconds (vs. 2GHz/512MB Desktop: 18 seconds)
  • Running "ant rebuild" on Roller: 24 seconds (vs. 2GHz/512MB Desktop: 36 seconds)

Now those are numbers I like to see! Does that mean that you get a 33% performance increase for every GHz of CPU you add to your machine? The annoying thing I'm experiencing today is that the fan comes on about a minute after it shuts off, and then it stays on. Not a big deal if I've got headphones on, but in cube land (where you can hear each other typing) it's kinda loud. I'm also growing to loath the mouse (same as PowerBook, but two buttons - yeah!) - just b/c it's a laptop mouse (solution: KVM)

In other news, tomorrow is my last day at Comcast. It's been great working here - awesome folks to work with, cool company, very cool project. I'm leaving a week early b/c I got a small contract to write a webapp for a company in Florida. It should only take me a week or so, and I'll be doing it out of Raible Designs' HQ, so it'll be nice to see the fam a bit more. After that - who knows? I have a few irons in the fire (as Russ would say), but nothing is final yet. Posted in General at Aug 07 2003, 02:41:06 PM MDT 6 Comments

Comments:

If you can say, what company in FL is that?

Posted by dsuspense on August 07, 2003 at 03:22 PM MDT #

It's a small company, you probably haven't heard of them. We haven't officially signed a contract yet, so I'm going to keep the name under wraps (and probably will do so until I'm finished).

Posted by Matt Raible on August 07, 2003 at 03:31 PM MDT #

If you're interested in a KVM and it's only for two computers, and they use PS/2 connectors, this LinkSys KVM2KIT is awesome! I have one, and it's the best I've used yet. Now they just need to make a USB version. It's cool because it's totally small in comparison. I had one of those Belkin SOHO 4 ports like in your link. First, it didn't work as well (on my Linux box it jacked up the mouse), second it took up a lot of space. Oh, and of course using the ScrollLock key to switch is a little faster than reaching over to your KVM to press a button.

Posted by Chris Bailey on August 07, 2003 at 04:30 PM MDT #

I use IOGear's USB KVM and it works great. Make sure you get a KVM with high quality shielded VGA cables so you avoid any distortion on your monitor. I haven't found any sub $200 DVI/USB KVMs though.

Posted by Kurt on August 07, 2003 at 05:02 PM MDT #

I actually already have the Belkin SOHO 4 Port KVM - works great for me - and I run Win XP, RH 9, OS X and Win 2K.

Posted by Matt Raible on August 07, 2003 at 05:03 PM MDT #

If you have networked machines, skip the KVM and go directly to http://synergy2.sourceforge.net. One continuous desktop across XFree86 Xinerama, Winders XP and back to XFree86 on the "sniffer" laptop. Just the geek factor alone makes it worth doing! :-D

Posted by Wayne James on August 07, 2003 at 06:11 PM MDT #

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