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Fast, Cheap, Good
By Jerry Pournelle
May 3, 2004
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Column 285 (Continued from the Previous Week)
Building the System
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| The Antec Sonata case |
I started an hour or so before dinner. Thanks to that Antec Sonata case everything was simple and went fast. As always I got out my 5 mm hex driver for inserting the brass standoffs into the motherboard, and as always that saved me at least half an hour.
The Sonata provides rails for all the drives, and getting them into the drive bays is uncomplicated: Everything assembles about the way you think it should. I had the entire system assembled in about an hour. The only anomaly was the discovery that the memory went in the center slot rather than in the slot nearest the CPU.
Getting the CPU installed was no problem. The Athlon heatsink/fan connects to the socket the way old Socket 7 heatsinks did on Intel boards: It clips to the chip socket, rather than connecting to a frame attached to the motherboard. The heatsink is pretty heavy, but so far we haven't had any problems. I will warn Francis to lay the system down on its side (chip side up!) for transport and be reasonably careful in carrying it. I don't detect any tendency for the Fan/Heatsink to fall off, but it does put a good bit of weight on that chip socket. AMD really needs to work on the mechanics, but of course they have, and the newer series secures the heat sink and fan much better.
Otherwise I never had an easier assembly, with the caution that the ASUS documents are not in real English and the connections to the front panel are not entirely obvious. It took a while to figure them out from the manual and the color coding on the motherboard; but it didn't really take very long.
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| What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed)
Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It
Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
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