Archive March 2009

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March 20, 2009 in Funny Stuff

A friend of me was just laughing at me because I didn’t know this video. Shame on me… !

Upgrading my 2009 Mac mini

March 20, 2009 in Computer, Mac

I just upgraded my new Mac mini with 4Gb of RAM and a 320Gb HDD. I ordered Kingston DDR3-1066 4Gb Kit tested for Apple (see Kingston Memory Configurator) and a Seagate Momentus 2007.3 2.5″ 7200rpm 320Gb from Computeruniverse.

Okay… ordering was the easy part, but installing was quite difficult! I don’t mean the upgrade itself, but opening the case without scratching it! These two videos helped me a lot:

With the new memory added I can now even run Lightroom very well and the new HDD isn’t much (if any) noisier than the 5400rpm Fujitsu one.

Watch some pics of the upgrade if you want:
These little pins really ******* me off

My new Mac mini

March 19, 2009 in Computer, Mac

Just 10 days after Apple announced the new Mac mini I recieved mine last Friday Would you believe me if I’d tell you that I was happy as a child on christmas evening when I unpacked it?

I bought the “small” version with a 2.0Ghz Core2Duo, a 120Gb 5400rpm HDD and 1Gb of RAM because I am going to upgrade HDD and RAM myself.

All in all I really like the new mac mini. It plays 1080p Blurays just fine. It’s boot up time is also great (even with the 5400rpm HDD and 1Gb RAM!) and the noise… what noise? My Dell XPS M1530 is way noisier than this mini (WAAAAAAAAAAY noisier!) The fan almost never kicks in and even when it does… it’s noise is pretty pleasant. Sadly there are still some annoying bugs, but Apple is working on Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Mac OS Snow Leopard. Hope they will fix everything that annoys me :p There is not much more to say about the new Mac mini, no impressive innovations, still the same design… Have a look at my unboxing pics if you want. I’ll post an update of the upgrading process when I received the new HDD and RAM.

Isn’t the box cute?

What’s in the box:

The mini’s new home:

Performance issues of this Blog & what's wrong with OVH's RPS

March 16, 2009 in Computer, Daily Life, I'm Bitching

Hi guys & ladies I know it’s been quite silent in here during the last few weeks, but I was quite busy and everytime I had some spare time to blog my damn web-server caused some problems…

O.K. I have to admit I’m a student that doesn’t have much money, so I went with a cheap pseudo-virtualized machine called RPS from OVH, which has only a small Intel Celeron CPU with 512MB DDR2 RAM. But that’s actually fine for a low-frequented website like this… if there wouldn’t be one major issues with these RPS’: The hard-disk is an iSCSI share connected through a simple FastE port, which wouldn’t be much of a problem if OVH didn’t oversubscribe their iSCSI hosts (at least it looks like they do). Sometimes the iSCSI drive is as fast as ~250kByte/s what makes it impossible to do anything. Of course I contacted their support and after about 4 days of total downtime (couldn’t even login through SSH) they rebooted the iSCSI host, what – so they believe – solved the problem… You might have noticed that it did not.

So… I asked around a bit and got an impressive amount of feedback of users who have exactly the same problem as I have. Sucks…
Long story short: I’m gonna quit the contract for this “server” (doesn’t really serve, does it?) and search for a cheap (yeah I mean inexpensive) alternative.

Please stay tuned in the meantime and subscribe to my RSS-Feed if you want (just wanted to mention this because hits per day have decreased to less than 50% since the server got that unreliable ). Take care.