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Replacing the File/Print Server
A few years ago I heard about the Fit-PC. It was a computer that was the size of a stack of two or three CD jewel cases running Ubuntu. This was pretty cool, but, most importantly, it only used 15 watts of electricity when under highest load. At first I entertained using it to replace…
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Number 9 Number 9 Number 9
14 Sept Sometime in my junior or senior year of college I came across a book about building my own computer and resolved to do it. My tribulations with my Dell computer were enough to convince me that building computers with generic parts was the way to go. Later experience with my Emachine and the…
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Interesting CPU Behavior
I never really knew much about how CPUs worked until I took a class in CPU design at Cornell. Until that point I never knew about registers and cache and pipelines. Ever since then I’ve been growing in my understanding of how the CPU works and how all the parts fit together. This culminated in…