Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
My home is close to the Cambridge Science Park, a local business park where a lot of innovative companies have offices, including my employer. There is also a telephone exchange called Science Park nearby which provides telephone and Internet services to companies at the Science Park and also to my home. But it is not innovative [...]
Over a year ago I replaced Sendmail with Postfix on my main mail server. The new mail setup has worked very well ever since. There was however still room for improvement: I still used UW IMAP as the IMAP and POP3 server. This software works fine in general but is neither particular fast nor under [...]
A few days ago I read a review of a high-end graphics card in the c’t magazine. The card featured nVidia’s latest and greatest GPU and a very elaborate cooling system which was required to reduce the fan noise to acceptable levels. I was shocked by the price of the graphics card. At €510 the [...]