Screws in my coffee

Today I had my first work day with my MacBook Pro.  I am writing another Blog about my experience using Mac only tools.  The blog is called iMacFool. My department director and network administrator had a lot of fun with trying to figure out why I was using a Mac.  The department director is a Mac user and he scoffed at me using VMware Fusion to put my virtual machine of my old Windows laptop on my Mac.  The network administrator razzed me as a free thinker that does not process in a lineal fashion.

So in that moment I relized that what I had been waiting fo was truly in my hands.  I wanted to get a MacBook Pro not because I wanted to run the Mac OS only. I wanted a MacBook Pro because I believe Apple Computer has finally got it right, they have harnessed the Intel processor, good industrial design and BSD with the Apple brand.  I have been waiting to come back to a Mac for 10 years.  I ahve waited for a computer to truly keep up with me and do exactly what I want all on one piece of hardware. The MacBook Pro is such a computer.

So am I a Mac fanactic all of a sudden?  Will I start to bash Microsoft products?  No, I’ll do none of the fore mentioned.  I will continue to work with the tools that I choose and solve problems.  I can appreciate how Apple chose to allow a user like myself to run Microsoft software on Apple hardware.  In fact I installed Vista on this Mac and got all of the laptop drivers to work faster than ever before.

So from one desktop run MS Office, Adobe CS4 and PC-BSD.  I have hardware and software that is easy to use so all I have to worry about is creating content and solving problems.  I’m sure that in a year from now thee will be e lot of changes in the computer world. I kept my IBM A21P for over 6 years.  I can only hope that this MacBook Pro will keep me happy for halve that long.

This post will be copied to my iMacFool site even though it was written on my other personal blog Screws in my coffee.

I am planning my next server.  I want to build a server that is optimized for running virtualized computers and large disk storage. I’m using this post to take some notes. With all of this information in one place my goal is for it to help me design my next computer. There is a lot of information about computer parts on the Internet and this is the source of this information.

Some of my friends have asked why I build my own computers and I always reply because it is fun and I learn a lot. I rarely document my design process so here is a place to watch how I do it.

Intel® Xeon® Processor 7000 Sequence

These processors are for servers

I will go with the cheapest 45nm quad core with 12mb L3 cache, the Xeon E7430.  Now I’ll search for a motherboard.

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5000 Sequence

These processors are for workstations.

Processor Number?	Cache	Clock Speed	Front Side Bus	System Type	Power	Dual-core	Quad-core
45-nm technology
X5492	12MB	3.40 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	150W
X5470	12MB	3.33 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	120W
X5482	12MB	3.20 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	120W
X5472	12MB	3.00 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	120W
E5472	12MB	3.00 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	80W
E5462	12MB	2.80 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	80W
X5460	12MB	3.16 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	120W
X5450	12MB	3.00 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	120W
E5450	12MB	3.00 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
E5440	12MB	2.83 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
L5430	12MB	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	50W
E5430	12MB	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
L5420	12MB	2.50 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	50W
E5420	12MB	2.50 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
L5410	12MB	2.33 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	50W
E5410	12MB	2.33 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
E5405	12MB	2.00 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
X5272	6MB	3.40 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	80W
X5270	6MB	3.50 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
X5260	6MB	3.33 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
L5240	6MB	3.00 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	40W
E5205	6MB	1.86 GHz	1066 MHz	DP	65W

For a 3D expert system Intel recommends this Xeon X5482 configuration.

The motherboard is a dual processor with LGA771 socket design.

ASUS DSEB-DG/SAS

High Power Efficiency Platform with SAS Support Ready

ASUS new server board DSEB-DG/SAS is based on 45nm Intel® Xeon® 5400/5300/5200/5100 processor with the green design of 90%+ power efficiency. Featured with leading-edge technology including FSB 1600MHz, FB-DIMM 800MHz, PCI-Express Gen2 x16 and SAS support, the DSEB-DG/SAS is the most out-performance server board which is ideal for enterprise-class and computing demanding applications.

Asus DSEB-DG/SAS mother board

Motherboard Specifications

Here is a specification for a Dell server.

Go to Sylvia’s Blog.  In the search box enter garden and see what happens.

I created a custom Google.com search engine.  It searches across all of the domains that we have and puts the results on a page with other related banners.  The more content that we add to the pages the more words will be valid in the search.

The custom search can be revised or I can create others.  Here is a list of the web sites.

http://austingardencoach.com

http://austingardencoaching.com

http://launiart.com/blog

http://launiart.com

http://lonnie.wormley.org

http://sylvia.wormley.org/blog

http://sylvia.wormley.org

http://www.wormley.org

I spent the July 4th weekend setting up Google Analytics and Google Adsense on the web sites listed above.