GD Library versions and Ubuntu

Posted on January 14th, 2010 in General, Technology, Work by Jim Prince

I'd been having a problem with GD being out of date on a LAMP installation on Ubuntu. This was odd because the installation is the latest (9.10) release. After some digging, it would seem that in Ubuntu PHP5 is not compiled with the version of GD that comes bundled with PHP! 

There's a really helpful article explaining how to recompile PHP5 with support for the latest version of GD here. You'll probably need to update the directories and file names depending on the release you're using but it worked for me.

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Overclocking an Intel E2160

Posted on January 4th, 2010 in General, Personal, Technology by Jim Prince

A while back I overclocked my aging Gigabyte motherboard and Intel Pentium 2160 processor. I overclocked the CPU from 1.8Ghz to 3.0Ghz and the machine has been rock solid with the CPU core temperature around 45° even under load.
 
The motherboard is a Gigabyte ga-p35-s3. Here are the settings I used;
 
CPU Clock Ratio [9x]
CPU Frequency [3.00 Ghz (333x9)]
CPU Host Freqency [333]
System Memory Multiplier [2.40]
System Voltage Control [Manual]
DDR2 Overvoltage Control [+0.1v]
PCI-E Overvoltage Control [+0.1v]
FSB Overvoltage Control [+0.1v]
CPU Voltage Control [1.50000v]
 
I hope this helps someone but of course your mileage may vary. Any changes you make as a result of this post are entirely at your own risk…
 

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