Jim Prince on January 14th, 2010

I'd been having a problem with GD being out of date on a LAMP installation on Ubuntu.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 [...]

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Jim Prince on January 4th, 2010

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 [...]

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