Excuse me while I get my inner geek on.
I had Red Hat system that needed to be upgrade from running Ruby 1.8.5 to Ruby 1.8.6.  Unfortunately, Red Hat really lags in releasing RPM’s for many packages, and Ruby is one of the packages.
Now I have drunk the Red Hat RPM Kool-aid.  IMHO using RPM’s on [...]

Since my last post about Cyberpower, I have continued to experience issues with my system.  First, something was seriously wrong with my video system.  After a lot of diagnoses and downloading EVGA Precision, I determined that one of my two 9800GX2 cards was running hot (WAY HOT).  At idle, this card was running @ 70(c) [...]

Oh, joy is upon us, dear readers!  I FINALLY received my PC from CyberpowerPC.  Read Part 1 HERE
I received the PC on the revised date that Cyberpower had promised (10/15/08).  I arrived home to find a single HUGE white box, which looked quite beat-up. In case anyone was unsure of the contents of the [...]

I have read MANY advertisements for Cyberpowerpc.com, though I have never paid much attention to them.  I generally buy high-end Dell PC’s, or I build my own.  I read MaximumPC magazine religously and I was surprised to see the high marks they gave the CyberPower Gamer Ultimate SLI QUAD.  I currently have an aging home [...]