Continuing my build out of this new workstation, I grabbed the latest re-spin from the Fedora Unity project. It installed smoothly, but like Vista, failed to recognize the new Intel network adapters. I gave the mobo’s supplied CD another chance to redeem itself to load a usable driver. To my delight, it worked! No Internet [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Fedora 8 Re-Spin
Feb 23
Workstation built
Feb 17
Happily, all components arrived safely and timely. I spent a couple of hours on a Friday night installing the power supply, assembling the CPUs and motherboard on the case’s removable tray. Then came plugging in the memory, video card, and the case’s switches and LEDs harness. Finally, attaching the power supply cabling to the motherboard and [...]
New workstation
Feb 7
I have been putting off the replacement of my personal workstation for the better part of a year now. It was custom configured and built by myself in January 2004, and actually made the #2 spot in the 3dmark rankings. I do not tweak for over-clocking, or other nonsense like that. I just prefer to [...]
