The computer upgrade has gone really well, but it has been quite an adventure. The coffee cups on the table tell the story — lots of early mornings and late nights! The early results have been very promising on two fronts: 1) Individual maps can be produced two to three times faster than the original… Continue reading Computer upgrade: one week update
Category: Hardware
Computer upgrade status
On Tuesday, the new 500GB seagate hard drives arrived at the house. This was to be my first experience setting up drives in a RAID configuration let alone installing a windows operating system onto it — definitely a learning experience! Desired setup: RAID 0 (performance) using two 500GB hard drives for a total capacity of… Continue reading Computer upgrade status
Live blogging a computer upgrade
It’s Saturday morning, and I am in the process of upgrading an old computer I have to help support the development of topocreator.com. This website has inspired me for a number of research projects along the way to becoming (hopefully) a successful e-commerce website. The backend program I am using to create maps is quite… Continue reading Live blogging a computer upgrade