Shopping list

What I’ve bought in the past couple of days, all under the name of “Thanks Giving shopping”:

• A Sony HandyCam, now I can formally retire my Casio Exim
• A set of JA Hanckels knives for kitchen … you will be cut even just look at it
• Mario Kart for my Wii! Yes, I like racing game for all the time, even if it is childish

will play with these stuffs for sometime, having fun, and enjoying life.

Lobster killer!!!

Somebody heard it from “Julie and Julia”, and because I cooked a lobster for Thanks Giving, now I’m called “lobster killer” for all the time.

BTW, this year’s lobster tasted good, one more to come for this weekend.

Dream of a 8-core machine … but why?

Trying to search online for an affordable 8-cores machine, but now I’m asking myself – why?

Well, one of the most obviously reason is that if I can have one powerful machine, I can retire 2 or 3 machines at home, include one P4 desktop from year 2003, one PowerBook from year 2004, and one P4 laptop from year 2005 (this one is actually in question).

I found out that I need this many machines just because I need to test all those multiple host development and deployment. What could be ideal to me, is that I can have 8~10 hosts running in two separated network, so I can test more than what I’m playing now.

Actually I should not expect for a 8-core box as it will be pretty expensive (haven’t locked down price yet), based on my experience with current dual-core machine, it seems a 4-core box can satisfy me – it will be able to run 8~10 VMs but I need at least 8G memory, and if it is 12G then all data VMs can run at 1G mem which will be more like a real world.

So I should forget about 8-core machine unless someday Intel or AMD roll out a single 8-core CPU for desktop. It seems to me the most reasonable plan to consolidate computers at home is getting a new iMac, let it be the home desktop, running all photo/video editing, storage massive data, etc, and take the current home desktop (which is a 4-core desktop) and then retire the PowerBook (maybe leave it running somewhere? Anyway it does not occupy too much space) and the P4 box, and turning current dual-core machine as the second Window machine at home, pity I don’t think it can run Windows 7.