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Dual Core Athlon 64

June 1st, 2005 · 1 Comment

The AMD Dual Core Athlon 64 has just started shipping. This comment explains why, despite their high price compared with the entry-level Pentium D dual core at half the price, they are actually quite competitive.
Looks like one can build an Athlon 64 2X workstation with reasonable spec for a little over HK$10K. The entry level [...]

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Tags: Tools for Work

“Your Friends Might Want This”

June 1st, 2005 · Comments Off

There is a new Citibank branch in the IFC. I went there to drop off a cheque for my credit card bill last week. The cashier approached me with this pamphlet and asked me whether I would be interested in opening a CitiGold account. Well me being a CitiTin (versus CitiGold/CitiSilver) kind of guy, I [...]

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Tags: Social Restructuring

VPN

June 1st, 2005 · 3 Comments

I played w/ OpenVPN 2 release candidate a couple of months ago. Mostly likely my own fault for not RTFM, but I couldn’t get it to work then. I gave up w/o much trying.
James’ acquisition of a Wifi broadband router w/ VPN server feature re-ignited my interest in setting up some sort of VPN for [...]

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