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Shuttle Fun

Post author By Ben
Post date June 18, 2003

I’m starting some Shuttle mods thanks to some tips from the forums over at Sudhian Media. So far, I’ve replaced the CPU / Case fan with an Enermax 80mm fan that got rave reviews over at directron. I’ve also replaced the PSU fan with an ADDA 40mm fan, but it’s still too loud.

My new mission is to make this thing as quiet as possible, so I’ve ordered a replacement PSU fan, a Zalman ZM80a-HP GPU cooler to replace the video card fan and a Zalman NB-32J heatsink for the Northbridge, which is currently cooled using a fan. I’m also getting a 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, which has fluid dynamic bearings for ultra-quiet operation. All in all, this thing should rock the house, quiet style. I’ve been continually impressed with the performance of the box, but it’s just too loud in the stock configuration.

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Interviews

Post author By Ben
Post date June 11, 2003

Artima.com has a nice set of interviews with a number of different people. Check it out.

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Smoove

Post author By Ben
Post date June 11, 2003

Wow, this brings back all kinds of memories from college. I wonder whatever happened to Kevin…

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Things to check out with the Shuttle

Post author By Ben
Post date June 9, 2003

Tip Set One
Tip Set Two

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.net annoyances

Post author By Ben
Post date June 1, 2003

Ugh. I’m using System.Enum’s built-in parsing bits, and I really like ’em. However, why would you provide a case-insensitive option on the Parse method, but not on IsDefined? That makes IsDefined less than useful. Now I have to try to parse and catch an exception if the parse fails, which just makes for ugly code, not to mention the slowdown with the exception handling. I hate it when the framework team does this crap.