It almost makes my eyes wet just a little, it is now again possible to own a Commodore Amiga and a cool one even ๐ it’s specs are quite promising (Core i7 etc.), and if you are mostly nostalgic you can just buy the casing and fit it yourself ๐
Well ok, trees don’t grow into heaven as we say here in Denmark as it is neither compatible nor driven by the original Kickstart / workbench “os” but still it has it’s own linux distro, and as I understand it you can download and install this free of charge on your own hardware (gotta try that, maybe they put in just a bit of nostalgia).
So for those of you who grew up with a Commodore Amiga here is your chance of revisiting this wonderful machine.
Long live Amiga.. ๐
Links;
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_AMIGAmini.aspx
Comodore OS;
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_OS_Vision.aspx
The Commodore AMIGA mini comes with: ย ย ย ย
- A massive 16 Gigs of fast DD3 memory.
- Integrated nVidia Geforce GT 430 Graphics with 1 Gig of DD3 memory.
- The ability to drive 3 monitors displays.
- HDMI, 2-Dual DVI and DisplayPort output. (includes VGA adaptor)
- 7.1 channel high definition sound.
- 6 Gb/s SATA for incredibly fast HD reads.
- 4 USB 3.0 and 4 USB 2.0 ports for exceptional external data access.
- A slot loading Blu-ray drive that can also write DVDs.
- 2 WiFi antennae for outstanding signal reception.
- A 1 Tb Hard Disk to store video and personal data.
- Optional 300 or 600 Gb SSD drive for lightning quick load times.
When I first installed Windows Vista I was annoyed with the changes to the search ability of Windows, this experience did not improve under Windows 7 quite to the opposite actually..ย The thing is, if you allow indexing of your drives searching is bearable – however if you like me have several terrabytes of data then Windows will never stop indexing, and the constant ‘ticking’ of the harddrive was driving me insane.
For a long time I decided to just live the very basic search ability in Windows 7/vista, it is quite possible to search for filenames and extentions – however the other day I really needed the ability to search for files containing a special text string – something that is impossible if you have turned indexing off (as far as I have been able to figure out).ย So after googling the subject I found several different utilities that could remedy this, however most at a price of around $25, now normally I don’t mind paying for something useful however as I use this quite seldom I decided to keep googling ๐
And I am pleased to announce that not only did I find something free it is awesome ๐
Your search ends here;ย http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/search_my_files.html
This utility is just brilliant and offers you tons of different search options..
tags; Windows, Search, Within, Text, Content
Curse Microsoft for their stupid changes to the basic Windows Search.
Do you for some reason need to keep track of your time?
Let’s say you work in a helpdesk and need to keep track of what you spend your time on, or perhaps you are an independent consultant and need to register when you use time on clients.ย There is a lot of reasons why you may need this.
Anyway here is a very cool free utility to assist you in doing just this, it is very easy and intuitive to use and implement.
Watch and learn ๐
Software can be downloaded here;
http://www.epiforge.com/Grindstone/