amd64 - The Twilight Report

Drinking lots of water to compensate for suspected illness. I think the UPS man tried to deliver my iPod today. Must rush home tomorrow before 5 so that I can be here to sign for it. The new AMD64 (Doublethink II) gets posted tomorrow I think, so I might not get that until next week! I can't see how I can possibly get everything done before I go to LA and Australia in February.

Getting a new computer at work. If you have been reading my tirades of late then you know that I didn't ask for one, but now that I'm getting it I've decided to be gracious in accepting this gift.

It's going to be an AMD64 which means I will gain experience with that platform. It comes with only 512MB RAM, which may not be enough. Paul just reminded me that the pointers are all going to be twice as big for any application running in 64bit mode (and of course the kernel). Still, I used Starscream for years as a web server, and that was an underpowered 64bit machine by today's standards with a staggering low128MB of RAM.

I will christen the machine Doublethink II, and decommission Doublethink I. It will probably then be destroyed so that The Company can depreciate it for tax purposes. Kinda sad really.

Funny thing about this new machine. They are going outside of the normal procurement procedures on this one which means that it will cost a fraction of what it would otherwise. Those of you know which company I work for know how often they give us a computer without The Company logo on it.