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I was initially very impressed with the ease of installation and device detection on my 3 yr old laptop. Over the last couple of weeks of downloading and setting up software though, it was obcious there was something not quite right with the video drivers… the update rate and screen refresh was not as slick as what I’ve been used to in XP.

I did some searching around and found links to the ‘fglrx’ driver, a Linux display driver from ATI. Check out my post on getting this working – read more here.

Now I’ve got this installed and configured correctly, my screen updates, scrolling, moving windows around the screen etc are *very* smooth… it looks pretty impressive…

IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated they can overclock a Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) based CPU to 500GHz Рthe catch? They had to supercool it down to within a couple of degrees from absolute zero (-268.5°C).

For certain types of data (frequently accessed, but infrequently changed), caching is an easy approach to improving performance by minimizing database roundtrips.

BEA’s dev2dev site have an interesing article on how to use declarative caching. With this approach using Spring, methods in which you want to take advantage of caching can be declared and wired up to the Caching provider in the Spring Application Context file, instead of having to hard-code the access to the Cache API within your code, which would make the code harder to follow, maintain, and would tie you to a particular cache provider.