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Although i haven’t found any of my favor casing.

But i have shortlisted component which is require , the next step is goto low-yat net to find best price offer around.

• XX HTPC Case
• Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
• AMD Athlon X2 4200 with stock cooler
• 1GB Corsair Memory (plain vanilla)
• 160GB Maxtor SATA HD
• LITEON DVD-RW Slim loading slot drive
• 350 to 500 watt PSU 80plus certified
• Vista/Linux

Why AMD  , i being survey around in US,EMEA,China,Taiwan so far AMD 790 is the among mbox which support HDMI , buildin ATI GPU and lower power consumption since it build at a smaller chipset .Even when Nvia MCP7 and Intel G35 still not able to give a fair run with AMD 780g. (Maybe i am long AMD supporter).

So when i pick AMD mbox, i should have pick a AMD CPU but why  4200 because, it got enough power to run and due to mbox i select as well , I can’t put an Intel CPU on AMD mbox…:)

Why still DVD-RW , because Blue-Ray now in malaysia still not selling  like hot cake in EMEA hence my current DVD-RW will be able to cope till another 2-3 year.

Just spotted this mbox at Cpu3d.com (UK Site) , and it look like Dell.US is one of their distributor but Dell.MY is not selling it.And they are selling at around 3xx dollar ,imaging when we buy it at malaysia..:(

Here are some of the snap of this Omaura
Overview size of this Omaura TF8

Look inside TF8.

Sometime we can’t look at what available but we also must check on what is not available to make our favor machine look good.

Recently found this bodyskits at GC klang .

Let’s see how good does it look like one

Mugen Type RR

I still trying to make decision on getting which bodyskits better …:(

 Normally when we are in pre-sales position ,sales or marketing personel will come to ask us as consultant/DBA about what kind of server should we buy  if we are running 1000 end -user in OLTP  or even 2000 Online user in concurrent access.

Initially when they ask this kind of question and they expected some answer , as Consultant b4 we always said depend on this and that.

because no matter how much of ram/CPU/Core/harddisk space is allocated if we don’t know the input of it then we cant expect the output.

But it is very easi for you as i’m consultant of my x-company and i know how is the application like and it just OLTP and customer daily and monthly job is just the same . Pletty much i can cover 80% major of it and it also depend on my experience on knowing all this. 20% have to do for unknow/uncertainty.

And i found out this on mysql Performance blog and i totally agree on the Author himself , and someone left a comment to this site for initial kick start on what it can be .. It not a free size but it able to give some basic judgement of how should sales/marketing quote

For the sake of green IT , it also help us to decide more preciously on what is needed instead of asking customer to buy something which is useless for them in 5 year down the road.

Check this out Click

If we mention Thermaltake during last few year where AMD is very famous around “hot boiling ” alot of CPU. Thermaltake is the only solution around.

When searching for my idea cashing , i have found this DH101 , although it is about the same as silverstone but it come with better ventilation.

as show in picture below
At back Dual 60*60*25mm silentFan with 2500rpm blowing out.

At the front side another 120*120*25mm 1200 rpm blowing.. in 16dBA (not bad).

According to their website , it actually simulate the hot air flowing
from front(Cool air) is circular to the casing and come out from the back.

if we want a quite one , it come with a stylish Gold-Plated foot stands. like this
and a accessible DVD drive(Maybe a Blue-ray Disk combo with HD-DVD).
if we have some external memory card of movie/picture need to add how ?
firewire 1304 ,HD Audio , USD 2.0 it is all we needed..

And the last is the layout killing…
I will give it a 4/5 for HTPC…like see what is the price in low-yatt.. unknow.!!!!! Look like this still not in shore yet…

Not to worry, let’s start some inside component resource.

Before i even read PCADV from Pchome , i really dont know where to start to build my HTPC.(Home Theater Personal Computer).

Now i know where should i start now , getting all component ready then start decide which charming casing to use . We have to get all information ready then we are able to start it right.

1) What we want for our HTPC ? Video in Full-HD

2) Do we want a quiet one or a bit noisy one (due to power/CPU fan running)

3) Will that HTPC will be on 24*7*365 ?

4) Are you going to use that HTPC for internet browsing.

5) BT or Emule usage if it going to be open all day along

6) Do we want to use it for gaming purpose since it will pair with BIG LCD/Plasma TV ?

7) Will HTPC electricity bill killing our pocket ?..:)

With all this in mind then we can start to decide what direction should we going .

In this post I will describe how to install and configure mod_deflate on an Apache2 web server. mod_deflate allows Apache2 to compress files and deliver them to clients (e.g. browsers) that can handle compressed content which most modern browsers do such as IE6, Firefox 2 . With mod_deflate, you can compress HTML, text or XML files to approx. 20 - 30% of their original sizes, thus saving you server traffic and making your modem users happier.If the browser does not have the capability to handle compressed content, the server delivers the files uncompressed.

1)edit Apache2’s configuration manually to enable mod_deflate. You might have to add a line like this to the LoadModule section: {make sure the path of the libary is at the location}

LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so

2) Setting up what kind of file require to be compress .At httpd.conf find where is the word come from ==>

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

3) Add below parameter into httpd.conf

# deflat parameter

DeflateCompressionLevel 6
DeflateMemLevel 9
AddOutputFilter DEFLATE css js
DeflateFilterNote Input input_info
DeflateFilterNote Output output_info
DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio_info
LogFormat ‘”%r” %{output_info}n/%{input_info}n (%{ratio_info}n%%)’ deflate –> format of the log items.
CustomLog E:\location\deflate_log deflate –> deflate log file for us to bullet proof on the compression

4) Check the deflate_log

“GET /wordpress/ HTTP/1.1″ 16981/71935 (23%) -It original size is 71935 byte and compress into 16981.

Try to amend and tune those paremeter before we remove the log files , because putting a extra logfile will increase our apache load.

What is this Apache Bench ?

Recently just go through Oreilly - MySQL conference note abt benchmarking.

This AB is actually testing of web application which running in apache web server.

Refer to this Link  ,

Example of command to use

-n  Request in numeric

-c  concurrent in mumeric
ab -n 100 -c 10 [http://localhost/index.html ]
Benchmarking localhost (be patient)…..done
Server Software: Apache/1.3.33
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /index.html
Document Length: 1456 bytes

–Continuous

Concurrency Level: 10
Time taken for tests: 0.662 seconds
Complete requests: 100
Failed requests: 0
Broken pipe errors: 0
Total transferred: 188000 bytes
HTML transferred: 145600 bytes
Requests per second: 151.06 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 66.20 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 6.62 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 283.99 [Kbytes/sec] received

Continues –

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 15
66% 15
75% 15
80% 15
90% 16
95% 477
98% 483
99% 485
100% 485 (last request)

So that we know how much max load our server is able to take without sacrify visitor time of waiting.

p.s I just run it at my server , it look like there are more tunning i need to do…:)

When Germany Audi compare with Japan top notch Lexus.

Sophisticate , driver experience ,elegant and muscle feeling, Although for us living in malaysia earn peanut salary but we still able to

dream abt them …:)

Wow..Rieger tune A4 B8(2008) .

Both also having sky high price tag …if malaysia 2.7 slogan change to 4.9 then i believe alot of people will jump from the board and get a kelisa instead