PCI and PCIe X1 cards for my T105 Dell server.

Dell T105 servers are neat reliable and cheap. The emphasis is on Cheap, as they are shipped with just enough parts to boot and not even an OS is installed. Very customizable.

I am started using shared servers and do not have much use of this server at home. So I want to use it as a powerful desktop. All I am missing is a good video card and a good sound card.

These T105 servers have a non standard PCIe X8 slots/expansion bays and PCIe X1 and PCI slot.

I went to the neighbourhood Micro center and purchased a pci sound card (Diamond XtreamSound 24Bit PCI)

I brought it home to only realize that the card’s connector cards are facing the opposite way. WFT was my first thought.

Reading fine print shows that the card is of type PCI 2.2, don’t know if this is the reason why the card slots don’t match, but the card is going back tomorrow.

I am buying a Video card and PCI x16 to PCI X1 adaptor with it online at amazon.com after much research, I’m hoping at least it will be compatible. :(

So far its been a frustrating exercise. Check back for further updates.

-Good night!

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Pretty Code in Blogger

I guess Blogger did not realize a bunch of geeky developers will use their blog engine to blogg and paste code. If you are one of us, you would have realized that code pasting support sucks.

My brother Google.com showed me the way. Here is what I use.

http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter:Brushes

Let me know if you want to use this, I will try to post steps on how to use this.

BTW, my previous post had some code snippet from C# in pretty formatted way.

Config file access for Windows Mobile apps

I wanted to post this code of how to use config files within windows mobile apps.




Here is the xml file I use as Config.txt. I also mark this txt file's build action as content and "Copy to output Directory" as "Copy Always"