#fitpc

We just got some fantastic feedback from software developer (and full time sailboat resident!) Chris L.:

From: Chris L. <xxx> Subject: Intense PC gives me Intense Pleasure

Hello Jerry, 

Just to let you know I picked up my Intense PC Wednesday, plugged in Vertex 3 SSD in SATA plug, plugged in usb+wireless mouse and keyboard, changed BIOS to boot from my USB memory stick where I had copied the Win 7 Pro CD you sent, installed it, Windows Updated it, installed Office 2007, Antivirus, Visual Studio 2010, MSSQL Server 2008 and a bunch of other apps... and it's just booting+ running so fast.

Even played full screen videos with VS 2010 and other apps running background and had no delays or quirks or skips...

Awesome!

We asked him if I could post his email on our blog. He wrote back:

You might want to add that I'm a software developer on Microsoft Platforms and that I now am a full time live- aboard my sailboat - meaning 12v main electrical supply. And that I chose FitPC over laptops for their performance, rich I/O and most important very very low amp consumption - yes, they suck 0.5A in sleep mode, 1.5A in use mode for FitPC I/II/III and about 2.5A for the Intense PC.

And, oh! yes!, this is my 3rd FitPC. And, yes, I respect myself (being in IT) and, yes, I still use the first two.

hiya,

Don't have much in the sense of new screenshots for you but I can say that we've been busy.

Joseph's internship has ended with us for now, we'll be in contact and i'm pretty sure we haven't seen the last of him.

A new development server! Last week I made Borf (head developer) a very happy developer. I finally arranged a new development server for us to work on. So we've spent some of our time moving around the server files to sagramore's new home. For those of you who care for the details, it's a HP DL160 with a Quad core Xeon CPU, 4GB ram, a raid-1 configuration on the primary disks (1TB) and an extra backup disk with 1,5TB running Debian Squeeze 64bit.  Borf couldn't help himself and felt the dire need to instantly get Sagramore compiled as a 64bit application. Which increases the performance a little bit.

So now all is well and properly setup making it a lot faster then our previous server (AMD sempron with 512mb ram) from the generation of maps (which sped up by 50%) to the compiling of the server source (which sped up by some 70%) .

a message from the graphic department:

The upcoming new tileset marks the point where the entire graphical overhaul is basically complete. Aside from one or two lost objects, we will have completely switched over to our new visual style.

-Nicky

A fit-pc ? 

Last friday we received our Fit-pc2, this is a tiny computer which will function as our main Access point & server for demonstration purposes. This will allow people to connect and test sagramore themselves wherever we set up.

   These things are really small as you can see. They house an intel Atom 1.6GHz , a gig ram and a 160 GB harddisk. The sagramore server is not very demanding resource wise so it runs without problem. pretty neat ey ?