Today is CSS Naked Day and I celebrate this by stripping my blog from styles.

• The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your .Dustin Diaz – CSS Naked Day

Inspired by Lillbra.se

I’ve spent some time and money on a development rig for home, and I ended up with te following experience numbers.

That is great result for a complete machine under 1500€. Here are my first impressions on some of the components.

Intel X25-M 80Gb hard drive

You notice at once the at once, the difference between a traditional hard drive and this SSD from Intel. File operations are blazingly fast, and I use this disc as my system disc and have a traditional Western Digital Caviar Green as my main storage for games, programs, music and movies. With this drive my Windows 7 boots in no more than 10 seconds from POST, which is nothing short of amazing.

Gigabyte ATI Radeon 5750

I was looking for a low budget graphics card, since my focus is not playing games but development. I do not want to exclude the posibility, so a card that does not sound like a motor way and with low power consumption. Today, my girlfriend fired up The Sims 3 in full HD resolution without any complaints from the graphics card with neither lag nor noicy fan. I’m very happy with this choice!

Asus P7P55D and Intel i5 750

I found out that Intel i5 750 actually outperformed the old Intel i7 920 and is cheaper at the same time. This is the best choice for any budget computer, but still has a very sharp edge. It seems like a very happy combination together with the Asus P7P55D mother board, which was a joy to install in my system. I have not found any real annoyances with this mother board yet, and troubleshooting failing components is a blast with on board leds that tells you whats wrong. No more looking up short beeps, long beeps in the manuall to try to interpretate why system boot is failing.

Complete specifications

Here is a complete specification of my system. Enjoy!

• Chassis: Antec miditower nine hundret two
• PSU: Corsair TX 650W
• Motherboard: Asus P7P55D P55 S-1156
• CPU: Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz
• CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U12P
• System drive: Intel X25-M 80Gb
• Storage drive: Western Digital Caviar Green 1Tb
• RAM: Kingston DIMM DDR3 4Gb 1333Mhz CL9
• GPU: Gigabyte Radeon HD5750 1Gb GDDR5

So, I had an unnerving experience trying to install Windows 7 the last couple of days. After the files where extracted from the dvd and the splash animation had run, the installation would hang, showing only the end of the splash animation with the frisky message “Starting Windows”.

It took me a total of 8 hours to figure it out. Many of the tips you will find on the Internet tells you to

• Jank out all USB devices and disable USB in the BIOS if possible
• Make sure that 1397 is disabled in the BIOS
• Disconnect everything in the computer that is not needed for the installation, including expansion cards and extra hard drives.
• Update the bios with the latest version from your vendor
• Reset the bios and make sure that APCI is enabled

None of these did the the trick for me. What made the installation process hang was the second 2GB memory module that I’ve installed in my system. By removing all memory modules except one, the installation could proceed.

There does not seem to be any silver bullet for solving this issue, and it does seem to be different for each and every failed installation. It would be nice to get some kind of error message to ease troubleshooting.

I wish you good luck if you have a similiar problem!

When I was invited to Google Wave a horrible user name was created for me, because I once choose to sign up for an gmail address with that name just to test GMail spam filter against some subscription functionality I was currently developing.

This got me to research how to change the username that is given and I found the following solution.

Edit your profile

Go to your google profile and press Edit Profile. If you’re not logged in you’ll have to authenticate yourself.

• http://www.google.com/profiles/me

At the bottom of this page you should be able to change your profile URL. When you do this you will also change your username inside Google Wave. It required a restart of my browser before the change went through. I’m not sure if it was just a delay or if they caches your user name with Google Gears or some similar technology.

* Note: I did not loose any waves or contacts that I’d set up before the change.

Happy Waving! You may now reach me at mikael.lundin82@googlewave.com.