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title: "Mean Machine"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/17/mean-machine.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/17/mean-machine.html"
published: "2003-04-17T21:04:00"
updated: "2003-04-17T21:04:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "It's been a couple of days without blogging. I got my new machine into the house and was waaay to busy at work to install everything properly and moving stuff from the old machine. It's a beauty : 2.2 AMD Athelon XP…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Mean Machine

By Roy Osherove April 17, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 17, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

It's been a couple of days without blogging. I got  my new machine into the house and was waaay to busy at work to install everything properly and moving stuff from the old machine.

**It's a beauty** : 2.2 AMD Athelon XP with 512 MB RAM, DVD and CDR  And an NVidia GForce 64 Megs with TV OUT just for the heck of it. So after a hefty day of putting all the stuff i need in (Everett runs like a babe!) i'll go sleep a little and be back blogging again in the morning.

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Apr 27, 2003

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- Apr 17, 2003

    ### [Accented Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/17/accented-blogging.html)

- Apr 15, 2003

    ### [Categories](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/15/categories.html)

- Apr 15, 2003

    ### [Need a bigger wallet (+stuffing)](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/15/need-a-bigger-wallet-stuffing.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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