Tag Archives: Hardware

Gadgets

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Got a new gadget the other day, it’s a GPS, a Garmin etrex Legend HCx, it fits great in the palm of my hand and on my bike. I’ve uploaded City Navigator Maps and gave it a testrun today and it works like a charm. Navigating by the map is not that easy, it’s to small, but I changed the interface to show me turn by turn navigation and that helped a lot.

I’m about to try the TOPO maps of sweden since I’m going hiking there en about a month, I’ll let you know how the unit baves under those conditions.

Solidstate fans?

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It almost doesn’t make sense. But if you take this:

Shrinks it and stuffs it next to you CPU or GPU you will have an almost silent airmover. Apparently it moves more air and consumes less power than a traditionally fan.
Look at this:

It must be producing a lot of ozone though. Ans isn’t there something about ozone and rubber? Or Ozone and headaches?
I dont know, I just know I want one, now please!

By the way, please do not comment on that guys hair, even if we are talking about fans :-s

Netgear EVA 8000 HD

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Some time ago I bought a Netgear EVA 8000 HD, it is a media player that plays multimediacontent on an USB disk or your network. I quickly realised that the firmware it was born with was bugridden and not quite ready. It is save to say that I was a bit disappointed. But mutch to my surprise I discovered that not only was I not alone in my disappointment, Netgear was developing the software for this player rather aggressively! The first update fixed a LOT of bugs and I have become a betatester for Netgears developmentbranch of the software and they ship a new betafirmware approximately once a a week.

It is turning out to be an interesting, rather than disappointing, piece of hardware 🙂

EDIT:

I completely forgot to mention that it runs Linux!

New stuff

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Got a new laptop the other day. A Dell XPS M 1330. It was delivered with Vista but that was soon fixed! A Debian netinstall CD and it was humming along happily after a few hours 🙂

It was more or less effortless to get all the hardware running under debian. Card-reader, Nvidia graphics, Intel wifi, stuff just worked… I bit boring actually… The only challenge was the fingerprint-reader and that quickly stopped being a challange after I discovered fprint , theres even a .dep in experimental. It integrates nicely in PAM.

I think the iwl module underperformes a bit, but rumor has it that it should be fixed in kernel 2.6.25 (which has just been released).

Bits and pieces…

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I have been a bad boy! I have chipped my xbox and installed a new dashboard and xbmc a really sweet mediacenter. It plays almost everything and it looks cool doing so!

Oh, and I’m leaving for Norway tomorrow, wont be back for a couple of weeks, see ya 🙂

Hardware faliure!

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times several thousand…

/dev/hda is one of the harddisks in my desktopmachine. I/O error means something is severely wrong. Spent most of yesterday trying to get backups before the bastard died completely, I think i succeeded. I have replaced the drive with a new 200 GB Maxtor series 10 and are creating a partitiontable right now. Then it is time to role the backup back on… Wish me luck!

Hothothot

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I’m not the only one with the opinion that it is allmost to hot, my server seems to think the same thing.
So I bought a fan, only to realize that there is no where to mount it in my cabinet. Now i’ve bought a dremel and I’m about to drill holes in my server… Four small ones and one really big one, wish me luck.

An update, the operation succeeded, I have drilled and cut and grinded my server and there are now several new holes in it.