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Netbook shopping

Jonathan Ng — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:43:47 +0000

Though both “nerdboys” have been out of school for quite some time we still marvel at “back to school” sales. Back in the day of course, “back to school sale” meant purely new pens, pencils and binders. (Back in the day, we also had to walk 5 miles to school, uphill both ways....) These days, it can mean new gadgets such as netbooks.

Case Mod How-To for the Alix Single Board Computer

Joe Kelly — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:14:55 +0000

In this article I present a how-to for doing a simple case mod for the Alix Single Board Computer (SBC). This case mod will allow you to easily swap out the compact flash card without having to open the case.

Tinyproxy on WRT54GS

Joe Kelly — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:21:00 +0000

I installed Tinyproxy 1.6.3 on my LinkSys WRT54GS router today. Following are some installation notes and comments about Tinyproxy.

My router currently runs the White Russian RC5 release of the OpenWrt Linux distribution. Tinyproxy is not yet an officially supported OpenWrt package. Rather, it is part of the “backports” package repository. To install Tinyproxy, I first had to add the backports repository to my repository list by adding the following line to my /etc/ipkg.conf file:

src backports

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Toshiba A100-SK4 – First Impressions

Joe Kelly — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:56:00 +0000

After months of begging, I finally bought my wife a notebook computer. It’s a Toshiba A100-SK4 (manufacturer’s part number: PSAA8C-SK400E). Here are the specs:

Processor: Intel Centrino Solo T1350 Processor Speed: 1.86GHz Screen Size: 15.4″ (wide screen) Screen Type: WXGA TFT With TruBrite RAM: 1GB DDR Hard Drive: 80GB Optical Drive: DVD Super-Multi Drive Graphics: 128MB (Shared) Intel GMA 950 Average Battery Life: Up to 3.5 Hours Battery Type: 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Cache: 32KB L1, 2MB L2 Fax/Modem: 56K V.92 I/O

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