Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Friday, November 30th, 2007
I recently bought a new notebook (Sony TZ27GN, which is awesome by the way :D), and something that immediately annoyed me is the sensitivity of the touchpad -- so many times I would accidentally "click" while dragging across the touchpad.
So I disabled this feature. Here's how, running Ubuntu Linux:
Posted in Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu, Hardware, Linux, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Today I installed and configured FreeBSD 6.2 on a Soekris Engineering net5501 (which was purchased by mail order from Yawarra Information Appliances in Victoria, who have been very helpful). It will be functioning as an office firewall/gateway. This particular unit has a 433MHZ AMD Geode Integrated Processor and 256MB of ...
Posted in Embedded systems, VMWare, Software, Tips and Tricks, Operating Systems, Hardware, FreeBSD | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Following the death this afternoon of a (somewhat critical) FreeBSD 4 machine here in the office, I hurriedly swapped the hard disk out of it's original machine (a white-box Pentium 4 of some description which hangs every few minutes) in to the first available "spare" machine I found; a single ...
Posted in Hardware, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | 2 Comments »
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
The Dell Poweredge SC440 is an entry level "tower" server designed for small business environments. We have a couple of these in the rack in the office now, they're quite decent machines -- decently priced and well featured.
Operating system support is generally good, it supports Linux out of the box ...
Posted in Dell, Ubuntu, Hardware, Linux, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | 2 Comments »
