Tag: hardware

Arch Linux server maintenance page

You may look at the title and wonder why I didn’t post this topic under “Computers” or even the “Linux” subtopic. My reasoning is that this isn’t really any type of discussion relating to computers, but rather just an image that I found to be priceless. Instead of just making their “server down for maintenance” …

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NC10

As a quick update, I am writing this entry from my Samsung NC10. After many months of fiddling with various things, I have finally gotten a working Gentoo installation using Openbox as my window manager. I really enjoy this minimalistic environment, especially on this netbook given that it only has a 1024×600 native resolution. Thus, …

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Great computer satire

Hello all, I found this funny and satiric article about the new trend amongst computer enthusiasts: underclocking. http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/07/underclocking.html Although there are several ways to underclock a computer (including setting the RAM timings lower than rated and decreasing the clock cycles of the CPU), the best way is not hardware related at all. You simply have …

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