So HP is getting in on the high density compute node game. And looking at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_servers/ they are doing it with a twist : use ARM chips. That being beside the point, I think these would make for fanta… more »

I've now had the SSD in my laptop for about 10 days. Its made a massive difference to the way I work. Its striking as to how much of a difference having this extra performance in the laptop would make. In march I upgraded the memory on this laptop fr… more »

Sony has announced that the next ps3 firmware update - 3.21 - will no longer support the ability to install and run linux on your ps3's. You can read the full announcement here : http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/28/ps3-firmware-v3-21-update/ Th… more »

Posting this, since a fair few people seem to have asked about it on the internet but no-one really had an answer. If you are looking to add a optical media drive ( CDRom / DVDRom etc), just keep in mind that its a conventional atapi slimline drive t… more »

By default md-raid will limit its operations to 200000k/sec - which is plenty for most desktop and 2 - 3 disk machines, but when you have more than 3 - 4 disks and there is enough cpu and i/o bandwith available, it makes sense to increase that limit.… more »

Got a WDC WD50 disk, and a usb caddy, to use as a portable backup / mass storage unit. Got it setup, powered it up. First reaction : wow this thing is quiet. In a nice way. The disk its replacing is a 3 year old Hitachi 60GB. While the Hitachi seems… more »

This via Hampus : HP seems to now have a support pack, specific to CentOS for their ProLiant servers. Look at : ProLiant Support Pack for CentOS 5 (i386 and x86_64) as an example. That's one form of endorsement! - KB more »

There will be about an hours downtime, starting at 1800 BST ( 1700 UTC ), for the entire karan.org build system and repository infrastructure. The public repo will not be affected. I am hoping to achieve : Upgrade the local network within the rac… more »

At work, my desktop machine is a dual opteron 250 machine built on a MS-9620 mother board ( http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8N_Master2-FAR ) and in the last few months the machine has become really loud - source of this tracked back… more »

# rpm --qf "%{name}.%{arch}\n" -qp hpacucli-8.0-14.noarch.rpm hpacucli.i386 # rpm -qpi hpacucli-8.0-14.noarch.rpm Name : hpacucli Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 8.0 Vendor: HP… more »

In case you didnt know already, the iPlayer now works with the PS3's built in web browser. Just fire up the webclient and point it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and things just work. Interestingly the UI is very different to what people see on their co… more »

So, I got someone a nice funky gizmo for his birthday. Even remembered to carry it with me when I went over for dinner with him, so he's quite excited and wants to try it out right away. Bits are assembled, power connected - and nothing happens. Turns ou… more »

Download ftp://ftp.dell.com/app/R84709.EXE Check it by running : "file R84709.EXE" it should return something like R84709.EXE: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit unzip the file by running : " unzip R84709.EXE". Which sh… more »

So I have this Seagate 7200.11 500GB sata drive that's sort of died on me. Smartctl says Failed and pretty much anything that touches the drive returns 'Media failure' messages from the kernel. Next step I guess is to RMA the thing back to Seagate. But t… more »

Does anyone have a Lirc ( http://www.lirc.org/ ) compatible remote they would like to recommend ? - KB more »

So everyone seems to be talking about the Optimus Maximus Keyboard. Yes, its the one where the keytops change their display and you can customise the key's etc. Wow sounds good. Except it seems that someone missed the memo : Most people who use keyboards… more »

I've got one of these machines, running CentOS-5/i386 : processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 10 model name : VIA Esther processor 1200MHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 1197.077 cac… more »

So how does this work then.... Xmas is over and gone, most of the sales have now lost steam and most people are counting their debts. However, Nintendo still does not have *any* stock at all, for either the Wii or the DSLite consoles in the UK. I mea… more »

After thinking about it and actually looking at both the devices, there really wasent anything in it. I already have a very functional, light and proper laptop so the eeepc wasent really going to replace that. The n810 on the other hand is much smaller,… more »

What would it be then, the Nokia n810 ? or the Asus EEE pc ? Both look as if they are trying to hit the same sort of demographic, except the EEE seems to be more of a machine, and the n810, pretty much everything else except its not a PC and the screen i… more »

Just looking for recommendations for webcams that justwork with linux ( specially centos-5 ). So if you are using a webcam at the moment, do drop me a line and recommend something. Also, I really dont need a network aware camera, dont have that much m… more »

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Because I cant go out to buy one of these : {big ass SCSI drives}, I got myself one of these {big ass IDE drive in a USB2 Enclosure}. Now the tricky bit - the enclosure has no form of cooling, except for the fact that its made out of some super heat cond… more »

If you are looking for dell userland stuff, take a look at this : http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/ --Karanbir Singh more »

I've always had an issue with laptops in the plane - either there isnt enough space to actually get productive, or the guy sitting in front will recline so far back that there isnt even room to even open the laptop in front of you. One solution that w… more »