Christopher Fikes » Hardware http://chris.fikesmedia.com Technologist | Geek | Open Source Enthusiast Wed, 25 May 2011 21:10:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Looking for new hardware. http://chris.fikesmedia.com/2009/06/10/looking-for-new-hardware/ http://chris.fikesmedia.com/2009/06/10/looking-for-new-hardware/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:09:51 +0000 cfikes http://chris.fikesmedia.com/?p=19 I know what exactly what I want, and thats the problem. I want a netbook/laptop with a 10-12 inch screen with a screen resolution of at least 1280×800. Here is the kicker, 2 gig of ram or more. I found a perfect machine, the Dell Mini 10. Has the screen, but Dell freakin soldered in the memory, and at only 1 gig. I’m sure this is because of Microsofts idea that netbooks should not have more than a gig of memory if they are going to run XP. Well, thanks a lot Dell/Microsoft. Some people do not want to run XP, or any of your platforms for that matter.

If you know of a netbook that meats this requirement, please email me. I need a new one. My Hp 2133 just stinks with Fedora 11 on it. Thanks VIA for the “open” drivers.

]]> http://chris.fikesmedia.com/2009/06/10/looking-for-new-hardware/feed/ 0 My New Toy http://chris.fikesmedia.com/2009/06/09/my-new-toy/ http://chris.fikesmedia.com/2009/06/09/my-new-toy/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:58:10 +0000 cfikes http://chris.fikesmedia.com/?p=12 marvell-shevaplug

ShevaPlug Developement Kit

And yep, it runs Linux. Ships with a version of Ubuntu 9.04, but you bet I am putting Fedora ARM on there. Thanks guys for the awesome ARM release. I will keep you posted on the toys I build with this.

More info:  GlobalScale Technologies

]]> http://chris.fikesmedia.com/2009/06/09/my-new-toy/feed/ 0