Category Archives: Hardware
MacBook Air insides
The MacBook Air is lovely, but could use a bit more disk-space. Looks like the 5mm 1.8″ drive in the 1st generation product doesn’t come in larger capacities than 80GB. Ifixit and AnandTech have illustrations of the insides.
Dell shipping PCs with Linux
I spotted on Ubuntu‘s news-section that Dell finally have commenced shipping products (1 desktop, 1 notebook) with Ubuntu. Available in UK, Germany and France. Excellent!
Deathstar drives
PCWorld’s list of crappy products reminded me of how terrible the 75G IBM Deskstars were. I had 2 of them go south on me…
Megaraid PERC2/SC drivers for RHEL (and CentOS) Linux
Dell (and LSI) retracted support for the 466 Megaraid SCSI RAID card driver (megaraid2) in the current Redhat kernels. As I use Redhat-derived CentOS for my production servers this is a royal pain.
Philips ToUCam II Pro (PCVC840K)
I want one of these CCD webcams, and I think I’ll be getting it from QVC as their price is substantially lower than anyone else selling them online!