A friend of mine just asked me for help with his new laptop. He wanted to try out Jaunty, but got stuck with a couple of show stoppers: no WIFI and no sound. The hardware is already supported in newer releases of ALSA and the Linux kernel, so 9.10 “Karmic” will probably run flawlessly with [...]

Lately I’ve been wanting to buy a netbook. I’m not an impulsive guy when it comes to buying new gadgets, so I have been postponing the moment. But having an unexpensive, semi-disposable system laying around can come in quite handy. I mention this because the time to buy is getting closer and closer, and yet [...]

Previously on UnixWars … I said in another post that I would be using a Thin Client as my home server. The machine is fanless, diskless and it makes no noise. The system boots from a low power Compact Flash. After setting things up, some friends decided to buy the exact same machine, so I’m [...]

Do you have a server at home running 24/7? Having permanent access to your home network can be very useful at times, as is sharing media and printers, or managing your downloads. My last server was actually a downgrade from my previous box in computing terms. It was no powerhouse, but being a fanless Epia [...]

It has been a while since my last post. Some rough month this has been, oh boy. Anyway, I wanted to let you know that we have released the new and improved Cherokee a couple of days ago. Since the project has advanced so much over the last months, we have decided to boost the [...]

Today is one of those nice days you stumble upon every now and then. Being a geek, you simply have to be happy when a processing monster like this arrives to your workplace. Yep. It is! Octality‘s first and very own Sun Fire 12000. Yes, I know it was recently retired by Sun, but still [...]

A couple of days ago I mentioned this in the post about extending libStargate for a class assignment we had. The team was formed by Miguel, Gonzalo and myself, and we received a pretty good grade, by the way. I wanted to write again after having some patches sent to the main author of libStargate [...]

In a previous post I mentioned that we would be playing around with a bot project to interface our Skypic board and the Wiimote as an assignment in class. Hacking these things has been fairly easy thanks to some pretty handy pieces of software we stumbled upon at IeaRobotics and a bit of Python magic. [...]

The other day as soon as I started Pidgin I received an IM from a friend of mine. It was something he wrote while I wasn’t online, so it popped up immediately. The sentence was “Hardware description languages turn me on“. Shocking, I know. But he is a geek. By now you shouldn’t be surprised [...]

Following up a post about the Wiimote, here is something interesting I stumbled upon. It’s also about cheap 3 axis accelerometers, only this time it isn’t about the Wiimote. It is about the Wii Nunchuk. Check this out! You can see the whole story at Hackaday. Although I’m not really used to hacking with circuits, [...]