Last night I upgraded bolan from Debian/arm to Debian/armel. The result: it's somewhat faster at floating-point stuff (apparently, encoding an mp3 is about ten times...

I've just been browsing various websites looking at motherboards and processors, in anticipation of actually having money to repair/upgrade [[boxen/daltrey]]. I was interested to see...

[John Goerzen][0] [agrees with something I've been saying for years][1]: that Windows hardware support is just plain bad. [0]: http://changelog.complete.org/ [1]: http://changelog.complete.org/index.php?url=posts/644-Linux-Hardware-Support-Better-Than-Windows.html -dons flameproof suit...

So, the Playstation 3's "Cell" processors are, basically, 64-bit PowerPC chips, similar to the ones in Apple Macs before 2006. What this, apparently, means is...

Random browsing led me to this page, showing the [first computer I ever used][0], an Amstrad PPC640 belonging to my dad, when I was about...

If you're looking for a pair of pretty good, nice-looking speakers (I hesitate to call them "PC speakers" since that reminds me too much of...

I've just ordered two NSLU2 network-attached storage doodads from Linksys, one for [Gem][1] and one for myself. These are dinky little ARM boxen that, with...

Okay, this is really bugging me. The NVidia driver is apparently so buggy that it's not possible to suspend while the module is loaded, which...

Apple's '"I'm a PC." "I'm a Mac."' adverts are really getting on my nerves now. The Mac is a personal computer, so when you're describing...

Just before Christmas, I decided that both my mobile phones (a Nokia 3510i and a Sony Ericsson T610 that I switched SIM cards between every...

For a while now I've been vaguely interested in starting a collection of different computers (running GNU/Linux or otherwise). I already have several Intel x86...

My new power supply arrived today. It’s ridiculously quiet; the loudest fan in my desktop/server is now the CPU fan (the hard drives are also...