Flavio's blog » hardware http://flavio.stanchina.net challenging common wisdom since he was 3 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Go, TomTom GO http://flavio.stanchina.net/2006/09/14/go-tomtom-go/ http://flavio.stanchina.net/2006/09/14/go-tomtom-go/#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:15:08 +0000 Flavio http://flavio.stanchina.net/?p=12 My father got a TomTom GO 510 as a gift. Interesting piece of hardware and it runs Linux, so there’s no way I’ll keep my hands off of the internals for long.

]]> http://flavio.stanchina.net/2006/09/14/go-tomtom-go/feed/ 0 Here comes the Sun http://flavio.stanchina.net/2006/03/05/here-comes-the-sun/ http://flavio.stanchina.net/2006/03/05/here-comes-the-sun/#comments Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:12:23 +0000 Flavio http://flavio.stanchina.net/?p=2 Yesterday I recovered two nice Sun Ultra 30 workstations (and one big Sun monitor) that were about to be thrown away at my office. They’re in quite good condition, apart from lots of dust and a cut keyboard cable. Apparently some smart guy thought that the quickest way to detach the keyboard was to cut the cable. In case you didn’t know, Sun keyboards have a small connector not unlike a standard PC keyboard or mouse, so just unplugging it certainly takes less effort than finding a cable cutter and applying the necessary force.

Of course I plan to install Debian GNU/Linux on at least one of them. In fact, I think I’ll put all the memory and both hard drives into one workstation and keep the other for parts.

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