Category: Hardware

Philips offers new audio toys. Based on WiFi (802.11b) technology, you can now listen directly to Internet stream and/or MP3! Philips Consumer Electronics

Hmmm… Do you expect to reach 100Mbits with such hack? 🙂

Why loose time to install hardware in a specific case? It can be so “design” 😉 Index of /tmp/fucking_l33t_configs

A crazy project: setup a backup solution based on harddisks instead of classical tapes… 576 x 160GB drives! 70 TB Backup RAID at the University of Tübingen” href=”http://www.tomshardware.com/newsletter/vol3/16/70tb.html”>Tom’s Hard News weekly email newsletter Vol III/No. 16 – Hard Drives Instead of Tapes?70 TB Backup RAID at the University of Tübingen

Cisco Systems announce the support for syslog messages sent in a XML format! Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.2 T XML Interface to Syslog Messages – Cisco Systems

Modems, printers, mouses, keyboards, screens, digital cameras… More and more devices are now USB compliant… Still one was missing… Our Japanese friends did it: keep your coffie at the right temperature via USB! A “must-have” for network/sysadmin who drink coffie all the day 🙂 —DCT-NETEHome Page—

The power… This is the main issue in lot of embedded applications! Batteries are the most important part of portable device. Some researchers developed a brand new system: the smallest fuel processor ever which can deliver electricity from liquid fuels such as butane, jet fuel, diesel, … Think Small When

The CF slot (“Compact Flash”) found on more and more PDAs seems to be the latest gadget for (un)usuful extensions: After memory extensions, GPS, Wifi, Webcams, now … the FM radio! 🙂 http://www.prolink.com.tw/english/products/PDA/FM201.htm

Nice new toy: a Bluetooth modem/fax connected to your classic phone line. Then it’s used as a dialer when some other Bluetooth enable devices connect to it. http://www.billionton.com.tw/english/product/bt56r.htm

LanTronix presents a complete web server solution (OS, http server, IP stack) embedded in a simple RJ-45 connector! This will reduce the cost of datacenters room space 🙂 Commander X – LANTRONIX, Inc.