https://www.skwashd.net/tags/hardware/Recent content in hardware on Dave Hall (@skwashd)Hugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-20-western-digital-my-book-world-edition-licensing-and-gpl/Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-20-western-digital-my-book-world-edition-licensing-and-gpl/Earlier today I purchased a Western Digital My Book World Edition (MBWE) 1Tb NAS as I needed a simple NAS.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-02-10-flakey-bios-gigabyte-ga-m68sm-s2l-makes-mac-address-change-reboot/Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-02-10-flakey-bios-gigabyte-ga-m68sm-s2l-makes-mac-address-change-reboot/Over the weekend I have been setting my new Mythbuntu pair, a split back end and front end.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-05-26-os-x-and-macs-windows-killer/Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-05-26-os-x-and-macs-windows-killer/For the last week I have almost exclusively been using a PowerPC Mac - claimed by Apple to be a great platform just a few years a ago.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-03-27-linux-better-environment/Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-03-27-linux-better-environment/TechWorld has a story about how the UK government is recommending the adoption of Linux and FOSS as it better for the environment.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2006-11-22-sun-sunfire-t2000-rev2-and-ubuntu-dapper-6-06/Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2006-11-22-sun-sunfire-t2000-rev2-and-ubuntu-dapper-6-06/A couple of months ago I received a shiny new Sun SunFire T2000. It is a monster 1 CPU with 8 cores, each capable of running 4 threads each (that is 32 concurrent threads) 8G of RAM and 2 x 73.