Cheap Computing: The “DecTop”
Do you remember AMD’s effort to populate the world with cheap PCs? Well, AMD ultimately stopped manufacturing their “PIC” (a.k.a the Personal Internet Communicator) machine themselves, but handed the...
View ArticleUbuntu (Dapper) on the PC Engines Alix 3D1
The Alix 3D1 is a small PC with an LX700 AMD Geode cpu. It costs $75 USD and can, with enough patience, run just about any mainstream Linux OS that you can think of. That is thanks to the AMD Geode...
View ArticleAndroid SDK – $25 and an hour later
If you’ve ever had an inkling to get into mobile software development, now is your time. Google has drastically narrowed the gap for wanna-be mobile developers to get into this arena with their...
View ArticleSetting-up an APRS iGate and Digipeater in Linux
As a long time Amateur Radio Operator (callsign: KB8MON), I recently explored more into APRS, the Automatic Packet Reporting System. This interest was driven by another interest in High Altitude...
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