I can’t pass up an interesting, cheap and small laptop. I’ll always have a use for them somewhere. Recently I’ve managed to pick up two Lenovos, and it’s interesting to see how varied and strange the laptops are from one another. They are both from the same manufacture, yet might as well be from completely…
Yearly Archives: 2015
In Search of Part 2: Linux on the Acer Switch 10 with Fedora 23
The amazing Fedlet release put together by AdamW let people easily install Linux Fedora on their BayTrail 32/64 tablets (64 bit CPUs but with 32bit FW). It was still somewhat buggy on my Acer Switch 10. Now that Fedora 23 is out I bit the bullet and did the upgrade to the latest packages… and…
Macbook
The MacBook is an incredible piece of engineering technology. This one is sitting on the MacBook Pro it’s replacing- after three years. 13†vs 12†and it’s more powerful and has more storage. The same amount of ram however. The size difference is astonishing…
PDP-11/70 CPU core and SoC :: Overview :: OpenCores
Fig D-1: A PDP-11/70 Console. These display and switch consoles were the hallmark of the PDP-11 computers in the 70ties. Picture courtesy of Henk Gooijen, see also Henk’s PDP-11 collection. The project contains a complete DEC PDP-11 system: a PDP-11/70 CPU with memory management unit, but without floating pointunit, a complete set of mass storage…
Amazon.com : Aspire Switch Laptop $139
Amazon.com : Acer 10.1″ Aspire Switch Laptop 2GB 32GB | SW5-012-192E (Certified Refurbished) : Computers & Accessories Amazon has a refurb 32GiB Switch 10 for just $139: Source: Amazon.com : Acer 10.1″ Aspire Switch Laptop 2GB 32GB | SW5-012-192E (Certified Refurbished) : Computers & Accessories And the 64GiB is $199…
Switch 10 CPU
The Switch 10 uses the Intel® Atomâ„¢ Processor Z3735F which has 4 cores, is 64 bit and and can burst up to 1.8Ghz. It’s part of the Silvemont family.     …
Products (Formerly Bay Trail)
Products (Formerly Bay Trail) comparison chart and links to detailed product features and specifications. Source: Products (Formerly Bay Trail)…
The Bitcoin Blocksize: A Summary – Rusty Russell’s Coding Blog
Source: The Bitcoin Blocksize: A Summary – Rusty Russell’s Coding Blog…
In Search of… Linux on the Switch 10 2-in-1
Remember that Acer Switch 10 that I purchased back almost a year ago, in 2014? I returned it to Amazon, but it’s taken ages for interesting (and cheap) Broadwell devices to trickle out and I’m not going to spend $700 plus for something like this. Meanwhile the Switch 10 was popping up again and again…
Mac ADSL OmniGraffle Stencil
I’ve always loved OmniGraffle, and I’ve always loved the simple lines of the Mac ADSL Stencil. I don’t like Graffletopia and paying for free stencils. I finally found the original location for the MacADSL stencil…. it’s here:  http://www.macadsl.com/actu/network-stencil-omnigraffle-macadsl  It’s so old it’s still a .sit file, so I’m attaching a .zip here so…
Stop Safari from showing Annoying Frequently Visited Sites
This is way, super annoying. Every time I want to drag a site down into the bookmarks this gets in the way. http://apple.stackexchange.com…
Mac OSX 10.10 and SCSI
Update 2017: 10.12 – Sierra broke the SCSI drivers and so ends the tales of SCSI and Atto on my Mac. Nothing I could do could get them to load. At some point I’ll revert the Mac back to 10.11 and use the SCSI if I ever need to read any of my tapes. Update:…
Apple Mini Yosemite Super Laggy – Fix
My mini is a 2011 i5 with Radeon graphics. Most of my work is on an external rail via thunderbolt, but the system has always been a little laggy to me. I work on Macbook pros and MacBook Airs (new, with flash drives) at work, and the mini has never been as quick and responsive…