The droid I’m looking for: The $129 Moto E
On Tuesday, Motorola announced the Moto E, a new low-end, $129 phone. Sporting a dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU, a single-core GPU, 1 GB of RAM, and a micro SD slot for expandability, it’s a modest phone for...
View ArticleThrottling the Raspberry Pi
If you run the Raspberry Pi as a small server, you may want to throttle the CPU when it’s not under load to save energy. The settings are in /boot/config.txt. Here’s what I did with mine. The lines I...
View ArticleBeware the Black Friday electronics
Ars Technica ran an aptly timed article today called How to talk your family out of bad consumer electronics purchases. It’s definitely worth a read. There’s a great tip in the article. If a doorbuster...
View ArticleHappy late 50th birthday, z/OS!
It was 50 years ago this month that IBM released the first modern mainframe, the System/360. The System/360 was notable for being the first series of systems built with interchangeable parts, rather...
View ArticleYou might need a new router
Last week the New York Times, of all places, wrote a nice article about routers. If your wi-fi at home is bad, they say, think about picking up a TP-Link Archer C7 router. A longtime friend asked me a...
View ArticleWhat to look for in a performance SSD
The Register has a nice writeup on performance SSDs. The only problem is that performance is really a matter of diminishing returns, and The Reg didn’t report on random I/O. The problem we run into is...
View ArticleHappy 20th birthday to Windows 95
It was on August 24, 1995 that Windows 95 was released, amidst much anticipation. It was the most widely anticipated Windows release of all time, and the runner up really isn’t close. The idea of...
View ArticleNeed a Commodore motherboard? Believe it or not you’re in luck
Individual Computers is working on, of all things, a replacement Amiga motherboard that will fit in an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 case. The board will use the AGA chipset that the Amiga 1200 used, but the...
View ArticleTP-Link TL-WR840n vs TL-WR841n
If you need an inexpensive DD-WRT compatible router, TP-Link is probably your best choice. But there are some big differences when you compare the TL-WR840n vs the TL-WR841n. I’ve been running the...
View ArticleA 960 GB SSD for $188
If you’re in the market for a 960 GB SSD but you’ve been waiting for a deal, here’s one that’s been worth waiting for: an A-Data SP550 for $188. It’s remarkable only for the price, but what a price....
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