https://www.davehall.com.au/tags/hardware/Recent content in Hardware on Dave Hall ConsultingHugoen-auThu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/02/20/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-licensing-and-gpl/Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/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. The MBWE seemed like a good option, it runs GNU/Linux, it is hackable and there is a bit of a community around it. I got the thing home and started setting it up through the web GUI so I could enable SSH and NFS on it, until I hit the EULA.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/02/10/flakey-bios-gigabyte-ga-m68sm-s2l-makes-mac-address-change-reboot/Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/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. Everything went pretty smoothly. One issue I did hit was the onboard NIC on the Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2L motherboard despite what the specs say it is a “nVidia Corporation Unknown device 054c (rev a2)” which uses the forcedeth driver. Everytime I rebooted the box the NIC would increment its interface number - eth0, eth1 … eth6 and so on.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/11/20/selling-sun-fire-t2000/Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/11/20/selling-sun-fire-t2000/I finally listed my Sun Fire T2000 which I won from Sun on eBay. If you are in the market for an almost new Sun Fire T2000, checkout the listing on eBay. If it doesn’t sell, I will be looking at other options for off loading it. It is overkill for my home office, and too noisy. To keep sweet with the eBay terms of service, I can only accept offers via eBay until the auction has ended.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/05/26/os-x-and-macs-windows-killer/Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/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. Personally, I think that Mac OS X is an interesting platform. The mac hasn’t grabbed me. On the up side, OS X (and Darwin) is based on BSD, so it has some good security foundations, it also uses many tools common to Linux, such as bash and CUPS.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/03/27/linux-better-environment/Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/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. The story quotes a Californian Department of Commerce report. The recommendation of using Linux and FOSS in government is hardly surprising, many governments around the world have been reaching the same conclusions. The interesting part is the environmental angle. I have always liked the lower resource requirements for Linux based solutions.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2006/11/22/sun-sunfire-t2000-rev2-and-ubuntu-dapper-6-06/Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/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 73.4G Seagate SAS HDDs. The 2U case hides the power hidden away inside. Once powered up it sounds like a jet engine, but that is OK it is designed for the data center not a HTPC.