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SheevaPlug: A $100 Linux wall-wart like appliance

Marvell Semiconductor is shipping a hardware/software development kit suitable for always-on home automation devices and service gateways. Resembling a "wall-wart" power adapter, the SheevaPlug draws 5 Watts, comes with Linux, and boasts completely open hardware and software designs, Marvell says.

Designed from the ground up to simplify the management of digital media assets, the Marvell plug computer [...]

Upgrading to the latest dd-wrt firmware version

If you’re one of those who braved to install DD-WRT and is at lost on how to upgrade to the latest version, then this is for you. You can check your current installed version on the upper-right side of your router’s web-interface. The latest version is v24-sp1.

First of all, what is DD-WRT?

DD-WRT is a third party [...]

EeeNAS PC: Low power, low noise multimedia capable home storage server

ASUS unveiled a suite of easy-to-use Eee solutions at this year’s Cebit. ASUS had each area covered with an incredibly innovative Eee product. One of this product is EeeNAS PC.

The EeeNAS PC is a two Terabyte (2TB) Network-Attached Storage (NAS) solution mated to a PC. It is the perfect platform for storing, backing up and sharing [...]

ARM enters the Netbook market, demo’s slim Linux low-power prototypes

The UK chip company ARM is preparing to make its move into the netbook market. It has shown off a few prototype designs that really show off the benefits of using the ARM platform.

Some of the major plus points of the ARM platform are

passive cooling thereby eliminating the need for fans,
enabling ARM Netbook to be [...]

Nokia N810: Linux powered Internet Tablet (3rd Gen)

Everybody is talking about iPhone nowadays, with its sleek and smooth UI. It is such a cool phone….but not perfect. Limited applications, no 3G, disappearing SMS are some of its shortcomings. Let Apple kink out the details and wait for the 2nd Gen, for now I’m eyeing for the Nokia N810. A nice companion for my [...]

Low power personal/home storage server

 

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Well…well, look who entered the personal storage arena.

VIA just launched the ARTiGO A2000, a compact low power consumption barebones storage server ideal for building your own DIY NAS. Supporting two desktop hard drives, this unique barebone storage system is a perfect fit for home download applications, providing ample storage [...]

List of Intel Atom Single/Dual Core Compatible Motherboards

 

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I am currently planning to replace my 2 year-old VIA Nehemiah-based home server which so far is quite stable. It is currently functioning as a 24/7:

Samba file server
FTP server with web front-end
Web server (hosting my test projects)
SSH tunnel
torrent client/server
squid proxy for local caching
and [...]

DirectX Issue: Setup could not download the file. Please retry later or check network connection.

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Have you experienced this error during DirectX installation?

Setup could not download the file. Please retry later or check network connection.

After clicking download and have selected the file save destination or have selected "run", it will start to initialize and then just stops and the message pop’s everytime you [...]

DDNS bug in DD-WRT when using the pre-set DynDNS settings

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DD-WRT provides a set of predefined configurations for the most common DDNS services. This makes updating easy.  After choosing from one of the predefined DDNS services, you just need to provide the "User Name" and the "Password" for the account of your DDNS service. In the "Host Name" field, you have to enter the [...]

DD-WRT: How to update multiple host names registered at your DDNS service

Technorati Tags: dd-wrt,dyndns,ddns,automatic IP update

Since DD-WRT v23-SP2, brainslayer, the creator/maintainer of DD-WRT, decided to replace ez-ipupdate with inadyn used for resolving WAN IP for DDNS reporting.

INADYN is a free DynDNS  client. It gives the possibility to have your own fixed hostname registered on the internet, although your IP might be changing. It checks periodically whether the [...]