Building a general-purpose computer means that you’ll have to take a lot of use cases into consideration, and while the end product might be useful for a lot of situations, it will inherently contain a lot of inefficiencies. On the other hand, if you want your computer to do one thing and do it very […]
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Western Digital Corp. , a global data infrastructure leader, is accelerating the NVMe transition of value-PC storage by adding an NVMe™ model to its award-winning WD Blue® solid state drive (SSD) portfolio, the WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD. The new SSD delivers three-times the performance of its SATA counterpart1 while maintaining the reliability the WD Blue product line
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Story Calin Crisan’s excellent motionEyeOS is a complete Linux distribution that turns the Raspberry Pi Zero into a highly functional wireless webcam. He provides detailed instructions for installation and configuration; some are referenced here. These instructions show how to use a gadget I designed called the Solar Pi Platter with a Pi Zero W to extend the capability of
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The SynthBerry Pi project consists of a stand-alone synthesiser which is capable of running patches created with Pure Data. Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette back in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works. Pd is an open-source project with a large developer base working on
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When people start talking about computing and throwing around big words I’m lost. Thankfully there are easy ways to keep up with the Jones’s. So, what is a server then? No, I’m not talking about those people who walk around in restaurants bringing us much needed wine and cake, although those do tend to be
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Pine64 has this week announced that a new HardROCK64 mini PC will be launching in a few months time during April 2020 offering an ARM-powered single-board computer priced from $35. Features of the mini PC include a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor, 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity and offering a Raspberry Pi alternative. Three configurations of
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KBox A-230-LS with SMARC-sAL28 offers up to five TSN-enabled 1GB Ethernet ports for IoT applications Kontron, a leading global provider of IoT/Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), has announced the KBox A-230-LS, a new compact industrial computer platform designed specifically for Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) applications. The KBox A-230-LS is equipped with a SMARC module based on the NXP
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If you need to make sure your computer isn’t being messed with, you’ll have a look at the log files. If something seems fishy, that’s grounds for further investigation. If you run a large network of computers, you’ll probably want to look over all of the logs, but you won’t want to run around to
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For all the retrocomputing fun and games we encounter in our community, there are a few classic microcomputers that rarely receive any attention. Usually this is because they didn’t sell well and not many have survived, or were simply underwhelming machines that haven’t gathered a huge following today. One that arguably falls within both camps
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Today, computers are separated into basically two categories: desktops and laptops. But back in the early 1980s, when this ideological line in the sand was still a bit blurry, consumer’s had a third choice. Known as “portable computers” at the time, and often lovingly referred to as luggables by modern collectors, these machines were technically small enough
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