I’ve got quite a few laptops laying around these days.  Every once and a while I get into a buying jag of surplus gear on EBay and bam suddenly the office is filled with a “like whoa” excess of something.
It’s cheaper than gambleing or drugs, okay?
*ahem* So, I”ve got one of the laptops up, rebuilt, […]

The semi-annual (these days, leastways) HOPE conference (Hackers Over Planet Earth? HOtel PEnnsylvania? Who knows!) is coming up and I’ll once again be working network setup. Which is generally a fairly good time…
I’m intent on impressing upon whoever does the wireless this year that those little antenna thingies? They go up […]

JMke over at Madshrimps shot me a quick note that the X1800GTO from ATI has a hack available to turn it into a X1800XL like card by freeing up an extra 8 pipelines or so. Normally I’d cover stuff like that over at PCBurn but unfortunately they don’t have a bloody Linux driver for […]

There’s nothing quite like deciding your peltier driven phased cooling kit just doesn’t have enough oomph anymore.  That’s just what this guy over at MadShrimps did, so he decided to rip it apart and make a few modifications for efficiency.
With a little re-engineering his old kit was made new, and now it’s freezing even the […]