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With where it seems to be located in your room, I probably wouldn't bother with front USB, just bring a few extensions from the back over to where the monitor is at the desk. If you use a DVD rom that little, you could pick up a cheap USB enclosure and bring it out when you need, and store it in...

Even if there isn't going to be a native version of Steam, it works quite well with the current versions of WINE. You'll have to check individual games for compatibility, but I played through Portal shortly after it was a free add to Steam. ATI/AMD's support of Linux is supposed to be better...

The Gnome System Monitor can display all those as graphs. Right click on it, choose preferences and check the boxes for what you want a graph for. For simple up/down network transfer indication I use the NetworkManager Applet.

Yeah, unless you're only a few megs into swap, having the app not take up all the physical RAM, and then some, would be the best bet. If it is a few megs, try changing the swappiness setting to reduce what's cached.

If you're looking for something in the netbook size, but not necessarily price, the Fujistsu Lifebook P1630 is an expensive option. Older P16XX models with Core Solos or Pentium Ms go for around $500 on eBay.

Couldn't you just append the filename to the output? Sounds like a job for perl if you really need to read a log backwards.

Actually that is the new 'PowerBoost' thing they've implemented, you only get that speed for a couple of seconds when starting a file downloading. There should of been some marketing BS about it that came with your last bill, or bill before last telling you about it. Supposed to help on video...

I don't know any good stand-alone TV watching programs, perhaps someone else will know. MythTV will let you watch live TV, as well as play emulators and surf the web, but is much more oriented to record TV and change your system into a media center PC. It looks like your board is pretty much...

A livecCD will run, but be pretty slow with only 384MB of RAM, and I'm betting the DVD isn't particularly fast either. Some distros will let you save settings and programs on a thumbdrive when running a LiveCD.

I think installing the thumbdrive image of DSL to a USB connected box with your laptop's hd in it will work. If not, there's the roundabout way of installing DOS to the drive, and then using loadlin to start DSL(this is how I have it on my Toshiba Libretto).

Running Ubuntu 9.04 with the closed source NVidia drivers, and the only Adobe Flash trouble I have is that some more intensive Flash games (I.E. Darkorbit) and some HD streams (and the rare Hulu 360p) don't play well by default because Speedstep isn't reacting to their load. With all three cores...

I found a couple of boards that support AM3 and dual x16 slots (physically, same chipset as DFI): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153152 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153142 Does this chipset support hybrid crossfire? If they do, you can get a...

Did you try the Hardware Drivers manager? (Gnome menu -> System -> Administrator -> Hardware Drivers) Sometimes helps with video drivers not being setup correctly. I use NVidia in my system, so I can't help much more beyond that. It could be a 64-bit issue. If your chipset has 3D accel in the...

Problem is that the Ubuntu repositories don't keep up very well with faster updating emulators, like MAME.

There are now decoder cards out for netbooks that can handle up to 1080p (Dell and HP offer models with them, IIRC, and bit of hacking they can be added to other netbooks). Adobe has announced that they intend to add support for these cards, eventually, to handle HD playback in Flash.

In the Unix class I had a few years ago, we just telnetted into a Solaris box. Any Unix derivative should work fine, as all you're likely to be using is the terminal (think command line).

Try booting from the CD and choosing 'Check CD for defects'. It could be media troubles, reading drive troubles (I've had a not terribly old DVD burner start having trouble reading CD-Rs recently), or just a bad image.

Dual sided, and they plug into slots on memory cards that then plug into the motherboard. What's worse, there's still room for more. I can't remember if the model I have can take 768MB or a full Gig using the same density of RAM. Yep, 32MB per stick. Weird ECC EDO DIMMs, though, instead of...

I have a similar model and it has 512MB of ram across sixteen sticks of RAM.

11.6" screen? There's not much size difference between this and a regular notebook either. Now, a machine the size of the EEE PC 900 (9" screen with very little bezel) with ION and below $500 would be very tempting.

A netbook would certainly fit in that space. The EEE PC 900 --Celeron M 900MHz CPU, Linux model-- I have can boot in 30 seconds, and not much longer beyond that is needed to connect to a wifi router. I've seen the 4GB internal storage 1.6Ghz Atom EEE PC 900 go for around $150 in various...

An x86 will beat the Axim hands down for web browsing. With an x86 netbook you get a full desktop web browser with full Flash 9/10, Java, etc. support. True RISC is slower clock for clock than CISC. Additionally, x86 processors in netbooks have several times more cache on the processor and...

There shouldn't be too much difference between the performance of the Adobe Flash Player under Windows vs. Linux. The only time Linux could have a real advantage is if GNASH is being used instead, which pumps the video into mplayer (which is much more capable than Flash at playing back video)...

Setting the RAM speed is no trouble. I'm just a bit out of the loop when it come to the desktop parts world. I've been more focusing on the embedded and netbook world instead.

Sounds like you need to go the [H]ard route and find a keyboard that you like that has a numeric keypad and actually cut off the pad and do any necessary re-wiring to get it to work afterwards. Keyboards aren't that complicated internally, most keyboards have two membranes under the keys. You...

Decided on pretty much this set after reading the Bit-Tech review of Phenom II X3 series. Bumped the ram to 1066 DDR2 for $5 more, the drive linked went OOS so got another for about the same price, and went with a smaller hard disk to make it under $600 shipped. Thanks!

Wow, lots of stuff to look over and decide. Thanks for the suggestions.

Light gaming Web browsing (with Dark Orbit being the most intensive thing) $500-600 tax and shipping included, slightly variable if shipping/tax puts it a little over $600. Missouri Since I'm getting tired of Black cases, so I have my eye on this case: SIGMA ZEN ZEN-WAR alpine rain...

Well, that's disappointing. Hmm, now they have a compatible phone list at the bottom of the page that I either missed, or wasn't there before. Lists only: "HTC XV6900 / Touch on Sprint & Verizon" and "Motorola Q9C on Sprint & Verizon" Rather odd, you'd think it'd work on any WM platform...

http://pandora.com/on-windowsmobile?from_home=1 I haven't tried it out myself, as my phone is relatively dumb, and the only WM device I have is a non-Wifi Toshiba e350. I know at least one person on these forums was trying to get it to work, so I figured I'd post the news.

When playing around with this one, I slapped a 1MB ISA card into one of the 8-bit slots. I'll have to do that again (it got stuffed into a 486 afterwards, IIRC) if I decide to play with it anymore, as I lost the necessary cable to plug into the only CGA compatible monitor I have. :(

I finally got around to uploading some more pics. Here's a Pentium with a rather odd feature, it plays a tune at bootup: Here's the odder part, it's the heatsink that is playing the tune through the front speaker: Something more old-school, an XT clone from Leading Edge: Intel...

The Pandora Flash app is rather heavy on requirements. Last I tried on a low end PC, it all but maxed out 128MB of RAM, and you hit swap if you do anything else. The only handhelds I know of that can run Pandora from the Flash app are the Nokia N8x0 Internet Tablets. They have 128MB of RAM...

Does it have a SODIMM slot? Upgrading the RAM would be a huge help for web browsing.

Novell, but doesn't beat the versatility of x86. It seems pretty close to the size of the Philips Velo 1 H/PC I had at one point (but the keyboard looks a lot nicer on the 5MX). I need to upload pictures of my x86 stuff I've snapped pictures of recently; one plain-jane old IBM PII tower, one...

I'll get some pics of what I can find. I managed to unearth a Commodore 16 (not 64!) while moving stuff today. Since you all liked the Libretto, here's the first of many replacements beside it(clickable to see a bigger version or see more pics): Fujitsu Lifeook P1120--Transmeta Crusoe...

Tracfone is what I use, and would be an OK fit for your phone/text usage, if you're willing to dump data usage, though you can't use the Treo with it. Probably grabbing a 500 minute year card would take care of you for a while, or grab a 120 minute (90 days) card every couple of months...

The only pic of old compys up ATM is this one: Pentiium 166MMX, I think. a whopping 32MB of RAM, and 2GB harddisk. The only really impressive thing is that it's actually smaller than any of the current EEE PCs(at least in depth). I've got plenty of old PCs, and non-IBM clones. I suppose...

I forget how long ago it was that I switched to Linux exclusively, more than a year anyway, probably two years about. I did it cold, my Windows XP drive failed during a new computer build, but my Linux drive survived, and so did the OS (as in everything worked despite being installed on a...

I thought a new x86 emulator had made it onto the scene, but it turns out the user "gsagers" on the Internet Tablet Talk forums ported bochs. As for an Intel Atom competitor to the Pandora, it seems unlikely. Though, it'd be rather cool.