If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?

Last December I bought an Epson Stylus Photo R300 inkjet printer, because it was on sale for under $80, and it can print directly onto printable CDs and DVDs. I didn’t actually get around to using it for that until just now. It works great!

Todd Michael Bailey, an embedded systems developer, uses a printed circuit board as his business card. He included a 3×10 grid of holes on tenth inch centers as a prototyping area. But he should have made it a 4×10 grid, so that it could be used for a DIP IC.

I upgraded the dual Opteron server (Tyan S2892 motherboard) from 2GB of RAM to 4GB, but the BIOS only finds 3GB of it. I’d put the memory on the second CPU. At first I thought perhaps one of the DIMMs wasn’t seated properly, so I reseated both. Still no go. Then [...]

I have a server machine in a colo facility. The facility provides carts with monitors, keyboards, and mice. The monitors are CRTs. Last night I changed the hardware configuration of a machine, and since I was having problems I needed to see the BIOS startup screen. However, these “smart” power-saving monitors [...]

For quite some time now I’ve wanted a color printer, especially one that can handle B-size paper (11 x 17 inches), and one that can print onto printable CD-R and DVD-R media. Traditionally CD-R printers have been very expensive, even though most of them are just modified consumer inkjet printers. I haven’t found [...]

S3 has just released their Chrome S27 graphics chip, and cards are starting to become available. This brings them back into a competitive position with ATI and NVidia.
ATI and NVidia will not open-source their drivers for X.org, the open-source X server used on most Linux systems, nor will they publish documentation allowing third-party drivers to [...]

I’m not sure who wrote this originally, but Rich Ries submitted it to Jack Ganssle’s Embedded Muse newsletter. Apparently there must have been some confusion over it, since it mistakenly appeared in the “Joke of the Week” section.
TOP TEN THINGS ENGINEERING SCHOOL DIDN’T TEACH YOU

There are at least 10 types of capacitors.
Theory tells you [...]

Some time back I tried to get a Griffin Technology radioSHARK working in Linux, but ran into USB problems. Now Michael Rolig has gotten it to work. Read on for my experience and suggestions.

For a while I’ve been using a Logitech Premium USB Headset 300 with Fedora Core 4 Linux on my desktop computer at home. I mainly use it for Skype, though I sometimes use it for games or movies. It didn’t require any configuration; I just plugged it in and it worked.
I unintentionally left [...]