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The Mesh Potato

December 1st, 2009 by David Rowe in


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Use Bug Labs' modular, open-source system for building devices and find out what you can do with a fully integrated device development platform.
Is portability or performance king when it comes to laptops? Read below to find two Linux geeks' opposing viewpoints on the matter.
It runs Linux, has a GPS, camera, motion detector and color touchscreen—and it's completely hackable!
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Hacking the Eee PC

April 1st, 2008 by Jes Hall in

How to tweak your Eee PC.
The demands of parallel processing may be met more easily in a language we already know.
The present and future of high-performance computing.
Tired of x86? See what Linux on Itanium, Sun T1 or POWER5 can do!

The Ultimate Linux Laptop

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EmperorLinux's Raven X60, take your victory lap! Smart innovations vault a compact yet powerful machine over the bar.
The Nokia N800 starts off the N-series of Linux handhelds with an indisputable winner.
We packed unbelievable power in a tank case and added all the trimmings for less than $4,000.
Discovering local artists through Zeroconf.
Creating an unattended, encrypted, redundant, network backup solution using Linux, Duplicity and COTS hardware.
Linux-based robots are tricky to create, but Michael Surran's Robotics class found out it can be done.
The Ultimate Multimedia Center actually slides in under a million dollars.
Start with the ultimate AMD64 motherboard and build on it to create a masterpiece of your own.
Puget Custom Computers packs a lot of power into our Ultimate Linux Desktop.
Turning the pages of this magazine makes more noise than this year's Ultimate Linux Box does.
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December 2009, #188

If last month's Infrastrucuture issue was too "big" for you then try on this month's Embedded issue. Find out how to use Player for programming mobile robots, build a humidity controller for your root cellar, find out how to reduce the boot time of your embedded system, and if you're new to embedded systems find out the basics that go into one. You can also read about the Beagle Board, the Mesh Potato and a spate of other interestingly named items. And along with our regular columns don't miss our new monthly column: Economy Size Geek.







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