Gav's World

My Gadgets

There's no getting away from it: I'm an electronic engineer and as such I have a fascination with gadgets, especially those that are powered by electricity. I always have and always will :-)

Hopefully I'll be able to maintain my constant stream of gadgetry and if there are any worth mentioning, then I'll knock up a page about them here.

Initially, I was just sharing my experiences with my Asus Eee PC 4G (701) and Asus Eee PC 901 where I'd been doing some hardware and software modifications to them. Since I cribbed information from various forums and web sites, I felt it only fair to pass my information back into the community - that's the whole ethos of Open Source after all.

Next up is my low power house server that is powered up 24/7. It is a Nano ITX motherboard that consumes no more than 25W.

Obviously, I also really need a higher power desktop PC for doing some serious work on ... or just surfing the web ;-)

What good is a gadget man with out a PDA? Well this one is a bit more special than most - a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200.

Naming My Computers

Being a bit of a geek and since my computers all run GNU / Linux ... they just have to be named.

Some people I know call their computers by malt whiskies, others by Scottish islands. I decided to go with Star Trek characters. My first PC was called "kirk" and when I upgraded it, the "next generation" of my desktop PC was naturally called "picard" As you may have noticed, my laptop is quite small, so it just had to be called "tribble" and my house server that does everything is called "data" :-)

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