Ok, I decided to change my computer a couple of months right now. But as Intel is doing some strange stuffs with the prices, this took a little longer than exepected. Some friends asked me what I bought, so I decided to write this post.
My new box description:
CPU: Intel Q6600 Quad Core at 2.4Ghz (G0 [...]
admin October 21st, 2007
I have for a long time now, a Asus P2BD motherboard with 2 PII 350 on it. After googling a bit, I discover that I can put 2 Katmai PIII at 600Mhz on this board.
I have been looking at eBay for a while, I bought a pair of matched CPUs. Today, I received them. After [...]
admin December 9th, 2005
Like a lot of users, i get an issue with my fan on the Shuttle Xpc. In fact, i found a lot of comments over the net, that Shuttle used some bad fan in this boxes. Some users decide to use the waranty, but i don’t want to send this back to Paris, just to [...]
admin April 17th, 2005
Why this soundcard allow me to play 2 mp3 at the same time while this doesn’t.. Hum good question. In fact to support this kind of stuff the sound card should support have some sub-device, to be sure .. simply aplay -l
Here on my shuttle .. not working
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card [...]
admin February 9th, 2005
Yes, i get another notebook on my desk. In fact, i buy a Sony Vaio K155S for a uncle. I won’t publish a long post about installing Linux on this, because he will use Windows XP. I spend some hours to install several things: OpenOffice, WinSCP, Mozilla etc etc ..
This notebook run really smoothly, it [...]
admin August 28th, 2004
Hardware
The Shuttle STK62K is a small XPC that use:
ATI IGP9100 video board
ATI IXP150 AC’97 Audio Controller
OHCI based USB 2
Realtek network card
As i run into different issue with that box, i decided to write a little howto. Look here for more infos
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies [...]
admin July 2nd, 2004
My K7S5A motherboard (w/ a Athlon on) burn on fire last week. I don’t know why, when i come back home (after work), i found a blanc screen, try to reboot but nothing.. Damm
I looked a this closer yesterday.. and yes some chipset on the motherboard have burn .. So i need to buy another [...]
admin June 27th, 2004
This is a quick introduction to the Linux suspend to disc on Dell Inspiron / Latitude. This tips should work on Inspiron 3800 to 8200, and Latitude C serie. (all phoenix bios shipped w/ a Dell computer in fact)
There is two kind of suspend in APM:
suspend to disc
suspend to RAM
Suspend to RAM:
This is the easier [...]
admin March 22nd, 2004
I take a long time to write a article on the howto install a debian on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. I submitted to www.linux-on-laptops.com/ a couple of weeks ago..
And no answer, not added yet .. i chat w/ another guy last week, and he has the same trouble.. but this is far more old [...]
admin March 18th, 2004