July 12 2010 by
boom in
Linux |
For my mom’s birthday I put together a small barebones machine to replace her computer of 7 to 8 years. The barebones consisted of a Foxconn R10-S4 housing a Dual-Core Intel Atom 330 CPU, 2GB Kingston DDR2 RAM, 250GB WD Caviar Blue HDD, and a LG DVD Burner. The machine is running 32-bit Archlinux with Gnome as the primary desktop using only 100-200MB of RAM after logging into the desktop environment with no custom kernel of any sort. I would recommend this machine for any student that needs to do basic computing such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, checking email, surfing the web, and watching YouTube videos.
July 10 2010 by
boom in
Audio |
One of the best pieces of audio equipment that I have ever used was a small computer with a 1Ghz Via C7 CPU, 1GB ram, 250GB hdd, M-Audio 1010LT Delta audio card, Windows XP Pro, with Adobe Audition 3. This little machine could record up to 10 analog devices at once and never lag once; it was mostly used to record 2 to 3 church services every Sunday. It is now retired and runs Archlinux running a Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory server.
As I sit here customizing my Desktop I realize that the one thing that is so hard to please me is my wallpaper. On my MacBook Pro I use Desktoptopia which is ok since it changes the wallpaper for me every 10 minutes and a lot of the wallpapers are great. On my Archlinux machine I can’t use Desktoptopia, so I go to deviantArt which I have found many great wallpapers. If you have that problem finding the right wallpaper and use Microsoft Windows or OS X, then Desktoptopia is right for you. If you use Linux, there is a program called Wally. Wally is more customizable and less system resource dependant than Desktoptopia and it is available for OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.