Category: Hardware
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Fairphone operating system
While looking forward about obtaining one out of 25000 ethicaly made Fairphones through pre-order, which are announced for December, Fairphone has recently announced their own custom made Operating System, which will be based on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS. It will be designed by Kwamecorp. The main benefits of the new interface are: Edge Swipe:…
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Fairphone – the new alternative
Fairphone is an alternative campaign to create a mobile phone with a fair share of payments to everyone involved in the project. It begins with the lowest process, with mineral digging workers in People’s republic of Congo and Zambia, where Fairphone will pay them 6 usd/day, which is more than 3 times the amount that other…
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Utilite miniature embedded ARM computer
I was in search for a replacement miniature embedded system to serve as my home router and XBMC video platform. Currently serving this purpose is the pico-ITX form factor Raspberry PI. While RPI still uses older ARM CPU v6, the Utilite in the pro-version uses quad core Freescale i.MX6 ARM v7 Cortex A9 CPU running at 4 x 1.2…
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Donate to Replicant and support free software on mobile devices
The Replicant project is a fully free Android (replacement) distribution running on several mobile and tablet devices. It is sponsored from the Free Software Foundation which currently runs a fundraiser campaign to support this project. Donations to the fundraiser will enable developers to obtain new devices. Replicant is also looking for new developers to get involved…
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From Free Software to Hardware
In order to use free software successfully, we need more free (free as in freedom) hardware available. Because the computer industry requires lots of funds/investments into hardware design, many companies unfortunatelly mostly try to make their hardware proprietary. Therefore making it difficult for free software to run on them without restrictions. Here are some links…
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BGP on RPI
For the needs at my home, I use BGP on the little Raspberry PI embedded device acting as a router. Having a redundant connection ( in case of the failure on one link, another link takes over ). How is it possible ? I use the Raspbian GNU/Linux distribution, which has the required routing software called Quagga.
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Power line
I ordered a pair of Power line (PLC) (picture) TP-LINK TL-PA551KIT adapters. Intended use would be replacing Wi-Fi, therefore reducing latency and packet loss and enabling features like VoIP and multicast for IPTV streaming. Also it would not spoil the overall look in the apartment running cables under the ceiling to each room. Maximum classification is 500Mbps/s data transmission…
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Free as in Freedom
I have noticed that my blog doesn’t contain any detailed description about my view on Free Software, so for those people who come to my blog, and think it’s just another thing that computer oriented people like to use, I would like to explain my vision about that in a few words. Beside the philosophical…
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One Laptop Per Child
I got a chance to obtain the One Laptop Per Child computer. It is a XO-1. I have ordered it from California and currently blogging about it on my other OLPC related blog.
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VAXorcism for hobbyists
The owner of Slovenian company which worked with VAX/VMS has gifted me some vintage VAX workstations. They are MicroVAX 3100 and VAXstation 3100, which will join my collection of VAXstation 4000/90. They are being put on hold for the cold winter days, when I will use my time to play with them and upgrade them…
