The picotux 100 is the world’s smallest Linux computer, only slightly larger (35mm×19mm×19mm) than an RJ45 connector. Inside, there is an ARM7 CPU at 55 MHz running uClinux kernel 2.4.27 and Busybox 1.0.

Two communication interfaces are provided, 10/100 Mbit half/full duplex Ethernet and a serial port with up to 230.400 baud. Five additional lines can be used for either general input/output or serial handshaking.

Just a quick post to announce that all sites under evaria.com, including this blog, will be down for “maintenance” as of this afternoon.

WHY?

My brother is upgrading/replacing the drives (hard disks) which means I will get more storage space He estimates it’s going to take between 2-3 hours to copy all files on to the new drives if all goes well.

Fingers crossed…

Finally Gamer’s Wishes Come True for those of us using the laptop / notebook:

“NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPU Comes to Notebooks”

World’s Fastest Notebook GPU Brings DirectX 10 HD Gaming to Mobile Gamers

Nvidia announced yesterday (Nov 19th) the immediate release of the new 8800 series for laptops fully capable of running new games like “Unreal Tournament 3″ fantastically even at HD resolutions of 1920×1200.

In addition to serving as the core of a great, notebook gaming platform, the NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series GPUs feature the NVIDIA PureVideo® HD engine for superior quality playback of HD DVD, Blu-ray, and HD movie downloads. The GeForce 8M Series also contain NVIDIA’s PowerMizer® * technology that intelligently balances battery life and performance.

The GeForce 8800M-series consists of 2 products, 8800M GTX and 8800M GTS. Only the number of Stream Processors seams to separate the models “on paper”.

AMD Unleashes Enthusiast Gaming Performance for the Masses with ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series

Incredible performance per watt and scalability with never before seen price points put enthusiast-class gaming in reach of all users.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — November 15, 2007 –AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the introduction and immediate availability of the ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series of graphics processing units (GPU). As the world’s first series of graphics processors to deliver Microsoft’s DirectX® 10.1 support, 55nm process technology and tri and quad multi-GPU support with ATI CrossFireX™, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series ushers in a new era of enthusiast gaming performance at mainstream price points. The ATI Radeon HD 3800 series will be introduced in two variants at launch, from US $179 MSRP, the ATI Radeon™ HD 3850 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and from US $219 MSRP, the ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 with 512MB GDDR4 memory. The launch of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series redefines the enthusiast segment and puts high performance gaming in reach of more users than ever before. This innovative new series of graphics products also represent the first step in the launch of AMD’s upcoming enthusiast platform codenamed “Spider.”

“With the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series we are redefining the market for enthusiast graphics with a new class of price, performance and features that have never been seen before in this industry,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Graphics Product Group, AMD. “Through a flawless transition to 55nm and Microsoft DirectX® 10.1, we can deliver an unprecedented level of scalable performance, image quality enhancements and power efficiency at the sub- $200 segment that rivals today’s most expensive graphics processors and opens up enthusiast gaming to more end users than ever before.”

Read the press release or visit the HD3800 Series product page for more information.

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It can analyse and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard / motherboard information, and much more…

Key features:

• System Information: Scanning your system and give a complete report about your computer’s hardware and software, for examples: mainboard information, video system information, PCI / AGP buses information, peripheral (keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.) information, Windows registry settings, and network information.
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The utility is provided FREE of charge by freshdevices.com but does require registration in order to use the benchmark tests. They also offer several more useful small utilities which appears very useful indeed.