Hurgh’s Blog

I have been wanting to make a PC for my car for a long time, but never came across a case that I thought would be realy cool in the car.
At the recent CeBIT show, there was both new mini itx cases and via mini itx main boards released. Over at www.mini-itx.com they have a few new cases and combo’s like this Vehicle PC. Looks like I wont need to make one up myself after all.
All I need after that is a nice LCD display, a new sound system, GPS nav software and a GPS unit…..

Well looks like there will probably be better things around by the time i have all the parts to make it worth while .

-Hurgh-

Came across an interesting use for a RAID array today.

Some guy has build a RAID array out of 5 USB Floppy Disk Drives.

Here is the full article.

I dont see this technology taking off any time soon. Imagine what the would would have been like about 15 years ago if someone had developed FDD RAID. We would have been able to boot our PC’s off the 5.25″ FDD’s that little bit quicker .

-Hurgh-

Have you ever wanted to grab an old laptop and make one of thoes digital picture frames that you see around the net? Well now it looks like you dont need to. Samsung are releasing a 7inch Digital Picture Frame.

You can read more about it at engadget. You might also want to check it out on the Samsung site.

I have always wanted to make a digital picture frame, and probably will end up making one myself, with an old laptop. Chances are that this will be too expensive to justify buying just to hang on the wall

-Hurgh-