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Sharp Galapagos coming to US, India with 3G, EPUB support

By Dr. Kernel on Jan 3rd, 2011

General / Hardware / Mobile Phones

Install DD-WRT on your router

By Dr. Kernel on Nov 29th, 2010

Hello everybody, now a days people use router for wifi connections, sharing more than 2 computers. Every router comes with its firmware. But what is firmware ? In electronics and computing, firmware is a term often used to denote the fixed, usually rather small, programs and/or data structures that internally control various electronic devices. People [...]

Hardware / Linux / Servers and Networking / Software

Blackberry PlayPAD

By Dr. Kernel on Sep 28th, 2010

Doesn’t sound very business like does it? On the other hand its not exactly designed to be purely for business either. The ‘Play Pad’ will be smaller than Apples Ipad at approx 7 inches square as opposed to 9 inches square. Its also lighter than the Ipad. Rear and front facing cameras…ooo gotta like that, [...]

Hardware / Mobile Phones

AMD Zacate APU

By Dr. Kernel on Sep 28th, 2010

Zacate is AMD’s 18W APU aimed at the mainstream notebook market (~$500 notebooks). The APU features a pair of Bobcat cores and a Cedar-class AMD DX11 GPU. Spending some time with the physical Zacate package, it seems to have a single 64-bit DDR3 memory interface ala Atom. Unlike Atom however, both the Bobcat cores and [...]

General / Hardware / Servers and Networking

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

By Dr. Kernel on Sep 28th, 2010

A very smart man once told me that absolute performance doesn’t matter, it’s performance at a given price point that makes a product successful. While AMD hasn’t held the absolute performance crown for several years now, that doesn’t mean the company’s products haven’t been successful. During the days of the original Phenom, AMD started the [...]