Konstantin Antselovich

AVS Forum

Friday, October 8th, 2010

all you need to know about home audio,video,tv,dvd,etc

Posted in audio, electronics, forum, hardware, hdtv, home, hometheater, htpc, media, streaming, technology, tv, video | Comments Off | permalink

Cowboy Frank’s Webcam Reviews

Friday, August 20th, 2010

read on on this site in case you are looking to by webcam for skype or something. Some webcams are better than others, so it’s worth to read on for 10 min .

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www.flatpanelshd.com – Your guide to flat panel monitors and TVs …

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Info, tests, specs and other info — this URL is a must when you are in a process getting a new flat panel TV or monitor

Posted in display, flatpanel, for:collidr, for:ovchin, guide, hardware, lcd, monitor, office, reference, review | Comments Off | permalink

Red Hat Knowledgebase: How do I determine if my x86-compatible Intel system is multi-processor, multi-core or supports hyperthreading?

Friday, May 21st, 2010

CPU Identifications in linux kernels (2.6.18 + rhel patches) , NOTE that this is not applicable when you are running linux kernel on top of virtual hardware (i.e. Dom0 and DomU kernels won’t show proper CPU info because they use “virtual CPU” as set …

Posted in cpu, cpuid, for:collidr, hardware, Linux, redhat, x86 | Comments Off | permalink

dga: Notes from Google "Flash" talk at UCSD non-volatile memories workshop

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

a lot of interesting details about using flash drives as cache and high-perf block io devices (notes from google talk given at UCSD)

Posted in architecture, cache, cs, disk, flah, hardware, high_load, Linux, performance, storage | Comments Off | permalink

SIIG 3-Ports (2 Ext + 1 Int) Low Profile PCI USB 2.0 Adapter Rohs LP-U22011-S2 LPU22011S2

Friday, April 30th, 2010

for my office server

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Harald Welte’s blog — Paper: Anatomy of contemporary GSM cellphones

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

An excellent [attempt of ] description of the GSM cell phones hardware, design, architecture and implementation

Posted in architecture, engineering, for:collidr, gsm, hardware, mobile, phone, programming, protocol, reference, reverse | Comments Off | permalink

Mac OS X Pl2303 Driver Project [USB-Serial modem driver for Prolifc PL2303 -based devices]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Prolific PL2303 USB serial adapter driver for Mac OS X. This chip is used in various devices like usb serial dongles and as cheap embedded USB bridge in cellphones, GPS receivers and other applications with low data traffic.

Posted in cable, driver, embedded, hardware, mac, macosx, opensource, osx, pl2303, serial, usb | Comments Off | permalink

CCIE in 3 months – Is it possible?: Get your hands dirty with Linux on an ASR1000

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

internal details about Cisco ASR1000 “platform” router, including hardware details (/proc/cpuinfo, dmesg)

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Default Password List

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

default passwords list for various hardware devices

Posted in default, for:collidr, hardware, password, passwords, reference, Security, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink