Hardware

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/ all you need to know about home audio,video,tv,dvd,etc

http://cowboyfrank.net/webcams/ 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 .

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/panels.php 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

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-7715 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 by XEN )

http://dga.livejournal.com/44132.html a lot of interesting details about using flash drives as cache and high-perf block io devices (notes from google talk given at UCSD)

http://compuvest.com/Desc.jsp?iid=1036864 for my office server

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/04/14/#20100414-anatomy_of_gsm_cellphone An excellent [attempt of ] description of the GSM cell phones hardware, design, architecture and implementation

http://osx-pl2303.sourceforge.net/ 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.

http://ccie-in-3-months.blogspot.com/2010/02/get-your-hands-dirty-with-linux-on.html internal details about Cisco ASR1000 “platform” router, including hardware details (/proc/cpuinfo, dmesg)

http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html default passwords list for various hardware devices