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Open Compute Project Driving Open-Source Hardware Development

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Facebook launched the Open Compute Project in April 2011 with the intention of sharing the designs of the social networking giant’s data center in Prineville, Oregon, as well as custom designs for servers, power supplies and UPS units. Since then, the project has been growing, adding new partners and introducing new technologies designed specifically for use in webscale data centers.

via Open Compute Project Driving Open-Source Hardware Development.

The Open Compute v2 machines were unveiled at the third Open Compute Summit in May. The new OCP v2 servers are double-stuffed machines that can fit two two-socket x86 servers, their power supplies, and fans into a 1.5U Open Computer chassis.

AMD and Intel have contributed motherboard designs used in OCP v1 and v2. The new motherboards stripped out many features found in traditional motherboards to optimize power and reduce costs.

Antec ISK 110 VESA Case Review: Just About As Small As It Gets

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We’ve been having a good run of Mini-ITX cases lately, but most of those cases are designed to still be able to support what are essentially fully-powered systems: standard voltage CPUs, dedicated graphics cards, an optical drive and multiple storage drives. Yet part of the charm of Mini-ITX is that it’s capable of fitting into a much smaller space than even a Micro-ATX board theoretically could. If you’re gunning just to produce a system that’s very small and very efficient, but you don’t want to just use someone else’s build, a Mini-ITX board and the right enclosure can have you covered.

via AnandTech – Antec ISK 110 VESA Case Review: Just About As Small As It Gets.

Given that there isn’t a whole lot to the Antec ISK 110 VESA, you’d think assembly would be simple and straightforward. While it’s straightforward, simplicity unfortunately isn’t part of the equation; cramped quarters are never good for getting a system put together, and the ISK 110 VESA is incredibly cramped.

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It’s meant for kiosk and basic lightweight corporate and personal use.

Low-Power Slab Server Pairs ARM with Linux

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While Baserock Linux was first developed around the X86-64 platform, its developers planned the leap to the ARM platform. Each Slab CPU node consists of a Marvell quad-core 1.33-GHz Armada XP ARM chip, 2 GB of ECC RAM, a Cogent Computer Systems CSB1726 SoM, and a 30 GB solid-state drive. The nodes are connected to the high-speed network fabric, which includes two links per compute node driving 5 Gbits/s of bonded bandwidth to each CPU, with wire-speed switching and routing at up to 119 million packets per second.

via Low-Power Slab Server Pairs ARM with Linux.

Lenovo ThinkCentre M92 Tiny System Review: Pint-Sized Power

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Those skint specs extend to just 4GB of DDR3, a slow 5400-RPM mechanical hard drive, and no wireless connectivity of any kind. These can all be upgraded, mind you, but you’ll have to pay for each one. The system itself is next to impossible to actually dismantle, too, so you’re stuck ordering these upgrades when you order the system. When we’re starting at $699 we should have at least wireless ethernet and Bluetooth standard, especially given just how small and portable the M92 really is.

via AnandTech – Lenovo ThinkCentre M92 Tiny System Review: Pint-Sized Power.

$699 base price.

The technologist’s guide to troubleshooting hardware

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PCs are always getting simpler and more streamlined, but there are still a lot of different parts to most of them, which means that there is a lot more that can go wrong with them. We’ll go through potential problems component by component, matching symptoms to issues and telling you the best way to inform your friend on the other end of the phone. Pay attention here, because many of these symptoms and procedures are also going to be useful when troubleshooting Macs, phones, and tablets.

via The technologist’s guide to troubleshooting hardware | Ars Technica.

Red Hat | UEFI Secure Boot

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The resulting mechanism planned for getting the keys automatically distributed is to utilize Microsoft key signing and registry services. This obviates the need for every customer to have to round up a collection of keys for multiple operating systems and device drivers. Microsoft will provide keys for Windows and Red Hat will provide keys for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Similarly other distributions can participate at a nominal cost of $99 USD – allowing them to register their own keys for distribution to system firmware vendors.

via Red Hat | UEFI Secure Boot.

Open Compute Project

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We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up – and then share these technologies as they evolve.

via Open Compute Project – Hacking Conventional Computing Infrastructure.

12in1 SIM Card+USB Card Reader/Writer GSM Copier Cloner

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The Sim card can clone all the data from your original Sim card including pin code

It can clone the ki and IMSI code

It can contain 12 different Sim card content, You may change your current phone number operation to another by the selection list

Easy to read the phonebook of Sim card and save to PC

Can write the phonebook saved in the PC to another new Sim card

Read, edit, backup telephone directory and SMS

Leisurely create, edit, backup mobile ring tones and pictures (only for Nokia phone)

Plug and play, easy to operation

via. http://www.lunershop.com/product_info.php?language=en&currency=USD&products_id=273