Stonegate SG-500

Just came across an old SG-500 appliance. I thought it would be interesting to see what else can run on these boxes, so I opened it and found some interesting things inside. Infact the appliance is nothing more than the Portwell NAD 2050 appliance. Based on a Via chip you have everything on the motherboard you need. You have usb connectors, vga output and a primary and secondary controller so you also can connect a full hdd to it. Unfortunately the board apparently stands a max of 512 mb Ram (SODIMM PC 133s).

The box is ideal to build some kind of server or firewall with DNS aso. by using Debian or alike.

So now I do my best to find some old RAMs to put them in and see what will happen with a 8GB CF card in it.

itunes U

I don't know if you have seen it already bur I discovered in itunes this new section called itunes U. The section has lots of different university lectures on very various themes and it is really interesting to see that all those lectures are for free.

So if you are interested in learning new stuff just feel free to browse through as they are all FREE.

The making of a Panorama

Well yes finally I found the time to follow this link to assemble some panoramas out of my pictures i've taken some time ago. And it worked just great. :-)

Hopefully I will now find the time to put them online. :-)

BT4 on USB stick with persistent changes

As I already had BT3 running on an USB stick I wanted to see how easy it is with BT4.
So I got myself an 8GB Stick and followed the following tutorial. The tutorial is very nice and you should be able to do it very rapidly. I used qtparted to partition my USB stick and I chose to have a 2 GB main partition and the rest for the changes partition.

On the other hand side when I booted BT4 for the first time and started netwroking on my Sony Vaio TX3XP networking was tremendusly slow. So I did changed the few things I mentioned in my last blog when installing Ubuntu and now networking is just a pleasure. :-) and the changes stay persistent of course.