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If you are dissatisfied with your laptop hard drive's performance, you should consider moving to a new state—solid state. Read on for head-to-head comparisons between a standard laptop hard drive and a solid state model.

Hacking the Eee PC

April 1st, 2008 by Jes Hall in

How to tweak your Eee PC.
The present and future of high-performance computing.
The demands of parallel processing may be met more easily in a language we already know.
Tired of x86? See what Linux on Itanium, Sun T1 or POWER5 can do!

The Ultimate Linux Laptop

September 1st, 2007 by James Gray in

EmperorLinux's Raven X60, take your victory lap! Smart innovations vault a compact yet powerful machine over the bar.
The Nokia N800 starts off the N-series of Linux handhelds with an indisputable winner.
We packed unbelievable power in a tank case and added all the trimmings for less than $4,000.
Discovering local artists through Zeroconf.
Creating an unattended, encrypted, redundant, network backup solution using Linux, Duplicity and COTS hardware.
Linux-based robots are tricky to create, but Michael Surran's Robotics class found out it can be done.
The Ultimate Multimedia Center actually slides in under a million dollars.
Start with the ultimate AMD64 motherboard and build on it to create a masterpiece of your own.
Puget Custom Computers packs a lot of power into our Ultimate Linux Desktop.
Turning the pages of this magazine makes more noise than this year's Ultimate Linux Box does.
Some people wanted us to build a big powerful SMP system. Some people wanted us to build a silent machine that would be good for audio. So we did both.
Checking back in with gumstix's expanding product line to see if the original concerns have been addressed and what's possible now with the waysmall modules.
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From the Magazine

September 2008, #173

Feeling a bit like a Thermian? Never give up, never surrender! Someday, you could go from underdog to top dog. Just take a look at a few of the underdogs we highlight in this issue: Mutt, djbdns, Nginix, Gentoo, Xara and the program voted mostly likely to fail just a few years back—Firefox. If Firefox is not radical enough for you, check out Chef Marcel's column for some more alternatives. Having trouble mapping your program data to your relational database? If so, Rueven Lerner shows you some tricks in his At The Forge column.

Need to run GUI applications on your server in the next state? In his Paranoid Penguin column, Mick Bauer shows you how to do it securely. Kyle Rankin keeps hacking and slashing and shows you a few split screen secrets you may not be familiar with. Finally, we all know what happens next February, but only Doc knows what happens afterward.

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