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I ordered the B+ on RS Components the same day of the official release and I received the board the next day. It is a welcome evolution for anyone using the Raspbian distribution. Unfortunately, they changed the USB/LAN chip and most pre-made SD images aren't working anymore. For example...

The USB only model does not make sense. I use the FTDI cable sold by RS components with sku# 767-6200 to connect the RPi RS232 console to the PC USB port. It is also comes handy to reflash many consumer routers. The Bluetooth feature is nice, thanks for sharing this news. By the way, I am...

My thought exactly. Exchange is a good product, but it still has compatibility issues with other mail servers. I found very useful to have a MailScanner box between Exchange and the public Internet, to also do the spam filtering (inbound and outbound) and to log the email traffic (Mailscanner is...

The commercial name of this technology is DisplayLink (I believe that the adapter you found is a unlicensed clone, therefore the trademark name has been removed from the sales literature). I had a similar device back when this standard came out in 2007, then I switched to a Thinkvision LT1421...

You guessed right, it's a warehouse. That place is nice and basically clean; the PC is definitely the dirtiest thing. It's strange. I promptly replace such a dirty keyboard if the user asks for it, but they seems to be totally at ease. On the opposite side of the spectrum, I once had to replace...

I wonder what's lurking in this one I saw today: This is what happens when: a- the user is male, b- there is no office cleaning service, c- the user never ever clean its desk, years after years, d- the user's boss is male too, and does not care. I have a few of these "greasy fingers"...

Go to Amazon and search for "10 Neodynium Magnets 1/2 x 1/8 inch Disk N48", currently at $7.89. A fun and useful small item. Keep away from children! As alternative, when I have to pad a order I usually add a SD card or USB memory stick. They are always useful.

I started to use paypal for buying VPS services because one of my regular credit card got suspended twice after a payment: the card issuer does flag this kind of transactions as high risk. Paypal is cheaper and more convenient than a prepaid card, and EUR/USD conversion rate is better too.

It is not there, definitely. I recently tried even the most expensive solutions (it would be nice to use VDI for 3D CAD applications), but performance is barely sufficient, at best, and stability is lower than a non-virtualized setup. Citrix seems to have the edge, anyway.

To open my desktop at work from my home PC, I simply double click a remote desktop connection icon, with the remote desktop gateway section filled. The Windows remote desktop gateway service at the office does manage the VPN tunnel and forwards the RDP session to the relevant machine. This does...

My thoughts about the OS: FreeNAS is a great solution if you (a computer professional) will do the management and keep a watchful eye over the machine. Should the server be "managed" from the typical Windows power user, I would certainly choose Windows server instead (the low-cost version...

The network is good, latency is stable from my location. At first, my VPS did not come up and the control panel showed a connection error. I waited a few hours to let things settle, then I opened a low priority ticket and Matthew fixed the issue shortly after. This little 32mb plan likes to...

The cheapest option is a mini-itx standard motherboard with integrated CPU (Atom or E350) and dual LAN. There are many of them; look at http://www.mini-itx.com/store/boards for some examples. The $100 goal for the complete system is realistic and you can use any standard operating system and...

The T20 E3-1225 list price on my country Dell web site in january was 459 EUR + VAT, and it dropped to 375 + VAT after a phone call to the Dell rep (january is end-of-quarter time for Dell). $800 is too much. Try calling Dell, asking for a discount. They never refused it, on my experience. 

I also use a ML110 G5 at home as ESXi server (with a Smart Array E200i); the Dell T20 is the Hyper-V server and a HP N36L microserver (with remote access card) is the fileserver. All three are cheap, silent and fits perfectly at home. The Dell T20 supports more RAM, has a better CPU, and uses...

There is space for a full lenght card. The case is smaller than the Dell T110-II, but only slightly. I also tried to use it as workstation, with a spare nVidia Quadro FX1800 I have around: it accepted it without any issue.

Look at Dell Poweredge T20 entry-level server. The Xeon model is quite powerful and still cheap (discounts over the public Dell site price are always available). It is quiet and you can expand it with standard components. On my home build, I added 4 Kingston 8 Gb ECC RAM sticks and replaced the...

Hardware parts are marginally cheaper than a 15'' low-end notebook. Netbook price is low for marketing purposes, the platform is full of unneeded limitations. The awful 1024x600 screen resolution is a Microsoft thing: it is the maximum screen resolution allowed for the Windows xp ULCPC...

I found the BIOS restriction on screen resolution by actually trying to upgrade LCD panels, so I am pretty sure it's there, at least in some machines. You may have a better luck on a laptop with discrete graphics.

Quote from the Intel Atom processor N400&N500 datasheet, volume 1:   The integrated graphics controller has two display ports: LVDS and RGB — Integrated single LVDS channel support resolution up to 1280*800 or 1366*768 — Analog RGB display output up to resolution 1400x1050 @ 60Hz On the Intel...