Archive for the ‘Skip's Junk Site News’ Category

Tightwad Engineering, Inc goes wireless

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Yes, Tightwad Engineering (TWE) has combined forces with HillBilly Enterprizes, LLC (HBE) and SkipsJunk to develop another new hi-tek device:

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/stunning-breakthrough-in-wireless.html

The DSWD-v1 and -v2 have been revealed!

Have a USB wireless w/o an external antenna that you wanna use for a longer range, semi-stationary wireless link? Our precision designed parabolic dish kit should be on the market soon for under $12 (using ur USB stick). A complete kit that includes a 200mw high power USB stick, the DSWD-v2 parabolic and USB extension is expected to hit the market for under $39.

;-) Have fun.

PS: I also must credit these krazy Kiwis as I do believe this is were I stole the idea from:
http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/

Raid10

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

I wrote up something about how I ended up with software RAID 10 on my Dotsch/UX server.  Not exactly a how-to and it centers around my Dotsch/UX server that supports several headless & diskless clients.  However Dotsch/UX is a distro based very closesly on Ubuntu and all the actual RAID setup is identical.  It contains several links to some how-to articles and points out some of the stengths / weaknesses of those along with a general software RAID info.  It’s under the main section called “more info”.

Next up?  Who knows.  Probably something on doing number crunching on video cards (GPU)… but then I’ve already done a couple of posts on the Guru Mountain Team website and may just leave it there.  We’ll see.

Texas Cruncher Pics Updated

Monday, January 5th, 2009

We’ve added some new, more recent pictures of the Texas Cruncher Basket Stack in the PHOTO GALLERY section of the site. The current configuration is 48 cores of highspeed crunching power.

New site design…

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Up in the northern wastelands of Nebraska, our webmaster was forced to actually do some work to pass the time, during a critical beer shortage. The new design for the website is done, with only some content material to be added over the next few days. The SITE NEWS blog should make announcements, updates and mindless ramblings easier to add. We hope to add a few new features to the website in the coming weeks.

UPDATE: Sept 5, 2008 - The Guru Mountain DC Team website also got a new facelift. Be sure and check it out!