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Tech News: Via’s pico-itx motherboard

Via’s incredible shrinking mobo line spawns “pico-ITX”

Via is readying a media-oriented motherboard in what could be the next popular size for small form-factor PCs: Pico-ITX. The “Epia PX” board measures 3.9 x 2.8 inches and features a 1GHz C7 processor, along with rich audio/video I/O, albeit mostly on pin headers.

The first pico-ITX board will be called the Epia PX. It will be available initially with a C7 processor clocked at 1GHz. The Gigahertz mark has long been a “sweet spot” in Via’s chip line, due to the possibility of easy passive cooling.

from LinuxDevices.com

Little Linux systems for projects and products

Are you looking for small pre-built systems for implementing your Linux-based projects or products? Look no further. In response to numerous inquiries, LinuxDevices.com has assembled a reference list of small systems that can serve as ready-made platforms for prototyping applications, or as the basis of application-specific Linux-based systems and devices.

from LinuxDevices.com

BSD goes live with FreeSBIE 2.0

Last year the Italian FreeBSD user group, GUFI, rekindled the FreeSBIE project to develop a live CD based on the FreeBSD operating system. After more than four months of development, and an equal number of beta releases, the project released FreesBIE 2.0 this month. Codenamed Clint Eastwood, the live CD is based on the recent FreeBSD 6.2 release, and is an ideal platform to experience BSD and learn how things are done in BSD land.

by Mayank Sharma.

the cost of monoculture

This nation is also a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows. This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation’s e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions because all encrypted communications online in this nation must be done with Active X controls.

Where is this nation?

South Korea.

by Gen Kanai.

SSL secures VNC applicationsA real-world setup for desktop remote control

The idea is to use SSL to provide security for a simple VNC viewer embedded in a Web page. This means that essentially any Java-capable Web browser can view and interact with the remote desktop; this makes for a powerful solution to a typical situations, including telecollaboration, technical support, and provisioning.

by Kyler Laird, Kocjan Wojciech and Cameron Laird.

Analyze traffic on switch ports with SPAN and RSPAN

I’ve heard from a number of TechRepublic members who have questions about using a protocol analyzer (i.e., sniffer), such as Ethereal, to decode, monitor, and understand their network traffic. To do so, they want to connect their monitoring station to a switch and view all data going across that switch or across the network.

by David Davis.

WTF has my Wi-Fi network gone?

I own a Linksys WRT54G wireless router, and in the four years I’ve had it, I’ve connected it to two Macs, two PCs, a Nintendo Wii and a host of handhelds. It’s been a joy to use, more so than the Proxim box I used to own. Until now. Over the last month or so, it’s begun to drop connections randomly and without warning. Parts of my home once in reach of its transmitter have mysteriously become dead zones…

by Tony Smith.

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