Techie stats.

Since I have a brief moment while two servers are compiling, laptop and handhelds resolved for now, and a remote client is unavailable for me to work on, I have a few moments to put some of the "Techie" stats of all the computers and such from the past weeks.
The devices are:

Laptop - Toshiba - Satellite M45-S355

Handheld - Sharp - Zaurus SL-C3100

My new desktop multimedia system - Custom Built tower

William's new desktop system

Brennan's upgraded system

Drake's upgraded system

Click the "Read more" link for all the specifications...

My Toshiba I bought through Best Buy with extended 3 year warranty and more. It's nowhere near as nice as my Vaio pcg-grt170 was (See earlier articles for details), but this laptop has better battery life and is a good "middle of the road" system whereas the Vaio was a portable desktop workhorse. Here's some of the Toshiba specs:

• Intel Pentium® M processor 750 [1.86GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB]
• Microsoft® Windows XP Home Edition (SP2)
• I added Suse 9.3 as well (use that about 95% of the time)
• 1024MB PC2700 DDR333 SDRAM (512MBx2)
• 15.4" Diagonal Wide-screen XGA Display w/TruBrite Technology
• Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator w/10MB-128MB shared video memory
• 100GB HDD (5400rpm)
• DVD SuperMulti drive (Double Layer)
• 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter
• 3-USB (2.0) ports
• i.LINK™ IEEE 1394 port
• TV-out(S-Video)
• Headphone jack
• External microphone jack (monoaural)
• RGB monitor port
• V.92/56K modem port (Intel/Toshiba America Info 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC97)(WinModem)
• 10/100 Ethernet port (Marvell Technology Group Ltd.) Yukon 88E8036
• Intel® Pro/Wireless LAN 2200BG (802.11b/g)

It took some serious compiling and downloads to get this to work under Suse 9.3, but it works fine now Here's the links related to getting the wifi to work under Linux:

http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=5

The modem also took some doing to get working since it's a "winmodem" type. One thing to note, most of the sites kept referring to smlink (www.smlink.com) but they apparently had their website hacked or crashed during the days I was trying to work this out, so I found a way around having to use their drivers, but supposedly they make it easier if you use their drivers. I'm just listing the information I used not using their website. You may have an easier time now that their site is back up. Assuming they don't get it hacked again since they appear to be foolishly using a windows based server (asp page). Below are the links related to getting it working under Linux:

The most useful site for winmodems under linux: linmodems.org: http://www.linmodems.org/

You'll need the scanModem script to correctly identify the chipset: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/Intel/537/

http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/1/19754

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Next, my brand new multimedia specific desktop/tower... I custom built this with the following parts:

• Motherboard: Asus P5GDC Deluxe
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 505 2.66 Ghz
• RAM: 1GB
• Video: Ati All-in-wonder 600 Pro PCI Express Video card, TV-tuner card, Radio Card, and Video-capture card
• Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PLATINUM
• CD/CDR/CDRW/DVD/DVDR/DVDR-DL/DVDRW: Memorex 3202 3292
• Hard Drive: Western Digital 160 GB, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, WD1600JBRTL

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Next, William's system:

Motherboard: Biostar K7 MG7VIG4-A02

CPU: AMD Sempron 2200+

RAM: 512 MB DDR333 PC2700

Video Card: PNY Technologies Verto Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP 8x 128MB DDR

Cd/DVD: 48x/16x, 512KB cache IDE

Hard Drive: Western Digital 160 GB, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, WD1600JBRTL

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Brennan's upgrades included the motherboard, cpu, memory, and video card:

Motherboard: Biostar K7 MG7VIG4-A02

CPU: AMD Sempron 2200+

RAM: 512 MB DDR333 PC2700

Video Card: PNY Technologies Verto Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP 8x 128MB DDR

Game Controller: Saitek ST90 USB Joystick

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Drake's upgrades included motherboard, cpu, video card, memory, power supply, and joystick:

Motherboard: Biostar K7 MG7VIG4-A02

CPU: AMD Sempron 2200+

RAM: 512 MB DDR333 PC2700

Video Card: PNY Technologies Verto Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP 8x 128MB DDR

Game Controller: Saitek ST90 USB Joystick

Power supply: Antec 400 Watt Smart Power 2.0

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My new Linux-based handheld personal mobile tool: Zaurus SL-C3100 More details coming soon to this article...