Off you go… into the purple yonder!

So Dell now has 32GB solid state disks as an option on the Latitude D420 and the Latitude ATG. They’re still a bit pricey (almost $500 extra) and not very big, but that will change soon. I wonder what percentage of the PC market will be using solid state disks in a year or two…

The Myissue.devalpatrick.com website has a new issue listed about the use of free software in Massachusetts government. If you are a resident of the Bay State, please support this issue!

This morning, a user on one of our machines (inadvertently) created a mail loop with a bad procmail script:
09:42:05 up 120 days, 9:23, 20 users, load average: 3367.40, 3265.08, 2751.75
I had seen machines go up to about 200 before, but never this high. If you ever wonder about the stability [...]

ST wrote up a nice howto on adding a PLCC socket to the m57sli-s4.
This is a great alternative to de-soldering the original chip to add a socket. He still needs to do some more testing, but this sure looks promising!
In other news, the LinuxBIOS v2 mainline tree now has the m57sli-s4 code merged, so it [...]

Bari Ari wrote to the LinuxBIOS mailing list a couple days ago announcing FLASH-PLAICE: a programmer, logic analyzer and in-circuit flash emulator project that will speed up LinuxBIOS development considerably.
The project is based off an inexpensive Xilinx Spartan FPGA development board ($150). The idea is to use it to build a flash emulator that can [...]

Good news this Monday morning: Apple is going to sell songs from the entire EMI digital music catalog without DRM, starting next month. Non-DRM”d tracks will come at a premium price ($1.29), but also with better quality – 256Kbps AAC. There will be an option to upgrade existing purchases to the higher-quality non-DRM’d versions, for [...]