Hardware Reports - Machines And Kit I Have Bought (running linux of course).
Laptops
Sony Z600 HEK - great machine. pity it's a sony (we despise sony due to the DRM fiasco).
Acer TravelMate C100 - track pad breaks after two years. really inconvenient.
Acer TravelMate C112 - keyboard breaks after 10hr/day continuous use.
Packard Bell E2316 - good value for money at the time
Sony Vaio VGN X505ZP - sexiest machine of its time.
AJP 870 - stunningly powerful
Fujitsu Lifebook 1510 - tiny. love it. there are better tiny machines though.
Acer Aspire 5044WLMi - GREAT machine! amazing value for money!
Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 - Another GREAT machine! Watch out for overheating: make sure you get cpufreqd installed and configured!
HP Omnibook 500 Ultraportable - Nice machine, has plenty of othe people doing Linux installs on it. Good specification and features, for an older laptop.
Sony Vaio (Pink!) VGN-CR21E - Really good machine - amazingly, all hardware is supported. This is a first.
Fujitsu Lifebook P7120 - Another good machine - lightweight, 1280x800 WXGA screen, everything works except the Ricoh XD cardreader.
Dell Latitude D430 - Lightweight, 1280x800 WXGA screen, 32Gb Solid-State drive (oooo), Dual-core 1.2ghz, 2gb RAM, 3G (HDSPA) modem, Wireless 802.11n: only £560 reconditioned. Pretty cool.
Chitech CT-PC89E - The first ARM Laptop: 1024x600 8.9in LCD, 2gb NAND Flash, 802.11b/g WIFI, 256mb RAM, Samsung ARM11 667mhz S3C6410.
Aorus X3 Plus V6 - An extreme "Gaming" laptop, with up to 32GB 2400 Mhz DDR4 RAM, space for two NVMe PCIe (M.2) SSDs (2000 MB/sec read, 500 MB/sec write), 3200 x 1800 LCD, HDMI 2.0, 8 Core i7 2.7 Ghz processor (overclockable to 4 Ghz), 14in, 1.8kg, Dual (hybrid) Graphics: Intel HD 5500 and a "headless" GPU co-processor (runs in "Optimus" / "Primus" mode), a GTX 1060 with 6 GB of RAM. One of the most insanely-high spec'd actually portable laptops ever known. List price with 16 GB RAM and a 512 GB NVMe Fujitsu SSD: $USD 2,500.
Mobile Devices
The HBP/D Home-brew Phone / Desktop - an endeavour to create a portable smartphone powerful enough to also run as a Desktop PC.
The IGEP-v2 running with a DoubleSight DS-70U 7in LCD DisplayLink-powered USB Screen
Project ARA Open Letter" to the development team.
SSDs
An analysis of SSDs (torture test). Simple conclusion: don't buy anything other than Intel SSDs if power loss protection is of serious concern.
Software
Cyrus 2.2.12 "Aggregator" Deployment on Debian
Nearly 100% spam and virus-free Exim4 Configs, for Debian (delivering to Cyrus22)
How to write to git repositories using python dulwich
Successful deployment of Python LMDB
Removal of Systemd from a live-running Debian System
Theoretical Reports
Rishon Model