Just stumbled across something interesting, Beagleboard.org..
It’s a VERY small motherboard that could be utilized for numerous things like building a small linux firewall (smoothwall or the like) or a media center (XBMC is working on something for this board). It’s all very interesting and definitely SMALL form factor, and at a price of $149 it is within a fair budget.
More info here;
http://beagleboard.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-JUb6bb69E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DHu_nEy6Ew
Imagine this, you just bought a new netbook and even with a completely newly installed system you experience that it takes 3-5 minutes to start the pc (where it should only take 1-2 minutes), so what went wrong!?
Well often it is caused by stuff as Google Toolbar, Yahoo Toolbar and whatever “crap” the manufacturer stuffs onto a new pc..
Now you could go ahead and start cleaning up yourself, that is uninstall all the strange “crap” that is installed OR you could just download a neat pice of software “PC DeCrapifier” and this nice free software will deal with the “crap” for you by removing it – simple and easy..
Problemo solved.
Just a quick update on my previous posting regarding “Microsoft Security Essentials”. It has been brought to my attention, that there is a minor issue during the installation process. – During the “Microsoft Security Essentials” installation the LMHost file is replaced with a new one, now most users will never notice this – but if you made additions to your LMHost file (for security or anti commercial wise) you might find this annoying and might have spend some time debugging before you found this (your original lmhost.ini is renamed to lmhost.bak btw).
Nothing major, just something to think about.