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20061011-105134 BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
BUSYBOX
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.
The latest BIOS version number 1014 finally successfully activate the Cool and Quite feature of AMD Athlon CPU. You can refer to this post for the detail.
It's really unbelievable that Asus take 1 year to develop a correct BIOS after the shippment of this motherboard.
20060501-151034 Areca 1210 SATA Raid Card
I install a Areca 1210 SATA PCI-E Raid card on Asus K8N-DL.
In the manual of Areca, it claims that its "storport" driver has superior performance and management feature. They encourage customer to install "storport" driver instead of its "scsiport" driver.
However, after storport driver has been installed, my Windows 2003 frequently crash and reboot repeatedly. The bouldled management software even can't recognize the existance of this card.
Prices below are subject to change without notice. This listing reflects pricing for direct AMD customers in 1000-unit tray quantities, except when designated as PIB quantities.
20060414-124751 Asus K8N-DL can't reboot correctly
I setup a Opteron Server with Asus K8N-DL motherboard.
It never handles reboot correctly. When requested to reboot or shutdown, it just hangs at the last moment when it should be power off. The problem is unknown.
20060408-132806 AMD Athlox 3500+ v.s. 4800+
Performance Comparison between AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and X2 4800+
Platform1: Athlon 3500+, Asus K8N-E Platform2: Athlon 3500+, Asus K8N-SLi
Performance Comparison between AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and Single Opteron254
Platform1: Athlon 4800+, Asus K8N SLi Platform2: Opteron 254, Asus K8N-DL
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20060222-130555 Experience with iPod Video 60G
I bought a iPod Video 60G to experience the legend of fashion. Prior to that I have many experience of various branded MP3 players from low-end to high-end.
Of course, iPod Video is slicky and well designed. Although the color display is of nice resolution, its small size makes it not a comfortable activity to watch video for a long time. Besides, the color of the LCD is dull which is undoubtedly a minus.
The most disappointed stroke is the necessary of iTune in the middle. On positive side, iTune is a good media manager which helps rookies to organize their media files. However, on the negative side, it forbids direct access to the device which is very bad in the view of operation Transparency. Everyone knows Apple has its business consideration by doing this.
Overall, I have to admit that iPod Video is a solid-built toy nice to have. It certainly has some unique points in its hardware design and hardware user interface. But the proprietary iTune creates an unfriendly and opaque wall which prohibits users from control the device accordingly.
After bought it, I decided to sold it within 24Hr.
20060111-160742 MB Comparison: A8N-E, A8N-SLi, K8N Pro SLi
Asus
A8N-E
Asus
A8N-SLI
Asus
A8N-SLI
Gigabyte
K8N Pro SLI
CPU
AMD
X2 4400+
AMD
X2 4800+
AMD
3500+
AMD
X2 4800+
OS
Win2K3
(SP1)
Win2K3
(SP1)
WinXP Pro
(SP2)
Win2K3
(SP1)
Disk
NV Raid1
(2 SATA)
NV Raid1
(2 SATA)
Non-Raid
(1 SATA)
NV Raid1
(2 SATA)
RAM
3G
(DDR400)
3G
(DDR400)
1G
(DDR400)
3G
(DDR400)
Unable to reboot during OS installation, and after first startup
X
System fan reported to be failed at startup frequently
X
X
NV Raid driver dones't pass WHQL
X
NV Raid driver disk reported to be file missing
X
APCI configuration in BIOS can be activated?
X
X
?
AMD power saving features can be enabled?
X
X
?
System crash at PCMark05 HDD test
X
?
Run-time unpredictable system crash
X
X
nVidia (NVRaid) Media Shield is UI broken in Win2003 English version
X
X
X
lEach board is installed with latest BIOS/drivers/utilites (2005 Q4)
lCPU is installed with latest AMD Cool-n-Quiet drivers (2005 Q3/Q4)
lNo overclocked configuration
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