UMPC Laptop for US$189 by ASUS!

You saw it right. A truly compact laptop by the well known motherboard maker ASUS at the pricing of US$189, thats roughly only SGD 300!

The ASUS Eee PC 701 has a dimension of 225 x 165 x 21-35 mm, a 7" LCD screen, 512MB of RAM and coupled together with a solid state drive and battery.
Reports like the one from CyberCapital and such mentions that Linux is supplied as a default with Office suite and the Mozilla Firefox browser to complete the usability experience. Furthermore, it is even possible to run Windows XP on the tiny device.

At such a size, it is more enjoyable lugging along a laptop instead to enjoy Free WIFI at Wireless@SG hotspots.

Here's something even more surprising. It takes only 15 seconds to boot up.

I can't wait to lay my hands on this new baby!

P2P with Network Attach Storage!

Chanced upon Andy's blog while playing MMORPG (MapleStory) these few days.

Andy has kindly compiled the program which allows anyone with a Linux NAS box to run P2P, like Bittorrent and eDonkey network.

Although it was specifically compiled for the D-Link DNS-323, as long as the architecture of device is based on ARM processor, you're in luck! Some Brand/Model even includes MLDonkey by default, such as the Planex Gigabit NAS-01G.

The result? Lower power consumption and less fan noise as compared to a desktop doing the downloading job. It's money savings, great isn't it?

Here today, it took me awhile with some help from Andy to get it running on the good old cheaper NAS that I have, the DNS 300.

Linux command line by telnet, isn't that easy nor hard as it seems.

It sure took me awhile, but its exciting to see it work. Heres the UI of MLDonkey.

eDonkey server available for choice

List of BT peers connected to MLDonkey before, and eMule!

For those who already had a NAS, try do some research on your unit. For the rest, do look out for these models mentioned above when you're considering a NAS. Try it and see for yourself!

PS: Thx to Andy again the the MLDonkey compilation. Please take a look at his site from the links at the right or by clicking here!