Tuesday, July 27, 2004

freshmeat.net: Project details for XFree86 Synaptics TouchPad Driver - "The XFree86 Synaptics TouchPad Driver is a driver for Synaptics touchpads, which are found on many notebook computers. It features tap gesture decoding (including tap-and-drag operations and multi finger tapping), emulation of a middle mouse button, emulation of vertical and horizontal scroll wheels, palm detection, and run-time configuration. " 1:51:10 PM

Slashdot | Mini PC Grows Up? Shuttle XPC Reviewed Mini PC Grows Up? Shuttle XPC Reviewed Posted by simoniker on Monday July 26, @04:45PM from the big-boy-now dept. Bender writes "The Tech Report has done a comprehensive review of the just-redesigned Shuttle XPC. These toaster-sized systems, sold with motherboard but sans CPU, memory, and storage, are becoming a very attractive alternative to the standard DIY system that's over twice the size. This latest PC 'cube' has everything: PCI Express, a BTX-inspired chassis design, room for a small RAID array, and pre-routed cables. The only snag is a Pentium 4 thermal throttling problem discovered through some nice investigative work. If Shuttle can fix this problem, this thing could be a killer personal workstation box." 12:04:56 PM