My Notes

It appears that it is already possible to buy buy a USB 3.0 controller expansion card.
Information about USB 3 in Wikipedia. It was said: Consumer products are expected to become available in 2010. Commercial controllers are expected to enter into volume production no later than the first quarter of 2010.. But it's still 2009 and these are available!
These beasts are capable to transfer data at 400 megabytes per second.

Ever thought about creating a totally silent computer? Turn old PC into a quiet network router, or media player, or thin terminal client? Among all you need a solid-state (i.e. containing no moving parts) hard disk drive.

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How to make ALSA-only applications output sound when using OSS 4 without any additional wrapper libraries? Here's a very useful hint I found here:
http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/05/perfect-sound-with-oss-version-4.html

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One more good article about situation around Linux/UNIX sound from one of OSS developers.

A great article about Linux sound and OSS vs. ALSA.