Category — technology

Bought a new LinkSys NSLU2 or Slug Box as it’s also known by. This is a lovely little box that allows you to connect your USB drives, pen drives or external hard drives to your network. It’s a tiny little thing that runs it’s proprietary firmware that makes the drives accessible on your network.

I soon despensed of that and whacked Debian on it. As soon as I did this, it opened up a whole host of possibilities. Now it’s running a lightweight torrent client, a samba server, a nfs server and a load of backup scripts. From a device that cost me £64 this is truly delightful. Just need to see if I can get an NFS server running and then I’ll be turning my home server off some of the time. Ooooh think of the electricity bill savings.

I’ve just been watching this video about the the new T-Mobile G1 and I don’t see it.

I have an iPhone and I can’t see anything that I’d actually use that the “g-phone” provides. I mean it’s a reasonable phone, but the UI looks clunky to me. The fact it’s Android is pretty cool as it should mean it’s really extensible, but currently I’m still not convinced and I’d been quite looking forward to the first Android phones, but frankly I think I was expecting something more.

I might be completely wrong, in fact I actually hope I am but from the videos I’m just not convinced.