Archive for January, 2006

Cool New Hardware

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

I’ve been playing with two pieces of hardware recently. One is the Linksys NSLU2. This device runs the Intel XScale processor with BusyBox linux. Off the shelf, it’s a way of turning your USB disks into NAS. With custom firmware, you can run pretty much whatever your want on it. Imagine one box running your file shares, caching proxy, and web server, all for under $100.