dws's Journaldws's use Perl JournalPerl inon the small- December 30, 2005 For the holidays, I gave myself an NSLU2, (AKA "Slug"), which a small, fanless Network Attached Storage device minus the storage, which attaches via USB. (The picture doesn't do it justice; the Slug is about the size of a moderately thick paperback book.) NSLU2s go for about $85 USD if you shop around. The same folks who cracked the Linksys Router also figured out how to flash a new Linux into the NSLU2, yielding a tiny (albeit slow) Linux box that draws about 9 Watts and is absolutely...http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/28172?from=rss The power is out...- December 18, 2005 ... but the home network and wireless are still up. Go, Uninterruptable Power Supply! It's not too late to ask Santa for one (or two). One of mine is getting on in years, so I'll take advantage of post holidays sales to replace it with something beefier.http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/28047?from=rss Replace Me! (Bay Area PerlXP Job)- December 15, 2005 I'm making a career change. As a consequence, a position is opening up at AirWave Wireless in San Mateo. AirWave is a late stage startup with customers who love the product. (Here's a recent product review.) The team has been doing Agile (XP, tuned for local conditions; serious Test-Driven Development) for several years. As one indicator, we have 25% more test code by volume than we do product code. It's the best, most productive team of this size that I've ever worked with, and I'll miss...http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/28006?from=rss |