The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as a building block in embedded applications. The CM-X270W has all the components required to run operating systems such as Linux and Windows CE. Ready packages for these operating systems are available from CompuLab.
$52 each in quantities of 1,000. Anyone want to sell me just one?
Tech-Recipes.com – ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives
The much anticipated release of the new ZFS filesystem in Solaris 10 will revolutionize the way system administrators (and executives) think about and work with filesystems.
Apache2 SSL and Subversion in Debian
Debian Sarge comes with an apache2 package. I thought I’d give this a go to get it working with a self signed SSL certificate. However, I had little idea of what I was doing. Eventually I worked it out – and it’s easy:
Handy howto on setting up Apache2, SSL, and SVN in 683 seconds. I’m quite certain it took me much less than that to copy and paste all the commands but it worked well and was easy.
My Soekris Net 4521 got here Tuesday and I’ve now had a few days to play with it. I’m quite impressed with quality of the board and it’s perfomance. I’ve got it booting the Stompbox version of Pebble Linux off a 128MB CF card.
It’s equipped with two pc-card slots and one mini-PCI slot. The cpu is an AMD 486 at 133Mhz and it’s loaded with 64MB of RAM. The whole thing runs off of 12-54V DC so it can be powered quite nicely in the car or with most any wall wart you have laying around. One of the PC-Card slots is taken up with my EVDO card (cellular broadband internet). I hope to put a USB adapter in the 2nd slot and put a wifi adapter in the mini-PCI.
I had some issues getting dnscache to listen on port 53 so I tossed it out and installed dnsmasq. I’ve got it routing the local net to the internet over EVDO and just need to find a mini-PCI wifi card with a Prism2 chipset to make it replace my WIFI Access Point.
I’ll post a proper howto sometime in the near future and give some updates on how it performs when we’re camping this weekend.