Though both “nerdboys” have been out of school for quite some time we still marvel at “back to school” sales. Back in the day of course, “back to school sale” meant purely new pens, pencils and binders. (Back in the day, we also had to walk 5 miles to school, uphill both ways….)
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In this article I present a how-to for doing a simple case mod for the Alix single board computer (SBC).
Haven’t heard of the Alix yet? The Alix is actually an entire series of single board computers made by Switzerland’s PC Engines. Each Alix board features an AMD Geode LX CPU (Fig. 1) and various combinations of RAM, LAN ports, miniPCI slots and USB ports, depending on the model.
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I installed Tinyproxy 1.6.3 on my LinkSys WRT54GS router today. Following are some installation notes and comments about Tinyproxy.
My router currently runs the White Russian RC5 release of the OpenWrt Linux distribution. Tinyproxy is not yet an officially supported OpenWrt package. Rather, it is part of the “backports” package repository. To install Tinyproxy, I first had to add the backports repository to my repository list by adding the following line to my /etc/ipkg.conf file: …Continue reading » Tinyproxy on WRT54GS

After months of begging, I finally bought my wife a notebook computer. It’s a Toshiba A100-SK4 (manufacturer’s part number: PSAA8C-SK400E). Here are the specs: …Continue reading » Toshiba A100-SK4 – First Impressions
