I suspect the world would be better if that percentage were even greater.
Turbo Slug
In a previous weblog posting, I mentioned that I had bought a Linksys NSLU2 NAS (networked attached storage) device that I was hacking away on. I recently dusted it off and started playing with it again, after installing the unslung firmware that lets you run linux on it. What was curious was that I had mentioned previously that the slug (as they are affectionately called) was a 266mhz ARM processor. But I found out recently that Linksys included jumpers to effectively run the processor at half speed.
But you can fix that by snipping out a surface mount resistor (I just cut it out with an exacto knife). Total mod time: approximately two minutes (once I read the page on how to open the case). Net result: double speed NSLU2.
Cute.
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Time 9/30/2005 at 11:00 am
an 80 GB drive for under $100 and you can build a nice little (and quiet) server running Linux, and once you’re running Linux, well, you open up a whole new world of possibilities… Some links: Fun with SLUGs Turbo Slug Brainwagon Radio: New, but Still Noisy Recording and the NSLU2 TomsNetworking: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 Linux on the NSLU2 nslu2-general Yahoo! Group nslu2-linux Yahoo! Group How to Set up an NSLU2 with a Mac