> News
-- May 30th, 2010Added the articles on the death of the Guruplug Server Plus. -- Dec 29th, 2007
Added the articles on how to build an UPS for ALIX and how to enable short-term RTC time-keeping using a capacitor.
-- Nov 19th, 2006
Added the Load Balancing article.
-- Oct 8th, 2006
Added the Linux/NSLU2 article.
> Articles
Here are a few articles that I have written on various subjects. Most of them are between publications and reviews. When I have gathered enough of them, I will classify them in categories.
- Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 : Originally, this is a small cheap NAS server costing around $100. It runs Linux on a StrongARM processor and has one 10/100 Mbps interface. It's easy to mod it for various usages.
- Making applications scalable with Load Balancing : An article I wrote for a magazine in mid-2006 but which finally was not published because it was slightly out of the magazine's scope. When I have time, I'll make it as a whole PDF.
- How to build a cheap UPS for PC Engines ALIX : The ALIX is a very nice motherboard designed by PC Engines. This article explains how to build a cheap UPS for this motherboard.
- How to add a capacitor to keep RTC running on PC Engines ALIX : The ALIX is a very nice motherboard designed by PC Engines. This article explains how to use a capacitor for time-keeping instead of a lithium battery.
- GuruPlug Server Plus : don't waste your money on it! : The GuruPlug Server Plus from GlobalScale at first glance appears to be a nice server for home usage. However, it suffers from extremely poor design, heats so much that it hurts when you touch metal parts, it is slower than an ALIX, and its half-baked Linux installation does not help at all.
> Various links
- http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ : the official site about Linux on NSLU2.
- http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm : the ALIX motherboards at PC Engines.
- http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ : HAProxy, the Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
- ALOHA : a commercial implementation of HAProxy in a fast and robust appliance.
> Contacts
- Contact me :
Willy TARREAU