Mobile 3G/WiFi Router Project

Put briefly, it's a WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network) router. In more human terms, it's a compact little box that gets data from cellular towers and re-shares it for multiple computers to use.

To use it all you do is plug it in to the cigarette lighter of a car (or a 12v supply when at home). It automatically boots up and links in to Verizon's "Broadband Access" service, turning itself into an access point. Turn on your laptop, join the network and voila -- you're on the net! It's just like using a hotspot (such as they have at Starbucks and airports), but it goes anywhere you car goes.

--Tor Amundson

Read all about it...

http://moro.fbrtech.com/~tora/EVDO/index.html

Shuttle :: All Quiet on the Western Front

I just picked up & set up my new Shuttle. The scoop:

• I wanted a quiet machine
• I wanted a 64-bit AMD processor
• I wanted a small machine
• I wanted a near portable, but something something without all the compromises of a laptop -- especially support for a good monitor & keyboard; something suiable for taking to a conference or vacation
• I wanted great graphics --- perhaps for a game, but more likely for...
• rapid photo processing
• Revit use
• CAD/CAM use

I could have ordered the machine on line, but instead I spend a tiny bit more and had a local shop build it -- they build a lot of Shuttles for the gaming market. Good decision; they were fast & now I have some local experts who have a stake in keeping my machine happy.

Price is a fraction of the price of a comporable, but bigger and louder, machine from HP or (ugh) Dell. Better yet, all the components are name components & the system is designed as a system -- its not a bucket holding whatever components happend to have the best prices the week I ordered.

Of course, I'd not be quite so happy if I'd not also picked up a nice Eizo monitor to complement the Shuttle.

XAMP

Is XAMP a good starting point for LAMP/eclipse integration

Hugunin speaks at PyCon DC 2005

PyCon DC 2005 was held March 23-25, 2005.
Jim Hugunin, one of the key developers of AspectJ, is now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages for the CLR. His blog indicates he is hiring: one developer. A little slower than I'd like!
Clearly it would be cool to have one solid implementation of a dynamic language that ran on both the CLR and JVM.
Just what is the status of Python on the JVM? Perhaps Jython is closer than I think. DevX has a nice article on unit testing Jython under eclipse, although some aspects of his development environment are a bit murky.
Where is the eclipse version of Hugunin?