Archive for October, 2007

Tiny PCs for the embedded servers

Friday, October 12th, 2007

In this post I am planning to gather information about various small PCs suitable for building little embedded servers running Linux. The information will be updated from time to time.

fit-PC
AMD CPU, 256Mb DDR (non-expandable), 40Gb HDD, 2×100 Mbit Ethernet, 2xUSB 2.0, RS-232
Power consumption: 5 watt (!)
Cost: $285 + $40 shipping
decTOP
128 Mb [...]

Nick on “Joel on Software”

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Recently I have found a book in my company’s library. The cover looked funny so I was curious enough to open the table of contents and then quickly scan through a couple of pages. Both topics and the language used in the book convinced me to take it home and I have finished in in [...]

Hidden costs of using Java String methods

Friday, October 5th, 2007

What can be easier than to replace a fragment of a string with another fragment in Java? Right, this sounds extremely simple. But, as it frequently happens, it turns out to be not that simple. Especially if you imagine that you need to perform the same replacement hundreds of thousands times in row. Like with [...]