{"id":220,"date":"2008-04-23T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2008-04-23T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T19:23:45","slug":"little-computers-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/220","title":{"rendered":"Little computers everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty interested in watching the proliferation of little computers everywhere. Here&#8217;s the latest example I saw: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxdevices.com\/news\/NS3029401981.html\">Linux firewall machine<\/a> that fits inside your Windows laptop. I don&#8217;t exactly love the architecture of this particular beast (redirecting network traffic out to the firewall and back in via a hacked-up network driver), though I understand why they did it that way. But it is an interesting thing to contemplate how such nested\/cohabitating computers can add neat little features to the mobile lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>With my latest mobile computing acquisitions, I&#8217;m becoming really fond of little semi-specialized general-purpose computers all over. If I want to go light, I can have my phone with me and still have very basic web browsing and email capabilities. If I want a few more features, I can add the internet tablet to the mix. If I have to do real work, I can add the laptop, or sometimes the laptop and the internet tablet. Pretty much mix-n-match, because they&#8217;re all good standalone and they synergize nicely when used together. They also all have some means of accessing the Internet and getting to my servers and a million others, which further extends the synergy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty interested in watching the proliferation of little computers everywhere. Here&#8217;s the latest example I saw: a Linux firewall machine that fits inside your Windows laptop. I don&#8217;t exactly love the architecture of this particular beast (redirecting network traffic out to the firewall and back in via a hacked-up network driver), though I understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}