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A pair of shades, a bunch of quarters and a beautiful copilot to name just a few. That being said, some of those necessities can easily be kept in your car’s trunk (we’d strongly advise against the third). If you’re looking for the perfect trunk, however, we’d suggest loading it with these things: Top 10 Hardware Boosting Hacks. I just did the pogoplug hack this weekend. The LH article is outdated, but the info is available online at ArchLinuxARM.org. I'm not sure rooting a pogoplug is worth the bother now. Rasberry Pi is now available, unless $30, two extra USB ports and Gigabit ethernet is critically important, the RasPi blows the pogoplug out of the water (the additional IO is nice, but the real win is a larger developer community).
I did get a pogoplug with the intention of rooting it but realised that its was much more useful to me as it stood. I realize this is article is a few days old, but I just wanted to second this. Now I've just got to figure out what I want to put on it... It's a fun project. I tried running Subsonic, which I used to serve up media from my old computer, but the pogoplug doesn't seem to have enough horsepower for on-the-fly LAME transcoding. How To Choose the Right Extension Cord for Anything. What Awesome Things Still Require a Wire? Does Plugging In Even Matter Anymore? Although Gigabit Wifi standards may be soon to arrive, it's unlikely you'll actually see such speeds in practical scenarios.
The bandwidth specification for each wifi standard is merely intended to standardize maximum bandwidth between devices. Not as an aproximation of the speeds you'll actually get. For example, if you were to put your laptop right beside a Wireless G router (54 mbps bandwidth), you'd probably only get about 20 mbps speeds, maybe much worse depending on the router. That's because a lot of the routers potential bandwidth is consumed by low-level processes, such as beaconing, CTS/RTS, etc. Then a further amount is lost when you get signal interference (which causes packets to "drop", requiring them to be re-sent), which of course is always present to a certain degree, and then there's simply signal degradation as you get farther away from the router. I'd expect that the average Gigabit router will only perform at around 200-300 mbps, even in ideal conditions. For Phone/PC by L8 SmartLight. Mashable - "This unusual and useful box can silently notify you of just about anything that happens on the Internet... you’ll be surprised at all it can do" CNET - "One box and 65 LEDs make getting your e-mail, smartphone, and social-networking alerts a whole lot more fun with a whole lot less noise.
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