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KuroBox has arrived!

It wasn't another love letter after all, the FedEx guy brought me the Kurobox I had ordered. Most excellent. What is a Kurobox? It's a Network Storage box that holds a hard drive. It has a 200MHz PPC processor, 64Mb of RAM, and 4MB of Flash memory. It contains an embedded Linux OS.

What does it do? Well, it stores files. You can mount it as a volume from your Mac, or you can connect to it via ftp. You can telnet into the box to boss it around. Since it runs on Linux, it can also run the popular Apache webserver, and mySQL.

It comes with a webserver built in and by default uses that to serve up the admin section. The admin section is written entirely in Japanese, but fortunately, there are others who have translated it. or at least enough of it to use.

My future plans for it are to install Apache, and MySQL, and use it not only to back-up some data and free up some space on my Powerbook, but use it as a test server as well. It can also be used as an iTunes server, so that might be on the way too! Oh, and it also has a USB port, and I've read where people have used webcams and other peripherals with it. So maybe I'll use it as a print server. That would be nice to be able to print wirelessly.

More Kuro to come as I play with it!

under:: Kurobox
Posted on: 2005-02-18

Comments:

I have that

There's a bottle of that here. The last time I touched it was before I had wisdom teeth pulled, I swirled it around a bit to numb the gums of the painful area.

Maybe I'll open up that bottle again! Should I wait until noon though, I don't want to sent the wrong impression. tee hee.

Posted by:: john
on:: 2005-02-17 08:44:11

I don't have a title

I just wanted to say get well soon. And I accidentally hit enter before I was able to type that. Stupid fingers getting ahead of me.

Posted by:: PuddleMonkey
on:: 2005-02-17 13:38:39

Thanks!

Aw shucks, thanks!

I had chicken noodle soup for lunch, and I'm takin' it real easy.

Posted by:: john
on:: 2005-02-17 14:52:44

ooooooooo

oooooooh.

Oh, and are these comments remembering my info based on a session? 'cause it'll remember me after putting in a comment but not when I come back...

Posted by:
on:: 2005-02-18 17:46:08

Oh,

Yeah, the info...

Posted by:: Shawn Parker
on:: 2005-02-18 17:46:30

cookies?

It's supposed to be a cookie, but it seems to not be working as desired for non-me folk.

I'll have to see what's causing that.

Posted by:: john
on:: 2005-02-18 19:24:36

odd

It remembered me after I quit and relaunched the browser, perhaps I'll quit for a while and see if that changes. (I'm not logged in as an admin)

Posted by:: john
on:: 2005-02-18 19:25:55

It just remembered me...

So, I'm not sure what's goin' on...

Posted by:: Shawn Parker
on:: 2005-02-18 23:58:02

time()+X

I did my math poorly. I was setting the cookie to expire in time()+36000, which amounts to basically 100 hours. I think.

I just peeked at the php manual, and changed it to time()+60*60*24*365, which should be one year. Hopefully, that'll solve it.

btw, here's the snippet that does it in case you wanted to, say, add this functionality to your blog:

	$ustore = serialize(array($username, $useremail, $userwww, $userpass));
setcookie('jpblog', $ustore, time()+60*60*24*365,'/','',0);

Posted by:: john
on:: 2005-02-19 06:44:30

This article is closed to further commentary. But you can always contact me directly.

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