For about a year I have been looking for a solution to my problem. I wanted a server, I could have used an old PC knocking around but I have there's a few conditions this solution would not have met. I needed something quite (I want it in my bedroom), small and with a low power consumption, ohh and it has to be cheap too

I was looking at building a Micro ATX computer but I decided that even an 800MHz ATX computer was too expensive and not very energy efficient for what I wanted, plus the cases are often quite big.

I have been looking at small linux devices, things like NAS devices which run on Linux and can be used as a server. This sounded great, all I needed to do was splash out around £50 for the NAS, connect and USB HD and mod it. However the modding of it put me off, I'm still a novice when it comes to hardcore Linux usage, that is I'd struggle with it if I had to compile software for it's ARM platform. Afterall this particular NAS was not intended to be a server and so the hack for it could be messy.

Then I found it on eBay, the Netwinder 2100. Small, fast enough for what I wanted built in 10GB HD. A machine built to be a server running Linux. This was better than hacking a NAS or router as there should be no complications. I managed to get it for around £50 quid, seems they used to retail for £500. I say used to because they are no longer in production as the company went bust.

When it arrives I hope to move my blog to my own server and set up FTP, SSH, an IMAP server and what ever else I fancy trying my hand at



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Dugahole Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Joined: 27/03/05	Sounds like you have done very nicely there Deus. Bit of a bargin. When do you suppose it will arrive? By the way, I attempted to put a feed on my blog...I am fairly sure that it was unsuccesful. I have no idea why... I followed the 'simple' process and it didnt work I will keep playing around with it though.

Chris Location: West Midlands, UK Joined: 24/03/05	Probably in about a week, I'll post when I get my hands on it I have no idea how you go about adding RSS feeds to a Blogger account, if you want to give me the address of the RSS feed though I'll tell you if it works for me.

Psycho275 Location: UK Joined: 12/06/05	Sounds good, Deus! Dugahole: Blogger provides an ATOM feed - If you want an RSS feed, you might have to use something like feedburner.

Dugahole Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Joined: 27/03/05

Well yes, as far as I can find out blogger provides an atom feed by default it just isnt very well advertised...you can turn it on and off in the setting though. Mine is turned on yet the feed doesnt seem to work. I had originally planned to direct it through feedburner but it cannot validate the feed. http://dugahole.blogspot.com/ is my blogs address and the feeds address is http://dugahole.blogspot.com/atom.xml Any ideas as to what might be wrong?

Psycho275 Location: UK Joined: 12/06/05	I've had a quick look on feedburner (entered your feed, but didn't want to register it), and it appears to have read your blog name correctly.

Chris Location: West Midlands, UK Joined: 24/03/05	Thanks for the link Dug! Works perfectly in Lifrerea

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