Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities

davidmwilliams writes "Every geek and technology lover will undoubtedly have stumbled across online adverts for tiny headless Linux-powered devices that are barely larger than the power point they plug into. What can you actually do with them? Plenty, it seems!"

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Can we count?

[qoncept]

Can we count the reasons this article sucks?

Of course, you can even run your own web site using Apache on a plug computer.

Great. Now my website is dependent on my internet connection and power. Geeks that want this so bad that they'll do it even though its completely pointless have a PC already running that could do this job much better.

or run a site to monitor other sites!

Yeah. More often than not, if your site is reported as "down," it's probably your wall wart. Nevermind the fact that, again, this might as well be running on your already-running PC.

could be a media server, a file server or print server for your network.

Fair enough, but there already a number of cheaper dedicated options for these, that most likely use less power and work better.

DropBox ... set up a wall wart and USB hard drive as your own private FTP server, accessible from any location.

Really?! It's idiots like this that think they get it, but never create anything even slightly user friendly and useful like DropBox. To compare the two is to completely miss the point of DropBox.

Re:A file server? Really?

[slaxative]

Easy. Mount an nfs share from another box. Bam, more storage space.