August 12, 2004

All is Quite

Two of my favorite literary quotes of all time come from “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque. I ran into them a couple days ago and thought I would share:

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

–Chapter 10

“The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.”

–Chapter 12

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Where is GRUB when you need it

Ever wanted to know how to reverse engineer an embedded device?  Two spectacular articles by Jim Buzbee walk you though getting system level access and installing alternative services on a Linksys NSLU2.  The articles do a great job of teaching you the ins-and-outs of accessing Linux based embedded devices.  You can follow future progress (and future tutorials) from Jim’s NSLU2 website.

The other great link gleamed from the NSLU2 tutorials is to Dan Kegel’s Cross Platform build chain script.  Historically building cross-toolchain for use in embedded systems development was frustratingly difficult. Dan has this process fairly easy.  With two-thirds of embedded devices running Linux , the two tutorials and Dan’s script make for a perfect introduction into the world of embedded systems.

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