{"id":1675,"date":"2007-11-30T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2007-12-19T21:43:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T01:43:11","slug":"my-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"My. Suck.s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier, I was looking for an <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openwrt.org\/OpenWrtDocs\/Hardware\/Linksys\/WRT54G\">OpenWRT<\/a> version that could run my Linksys WRT54G. This is where I found out that the hardware version of my router (&#8220;8&#8221;) isn&#8217;t supported. Aw. Apparently, Linksys switched to a propriety embedded OS, the [infamous] VxWorks. Aw<sup>2<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>There are holy wars being fought about routers, particularly which one sucks and which one doesn&#8217;t. Personally, I haven&#8217;t had many issues with Linksys hardware and the WRT54 I bought this summer (no review!) was a piece of cake to set-up. I wished I had bought the one with that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WRT54G#WRTSL54GS\">extra USB slot, though<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Talking about that infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windriver.com\/vxworks\/\">VxWorks<\/a>: it&#8217;s a real-time operating system (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VxWorks\">Wikipedia<\/a>) which is competing hard against Microsoft&#8217;s Mobile\/CE platform. It&#8217;s apparently ported to many processors and it powers (and powered) most likely your favourite spacecraft, including the Mars Pathfinder mission. There&#8217;s an interesting anecdote about how the software almost threw a kink in the cable, detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~mbj\/Mars_Pathfinder\/Mars_Pathfinder.html\">this article at Microsoft Research<\/a> (with an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~mbj\/Mars_Pathfinder\/Authoritative_Account.html\">follow-up from the JPL<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, I was looking for an OpenWRT version that could run my Linksys WRT54G. This is where I found out that the hardware version of my router (&#8220;8&#8221;) isn&#8217;t supported. Aw. Apparently, Linksys switched to a propriety embedded OS, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1675\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,2],"tags":[140,197,224,226,202,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}