Monthly Archives: June 2011

Boot a Kernel over Serial with U‑Boot and Kermit

I’m doing a lit­tle bit of work that involves fre­quent­ly rebuild­ing the Linux ker­nel and installing it on a head­less ARM board. The par­tic­u­lar ARM board I’m work­ing with has some ven­dor sup­port for flash­ing ker­nels, but it’s slow and clunky, and I have to run it inside a Windows XP VM. The ARM board […]

Telecommuting Has Benefits, Too

Recently I’ve run across a few arti­cles (on Hacker News and else­where) about the draw­backs of telecom­mut­ing. I agree that there are draw­backs, but I believe that they can be coun­ter­bal­anced by the ben­e­fits under the right cir­cum­stances. The Right Circumstances Not every per­son is cut out to telecom­mute, and not every job is suitable […]