Comments on: Proxies In The Way Of Testing

By: Mark Crowley

Mark Crowley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:20:03 +0000

Nifty device with a very, very low price point. Interestingly, searching the big G for ” Viglen MPC-L” yields a 2 place position for your colleague Tony Whitmore’s review of the device @ http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2008/08/18/viglen-mpc-l-well-worth-79/
Thanks for the heads up.

By: popey

popey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:37:29 +0000

I have a Viglen MPC-L – well two in fact. One is my firewall running Ubuntu, the other is a general purpose device that I can ssh to and it does local backups too.

By: Mark Crowley

Mark Crowley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:24:59 +0000

Thanks Alan for the well put together post. I can think of more than a few uses for this.
Any clue as to what your 8W server hardware is? Mine is a http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/other-products/ fit-pc slim @ 5W but am always interested to see what others have come up with.

By: Paul Tansom

Paul Tansom — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:53:06 +0000

There were supposed to be TABs after the inv and ser in that. Shouldn't have used diamond braces though I guess!

By: Paul Tansom

Paul Tansom — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:51:23 +0000

I tend to work on the basis of typing inv, so not a major hassle. Services looks interesting though – ser – from the code it uses invoke-rc.d and adds a few extra twiddly bits – a wrapper round a wrapper!