Of Gumdrops and Gumsticks

Today we got a Gumstix device. It’s a very small arm based embedded device with aparently no usable network support. It had “support” for bluetooth, which anyone who has tried to do networking using bluetooth can tell you DOESN’T WORK. It’s good for simple inter-device communication, but not for what we want it to do. All I need is a small embedded linux device with wifi support and a serial port. Oh and ~200$ US. Aparently thats hard to come by, we have another device, which pretty much fits the bill except its too expensive.
In other news, C#’s DataSets are again rocking. Not to mention being able to run specific “applications” in seperate server-side processes. It helps when you want to do reporting from a machine that MUST process realtime information.