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I went looking for something like this a few months ago but I seemed to miss the USB-over-IP project over at Sourceforge.  This project implements a virtual USB stack on one side that receives USB events from another system.

This would be a great project to combine with a Linksys NSLU2: a USB-over-IP server for less than $100.

Three spools of wire and CDN$ 470 later, I’ve got 1000 ft of Cat 5e and RG6 (both fire-rated) and 300 meters of 14 gauge fire-rated audio wiring. 

If anyone is considering a home wiring project, this is a good time.  Home Depot has some 10% off in-store coupons good ’til the 17th.

We’re building a new home and I’ve decided that I’m going to do the audio part of the structured wiring myself.  Some interesting things I’ve learning in my research:

I’ve had a chance to play around with Fedora Core 4 for a week and it’s turning out to be one of the best Fedora releases out-of-the-box.

It doesn’t look much different that Fedora Core 3 did.  The biggest changes under the hood are the updates to the Xorg and kernel packages, as well as compiling everything for GCC 4.0.  My desktop looks identical to the one that Fedora Core 3 showed me, with the exception of the new “Places” and “Desktop” menus - the two new top-level menus that come from the latest Gnome iteration.

I spent a few hours this weekend converting my entire Fedora Core 3 system over to EVMS.  The advantage over using one of the other alternatives like the bdclaim patch is that EVMS can manage your root filesystem.  This lets you alter the underlying storage of your root filesystem, including “hotswapping” one storage device for another without having to boot to a shell.

It isn’t straightforward getting this working in Fedora Core.  You’ll need to do some initrd hacking to get it up and running. 

Here’s what you need to do.  Note that this assumes that you are running the same kernel that you’ll be booting: