The Joys Of Porting

Gambit Thirty-Two writes "Old news, but Sendmail has ported their MTA to Linux390." And in other news: sitz writes "It would appear as though some madman has port apache to WinCE <Insert witty beowulf comment here>. It's only been tested on a couple of platforms (including the Jornada 720, and is 'based on the WinNT port, with lots of dirty modifications'. That's still pretty swanky. I've also set up a mirror of this site, which will be up for a couple of weeks." Update: 08/27 15:19 PM GMT by H : Yes, the Sendmail story is a dupe - somebody didn't read my story before posting his. *grin*

Comments

Re:SQL Server for WinCE

[purplemonkeydan]

You can also get IBM DB2 Everyplace for PocketPC, Palm, Linux and a few others. SQL Server for CE is the same sort of principle.

Basically, you sync database data to the PDA. You write apps for the PDA that use and/or change this data, and when you sync, it syncs the database both ways.

Re:too late again!

[Lxy]

does anyone have any info on getting an abacus to use wireless ethernet?

I can't find a good article on it, but you could use the sounds made from the abacus as a modem. Granted, it'd be a slower connection but it would be wireless to several feet. The sounds made by an abacus are more digital than analog so you could send an audible digital tone (a series of clicks) and use a speaker on the Betamax (long live beta!) to recieve the signal. Just set up PPP on /dev/audio and you should be able to run a room's length wirelessly. Just don't tell /. about it, I'd hate to see your abacus get DDoS'd.