Shuttle SS50 Mini-system

Jared writes: "Small Form Factor is taking off, Viahardware wrote a review on the new Shuttle SS PC. In a case about the size of a shoebox, you get Pentium 4 support, DDR memory, firewire, tv out etc. Great box for all kinds of uses like a media box for the living room, file server, gateway, LAN box. Slashdot posted about the SV24 last fall, and this is the follow up product. Very cool." We've looked at some other Shuttle systems before.

Comments

Finally..

[Str8Dog]

a case for my DirecTV Emulator that doesn't look like I raided radioshack! Sweet does it come in black.

Re:Finally..

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, nice to meet you Str8Dog. This is Dave calling, just wannted to know when the feds should stop by.

Okay . . .

[cjpez]

. . . that's pretty cool, but still, give me a huge freaking tower any day. I don't mind carting aroud a behemoth of a case so long as I've got enough room to live in there if need be. :)

Re:Okay . . .

[foobar104]

give me a huge freaking tower any day

It's not really a huge freaking tower unless it's at least six feet tall. My all-time favorite workstation is the SGI Onyx 2 rack*. Six feet tall, bright purple, noisy as can be. The Onyx 3000 systems are okay, but there's just something inherently cool about the Onyx 2. It's what the French call, "I don't know what."

And the shipping crate is big enough for two people to stand up in. Well, for me anyway. I'm about 5'6".

* Scroll down a bit to find Onyx 2 pics. I didn't think anybody would appreciate it if I linked directly to an 11 MB TIFF.

Re:I would love to buy one ...

[m_chan]

You can. The SS40 answers your question.

Re:Long overdue

[Chundra]

Laptops have been around forever, and since I have yet to open one up, it's a mystery to me how they keep them so cool!

Well, the general consensus is that if you use shiny or transluscent materials, and maybe slap an "i" or "e" on the front of the product's name it becomes cool.

Now you know.

Useful areas

[halftrack]

Other useful areas are:
* Hack it to become a car media player with full featured video and dvd player.
- Why: it would fit easily in a car. Fun. Games possible.
- How: embedd small LCD's into the back of the seats.

* Controll device for robots.
- Why: robots are cool. Easy to program. Cheap CPU-power.
- How: simple relay control using the FireWire, USB or serial interfaces.

* Use it for anything you'd like:
- Why: it's a regular computer. Computers aren't tools. Tools are built for a purpose and purpose means you're locked at a target. Hammers are used to hammer nails, kettles; to cook potatos in, computers; to do anything.

viahardware's server

[asv108]

Anyone else impressed with how well this site is taking on the traffic of slashdot? Usually niche sites like viahardware go down in an instant or slow down to a crawl especially when the review is so graphics intensive. My congrats go out to Viahardware.com's sysadmin, we have have been defeated.

Re:viahardware's server

[EL_CID_13]

Thank you, Having managed anandtech database servers for a time (I was part of the initial design team when he moved to a pure db format way back when) I have a little experience in this area. All of this traffic is being handled by two servers with an lvs load balancer in the middle. If anyone wants to chat about loaded webservers just gimme a shout.

Sam

I'll express my excitement in haiku form...

[MonkeyBot]

Small box under desk, Promiscuous mode net card, Silently watch boss.

Bewoulf ?

[ajaygautam]

Perfect size for a Bewoulf component :)

Check out the even smaller mini-ITX platform

[swordboy]

Check out the new mini-ITX platform that VIA has put together. Supposed to be fanless and under $100 with processor. If someone doesn't sit down and develop a Linux based set of appliance firmware, then Microsoft will fill yet another market. 3D will be damn cheap soon enough and will become part of these products.

Re:for the love of god people!

[lkaos]

"A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much... What are a hundred [philanthropers] to us, if their philanthropy do not help us in our best state, when we are most worthy to be helped?"

- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

Philanthropy does not improve humanity. Sharing ideas with other intellegent people truely does improve humanity. Free Software is about open collabration which leads to ideas being innovated and advanced in a far greater manner than a single person could ever accomplish. We succeed as a species not because we are individually great but because together we become great.

I respect someone who devotes their life selflessly to helping the poor survive, but I admire someone who devotes their life selflessly to the advancement of humanity.

8100 realtek = 8139 realtek

[Indy1]

the 8100 is basically the same as the 8139, its simply a motherboard version of the 8139. So i think you can just use the 8139 driver in linux.

If the kernel driver doesnt work, try the driver posted below, its a direct link to realtek's linux driver

ftp://ftp.realtek.com.tw/lancard/drivers/8139/li nu x24x-8139cp(101).zip