PocketPC Wireless Webserver

Patrick Morris writes: "I learned that I could put Linux on my iPaq... so of course I did. I did a little research and found thttpd already ported to the ARM platform... So, I've got this poor little 206mHz ARM processor with 64mb running a webserver. Hey, it's kinda cool holding a webserver in your hand and being able to walk around with it."

Comments

46 hits and not slashdotted yet?

[metacosm]

I am currently taking time (measured in seconds) until total slashdot meltdown of the poor little ipaq.

Re:46 hits and not slashdotted yet?

[mjstrom]

That burning sensation in your pocket? That's your iPaq on Slashdot....

1...2...3.... its down for the count.

Comment edited obviously

[rhadamanthus]

What he originally said was, "So, I've got this poor little 206mHz ARM processor with 64mb running a webserver, and I want to kill it"

----rhad

Re:Comment edited obviously

[errxn]

Actually, I'd love to see a webserver on an "electronic pleasure toy" that can "handle the load".

... not anymore

[darekana]

ya don't.

This guys cool, but a little nuts...

[Bryan_Casto]

Anyone ever seen an iPaq burn before?

We need a new Slashdot poll.

[Tweezer]

How long until this Ipaq is slashdoted?

30 sec.
1 min.
5 min.
10 min.
1 hr.
CowboyNeal

Up to 239 hits now.

[DysonSphere]

about a 10 second access time..

Put up some porn ;-)

Ha

[almeida]

"Hey, it's kinda cool holding a webserver in your hand and being able to walk around with it."

Right, cool until it melts in your hand and you end up looking like Johnny Tremain.

The first webserver on an IPAQ

[Mr. Sketch]

is now the first slashdotted handheld device.

Why use an iPaq?

[Grax]

when you can use a beowulf cluser of Commodore 64s?

I'm just kidding. I'm sure you'd have to write your own clustering software in C-64 basic.

what's that you're ipaq'ing?

[L. VeGas]

geek: "Hey, is that a webserver in your pocket?"

me: "No, I'm just happy to see you."

Re:what's that you're ipaq'ing?

[WolfWithoutAClause]

So, its in his trouser pocket, I just hope he hasn't got a web cam too...

"Put it away- no take it; I mean, look away loooook awayyyyy"

Obligatory visitor count post....

[Anemophilous Coward]

I reached it at 9:32am MST and it had 506 hits at that point. That was about 7 minutes or so after the /. post.

I just went back there at 9:34am and could not reach the server.

Elsewhere in a galaxy far, far away...but at the exact same time....

- "what happened? Are you alright?"
- "I just felt a great disturbance in the force. It was as if a million transistors in an IPaq all cried out at once, and then were silenced. I feel something terrible has happened."

- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance.
- AC

R.I.P.

[Mr. Sketch]

iPaq webserver
9:25am-9:35am (MDT)
May it rest in peace.

I must say though ...

[TheViffer]

/. history "might" have been made with this being the first "hand held" to feel the /. affect.

Any also why did he do it?

Because he could :-)

Re:Before this poor little thing gets mashed...

[WoofLu]

Ok.. now you can stop .. the owner has finished heating up his meal!

Personal Web Server for PocketPC was promised...

[GeneralEmergency]

...by Microsoft in the early developer kit promotion literature but it never was delivered. I suspect that the RIAA got to them and persuaded them to drop it because the last thing that they wanted to see was people sharing music/files on a mobile, wireless basis. Imagine a subway car full of people sharing music files.

Now if someone could come up with a wireless, peer-to-peer Gnutella type client....

meanwhile on irc.openprojects.net/#handhelds.org

[honeypea]

raduga> check out headlines on slashdot!
raduga> some crazy hacker has apparently managed to run linux on an ipaq!!!!
dc_> OMFG
dc_> who??
dc_> I want one!
raduga> i dunno
raduga> but slashdot seems to think its amazing
raduga> not only linux but an http server!!
raduga> and wifi!
dc_> hahaha
dc_> omg.
dc_> somone's actualy installed linux on an...
dc_> iPAQ!!
raduga> WEIRD
* honeypea goes to read :)
dc_> really
honeypea> theyre really on the ball, arent they
raduga> slashdot is news for nerds!
raduga> er. you *are* a nerd, aren't you?
honeypea> stuff that used to matter!

Slashdot - the Dr. Kevorkian of the Internet

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

Future Slashdot story:

Man Claims Development of Invulnerability Fabric
John Q. Public writes, "I just developed a new kind of fabric that renders the wearer invulnerable. I can be found at 123 Main Street, Smalltown, USA and I'll be wearing a suit made from this fabric in case anyone who reads this wants to drive by and take a shot at me."

Re:How long before...

[ncc74656]

...some clever hacker has a T-1 hooked up to the wife's electronic pleasure toy?

You'd need to find a hacker with a wife before that can happen...