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

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

The first webserver on an IPAQ

[Mr. Sketch]

is now the first slashdotted handheld device.

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...