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Mini-Box M-100
Craig Mctavern submits this link to a blurb about the Mini-Box M-100 small form-factor computer. Looks tailor-made for a home audio/visual system.
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The main lure for me is the size. I mean that thing is tiny! For some special project or around the house type things (i.e. an mp3 player for the front room) it could be useful. BUT, the $495.95 definately would make me thing twice about buying this over another (barebones-esque)system. Would the savings in my electric bill cause this to pay for itself over time?
-Valiss
The online store must be using one of these as its server.
I think I smell something melting...
"The ignorant fight to win, the wise win before they fight." -Sun Tzu
The Mini-ITX boards were reviewed on Tom's Hardware not long ago here
puts ("Python r0cks\n");
Totally. This would fit nicely into my Camaro's DIN slot. If anyone would like to buy it for me, I'll be happy to pay you back with a harrowing thrill ride, accompanied by any music you'd like.
Hmm.. sounds tempting, but do I need a mullet first?
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
"...and does floating point, so Ogg is possible."
If you will recall, the XIPH team re-wrote the Ogg decoder so that it can run on systems that can only do integer math. "Several optimizations were made that resulted in the decoder being twice as fast. We've also tuned the code to be tolerant for those who implement Vorbis using integer-only math. This allows hardware and embedded devices to more easily support Ogg Vorbis playback." http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4416.
That's nothing. My Athlon CPU uses only 1.75 volts of power! I'm taking the ugly heatsink and fan off of that sucker right now because a chip at this low voltage just doesn't need them. From now on, I'm going to run it bare to the world!
Wait a minute... I've almost got the heatsi3nk lo4ose*A#]]x(++ .=-
There's a castlerock driver in xfree 86. Now. Finally.
:)
We're talking five days ago, mind. So don't feel so bad
Two things of interest:
1, The driver is a result of via and Alan Cox working together.
2, Alan has been using an epia as his main box, and I quote:
"I have two boxes with the relevant hardware. One of them is my desktop box and I've been running the driver as my main desktop for a couple of weeks now."
Seal of approval, if ever I saw one.
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.