Dreamcast Web Server Running Off Memory Card

Adrian writes "I have written a new file system for Linux - to read and write files on the Sega Dreamcast's visual memory unit (VMU)- a small slab of flash memory used by the console to save game files. To see it in action - and see a DC serve some html, go to the Landslide test server - though I have no doubt that micro_http, the web server I am using (said to be the world's smallest), will result in the quickest Slashdotting in history :)" Gentlemen, start your mirrors now.

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Huh?

[SuperBanana]

Gentlemen, start your mirrors now.

Huh? The content isn't the point. It's the device serving it. So, unless those mirrors are runnin' on Sega Dreamcasts, the novelty is gone.

JHU used to have an ancient Mac IIcx(not even a IIci) running MacBSD, about the only thing it ever did(I think) was serve up a picture of the Cruise Basselope, which, for a slow-as-molassis MacBSD box, kinda makes for an appropriate mascot.

Color

[mondoterrifico]

Offtopic I know, but does anyone like this color scheme for the gaming section? Maybe it's because i'm getting older but it seriously bothers my eyes, and looks like crap.

Re:DC Server Down

[Zork the Almighty]

Inetd is an internet "superserver". For traditional, high use sites people usually run a dedicated service, or daemon, to provide the service. This daemon runs in the background listening for requests and doing whatever it is supposed to do. If your have to offer a lot of services (http, ftp, telnet, mail, ssh, etc...), but none of them are used very much, an internet superserver is a better way to go. Inetd sits in the background listening on a whole bunch of ports waiting for a request. When it gets an ftp request, it starts the ftp server to handle the request(s), and shuts it down after. This sort of thing will allow you to run lots of services on a very slow computer. Unfortunately, because of all the starting and stopping, none of those services can handle a high volume.

I wanna know one thing though....

[johny_qst]

I get that its neat to have a dreamcast serving webpages but why is this under games.slashdot.org? Start serving a php game off that dreamcast and then you found the right slashdot section otherwise...

the sad part about this slashdotting

[Anonymous Coward]

is that if Sega was still in the hardware business, their hardware people would be working on gigabit maple bus (controller/vmu ports) for their next console.

Poor Sega.

why didn't he run it off a cd?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dreamcast had no security when it came to running software off of a burned cd. Why didn't he come up with a way to run linux off of a burned cd. He then could have used the memory card for something else.

Subscribers get to see them pre-DDoS

[fmaxwell]

If the web site survives the Slashdot subscriber Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, then the unwashed masses at Slashdot will let loose with a full-fury DDoS.

Unlike most posters, this guy gave permission for Slashdot to DDoS him. On other sites, some poor schmuck running a small web server on his DSL or cable modem is crushed by the traffic, his connection is toast, and his ISP might threaten to cut him off. On small sites being hosted by low-cost providers, the Slashdotting often results in the web site being taken down or, worse, in the person being billed for the traffic.

When will Slashdot start behaving responsibly and get permission to link to small servers? (In this story the web site owner volunteered permission.) It's doing a disservice to Slashdot readers and website owners alike to provide a link knowing that the result with be a DDoS that takes the site down.