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.

Comments

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...