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World's Smallest Linux Box Fits in RJ-45 Jack
An anonymous reader writes "German electronics company Kleinhenz is shipping a network-enabled Linux system built into an RJ-45 Ethernet jack. "Picotux" has a 55MHz ARM processor, 2MB of Flash, 8MB of RAM, a serial port, and five lines of GPIO. It measures 0.75 x 0.75 x 1.4 inches (19 x 19 x 36mm), and weighs 0.64 ounces (18 grams), packaged in a metal housing. A wireless 802.11 version appears to be on the horizon, too. So, if you've ever wanted to network-enable, say, a robot, boombox, or model airplane, this could be the system for you." Is this really the world's smallest? It looks a bit chunkier than a tiny gumstix machine.
The "nothing to see here, please move along" comment finally makes sense.
ack!
Thats faster than my Amiga 500.
Please do not eat Picotux.
in other words, imagine a 24-port network switch! :P
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
Yes but will it run Windows N
Dunno. But it might run Windows T: The official OS of Bosco Baracus. I pity the foo' who don't run dat version!
Where is the LCD screen?!
At last, someone is addressing the computer needs of a forgotten sector of society. The insensitive clods: it's just damn unfair that Arietty, Pod, and the rest have been shut out of the information age! Now, Lexmark, where's cornflake sized printer?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...will be in the next version (with appologies to Dilbert).
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Tech 1: "Hey super, we're all done replacing the melted server components after the Slashdot horde raped and pillaged us last January."
Tech 2: "It's smoking again."
Me, I'm hanging out for the mobile phone in a ring (perferably one which sends its audio signals through bone, so you literally stick your finger in your ear, talk into your ring, and away you go!)
Physicist, consultant, science communicator
Ha!
If you have a ring-phone that makes you turn invisible, crawl underground, and eat raw fish for 700 years, let me know.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Witherworth: "Jenkins!!!!"
Jenkins: "Yes Boss?"
Witherworth: "The server is DOWN. Your department spent our good money on that "Luxux" or whatever you call it. What the hell can be wrong with it?"
Jenkins: "Ermmm. sorry, sir. I sneezed and it blew out the window."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
The Linux powered asschip is a reality!
"And then I visited Wikipedia
should I patent the idea?
"Steve Jobs invented the world" -- Bill W. GATES
Michael Crichton is currently writing a book about a handful of these devices that start talking to each other and manage to take over the world.
I'm imagining a Beowolf cluster of Walmart sweaters.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
The gumstix has a larger surface area, the gumstix has a larger average visual cross section when viewed from a random angle. German shipping services like to define the size of a packet, for the purpose of determining fees, as the sum of of its dimensions.
Which is smaller - a gumstix or a sheet of paper ? If you say it's the gumstix, then the picotux is smaller.
Otherwise it does not make sense! The german postal service says the picotux is smaller, so the picotux is smaller; but what do shipping fees in Germany, which are paid in Euro, have to do with the size of the gumstix in comparison to the picotux ? And why am I comparing it to mice which are mammals which are rodents of the genus Mus as computer input devices ? It does not make sense.
Therefore you must admit the picotux is smaller.
Also do not taunt happy fun picotux
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It's the most effective kind, duh.
That thing will NEVER pass an evil packet!
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
but can you fit that bang up your bung?
"This picotux. This picotux was in your Daddy's pocket when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured and put in a Vietnamese prison camp. Now he knew if the gooks ever saw the picotux it'd be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that picotux was your birthright. And he'd be damned if and slopeheads were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His ass. Five long years, he wore this picotux up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the picotux. I hid with uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the picotux to you."
music lover since 1969
I'm holding out for the Linux enabled dental crown -- with Bluetooth. /ducks
ack! the days when you can use the excuse "sorry I ate my server" is drawing closer..
Take that Mac Mini!!
Philosophy.
It does not make sense. Chewbacca is a Wookie, but he lives on a planet full of ewoks. It does not make sense. Why would an 8 foot tall Wookie live on a planet full of 3 foot tall ewoks. If it does not make sense you must admit the picotux is smaller.
Step 1: Build gumstick format hardware. Step 2: Eat hardware. Step 3: ??????? Step 4: Profit!
i forget
.....Again! I lose my keys on a daily basis....I can imagine what I'd do with one of these
Making it a key chain would not help either...
OpenSource is only free if your time isn't worth anything
See? Because of me they have a warning.
yes but can you hide a desktop PC in your rectal cavity? Finally! A PC that can really go anywhere you do.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
This doesn't mean it will be easy to find this device once they notice the traffic.
You shouldn't forget the bash.org No. 1 quote
Linux is not Windows
Especially if Picotux is male, because eating him will spawn child processes.
I don't get it.
Why would an 8 foot tall Wookie live on a planet full of 3 foot tall ewoks?
He eats them.
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