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Pico-ITX, Because Size Matters
An anonymous reader writes "It's not every day that a new form factor comes out, especially not one that is 10cm x 7.2cm. Despite its size, Pico-ITX is the hottest new thing in the rapidly changing small form factor market. It is considerably smaller than Mini-ITX (17cm x 17cm) which has proven itself to be quite versatile and though some sacrifices had to be made to shrink the platform, Pico-ITX is surprisingly complete. The system was tested with Feather Linux but the PX10000 has the power to run Windows XP or Ubuntu if you want to add on a hard drive."
If you read TFS (not even TFA), it said it was tested with Feather Linux, and could run Ubuntu if you added a hard drive.
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
... then I think I would try Gumstix for non-speed critical apps.
PC/104 SBC boards are usually fanless and about the same size. Only the procesors on PC/104 boards tend to be underpowered. Example
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
I think that the fact that it appears longer than 10cm on the ruler is that the ruler is not on the edge closest to the camera taking the picture resulting in a different aspect ratio between the closest edge (the edge you can see in the picture) and the ruler itself. They really should have arranged the picture better.
I hate printers.
I setup a net4801 in a colo rack to route traffic for 20 vlans via 802.1q to a 48 port switch. Durring testing I was able to push 45Mbit of traffic through the system. I've got a couple of net5501's on order.. mostly I wanted more ram/CPU so I could try pushing BGP feeds to the soekris.
I use them. They're big in "THIN CLIENTS".
For a project of mine, I need a small data collection PC to be used in the field. I use thin client machines based on the same chip. I pay under $500 for a machine finished nicely with reasonable video, sound, usb, network ports, mini-pci for wifi, and a big heat sink on top. There is no fan in the unit, and it uses flash ram instead of a hard disk. Mine come with 512megs of ram, windows XPe, and 1gb of flash drive for storage. With no moving parts they last a long time, and the use about 20 watts of power rather than about 220 for a typical desktop pc.
They are also available (cheaper) with linux embedded, but in my case the app they run is written for XP and until I have time to re-write it, that's what I need.
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The answer in the short term to the lack of cases for the job is very simple: Lego and superglue.
This has always been an option for any form factor, but of course it quickly becomes impractical as Lego does not scale all that well when strength is a concern. With a motherboard this size though, the hard drive or optical drive are going to be the constraint on how small the case can be.
Another viable option is to use a case designed for an optical drive. Once the supplied electronics are gutted (and possibly used elsewhere), it should be possible to shoehorn this board, a 3.5" drive, and a slimline optical drive in there. All you'd have to hack would be the front and back panels, which is pretty trivial with Lexan and a rotary tool.
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How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.