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$100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available
nerdyH sends us to LinuxDevices for a description of a tiny Linux device called the Marvell SheevaPlug. "A $100 Linux wall wart could do to servers what netbooks did to notebooks. With the Marvell SheevaPlug, you get a completely open (hardware and software) Linux server resembling a typical wall-wart power adapter, but running Linux on a 1.2GHz CPU, with 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of Flash. I/O includes USB 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, while expansion is provided via an SDIO slot. The power draw is a nightlight-like 5 Watts. Marvell says it plans to give Linux developers everything they need to deliver 'disruptive' services on the device." The article links four products built on the SheevaPlug, none of them shipping quite yet. The development kit is available from Marvell.
$100 Linux Wall-Mart now available? That would be cool.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
Why do I keep reading that as Wall-Mart?
Because they got to you.
That's funny; I see Wall-fnordWart.
I didn't understand a thing you said.
Copreehenshon is impotent too.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
"Or at least a small chunk of Nantucket, RI"
That would be no small feat, seeing as Nantucket isn't in Rhode Island.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
It is just the right size and would be disruptive.
It's always heartening when someone can't sling an insult correctly due to their own ignorance...
It's You're a stupid nigger... (the apostrophe indicates dropped letters.
For what it's worth I usually see this type of comment from someone who's trying to suppress homosexual urges involving dark-brown penises....
Requiem for the American Dream
That's just weird.
It clearly reads "fnord-fnord-wall-fnord-mart-fnord."
Requiem for the American Dream
It will be. It. Will. Be.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
How is it even possible to screw something so simple like a shopping cart? Do they add items through rpc over carrier pigeons or what?
Extreme Programming - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Developers
Agreed. There are countless uses for something like this. 2009 will be the year of Linux in the outlet! ;-)
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Does anyone know what happened to the server? It just quit responding, and when I went to check it, all I found was a cell-phone charger.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
I'm more interested in a version that supports PoE.
That would be cool! Then you could add an inverter and power the outlet strip. ;-)
You, sir, are the reason they put warning labels on toothpicks. :)
I said it before and I'll say it again:
Profanity is the last resort of desperately inarticulate motherfuckers.
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
And I just ran out of fucking mod points. Goddammit.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
a unicode fail
the device would not likely be discovered visually, given it was placed well to begin with.
But if you're going to go to the trouble of carefully hiding an electronic device somewhere in an office, would you really choose this wall wart or something else?
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
I suspect that in most places it could be there for months -- maybe years -- before anyone noticed. Make sure the drop isn't traceable to you and just collect the take as long as it goes unnoticed.
You forgot some steps...
1. Place device
2. Collect the take 'as long as it goes unnoticed'
3. ???
4. Do not pass 'go'.
5. Do not collect $200.
Or the Year Of Linux Under The Desktop.
First thing you know, someone will hack this thing and install vista on it.