Netpliance used to have a product called iopener, which was essentially a small PC with an LCD display and a flash disk. CPU is usually an IDT Pentium clone at around 180-200MHz. It comes with USB ports and uses an external DC power supply. It sounds like it could fit the bill fairly well.
If you're lucky you might be able to find enough of these used to build your project around them, at least if it's a limited batch of 20-30 units. They usually sell in the $50-$80 range on eBay and surplus stores.
While this story is similar to recent stories about Apple using Power4-based IBM chips in future Macs, the GPUL, unlike the Power4, is smaller, runs cooler and consumes far less power
Uhm, GigaProcessor and POWER4 is the same thing, different names. GP was the internal name. It still sounds like GPUL is POWER4-based, just not a repackaging of the exact same processor.
So, as far as I can remember, the first web search engine out there was lycos, written by someone at MIT(?). I even had the source code for the web crawler, I might still have it around.
Did altavista buy that crawler to get the around the prior art issue, or would this be another piece of prior art?
I need to see if I still have the files around, but I'm afriad they might be gone.:(
There is a risk of misunderstanding when it comes to Nokia phones in the US vs Europa.
I have recently moved from Sweden to the US, and I had a 6150 in Sweden. I really liked it, the metal case made it very rugged, and the UI was excellent.
However, when I moved, I got stuck with an AT&T Nokia 61x0 (6190? Can't remember). Plastic case, no button on the side of the phone to adjust volume, and crappy UI. The phone beeps every now and then when you select options, etc etc. I know Sprint has a metal case Nokia, which looks alot better. I don't know how the UI differs though. I would expect that the Pac Bell and Omnipoint Nokias have the same UI as the Europena GSM models, since they should all have the same software.
I don't have much to compare to between Nokias and other mobiles here in the US, but from what I have seen I am in general not impressed.
Another thing: If you have coverage in your are, pick a GSM operator! (Arial, Omnipoint, Pac Bell, Voice Stream). The technology is superior, and the quality is better. I _never_ got a phonecall cut off using a GSM phone. With D-AMPS it happens every week. SMS is also a very nice feature with GSM.
I just called, my unit shipped yesterday. When I asked if I would still be subject to the new terms and conditions, I got the answer (from the customer service person) that I was.
However... This would mean that I would not receive the same product that I ordered, and that I never agreed upon these new terms and conditions upon ordering the product. Right?
I guess they might have wrapped the unit the same way lots of software is distrubuted -- by breaking the shipping package you agree upon the terms...
I went to my local Circuit City in San Mateo, and they checked all surrounding stores. Every single one of them was out of stock. As most of you probably already have noticed, so is www.circuitcity.com. Shipping for orders from www.netpliance.com is a whopping $39 dollars.
The fact that you have to send as many packets as the recipient of the DoS attack is true, but from how I interpret the announcement, no matter how small the UDP packet is a 1500 byte ICMP packet will always be returned.
This is a bit odd. Why 1500 bytes? It is the MTU for Ethernet, but I can't really see how that should affect the size of the ICMP error message. Maybe the fellows at Apple made an error in the internal coding of packet length, and the ICMP error-return code included the sent packet and then garbage up until the 1500 byte limit.
However, it can never be as destructive as a smurf attack (unless you have a whole subnet filled with Macs running OS9 _and_ they answer with this ICMP on broadcast packets to the specific port). Also, if it is only one specific UDP port, it is pretty easy to block in firewalls.
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Netpliance used to have a product called iopener, which was essentially a small PC with an LCD display and a flash disk. CPU is usually an IDT Pentium clone at around 180-200MHz. It comes with USB ports and uses an external DC power supply. It sounds like it could fit the bill fairly well.
If you're lucky you might be able to find enough of these used to build your project around them, at least if it's a limited batch of 20-30 units. They usually sell in the $50-$80 range on eBay and surplus stores.
While this story is similar to recent stories about Apple using Power4-based IBM chips in future Macs, the GPUL, unlike the Power4, is smaller, runs cooler and consumes far less power
Uhm, GigaProcessor and POWER4 is the same thing, different names. GP was the internal name. It still sounds like GPUL is POWER4-based, just not a repackaging of the exact same processor.
With a decent pair of headphones you can pretty much shut out the rest of your surroundings. I recommend a pair of Grado SR-60's.
Did altavista buy that crawler to get the around the prior art issue, or would this be another piece of prior art?
I need to see if I still have the files around, but I'm afriad they might be gone. :(
I have recently moved from Sweden to the US, and I had a 6150 in Sweden. I really liked it, the metal case made it very rugged, and the UI was excellent.
However, when I moved, I got stuck with an AT&T Nokia 61x0 (6190? Can't remember). Plastic case, no button on the side of the phone to adjust volume, and crappy UI. The phone beeps every now and then when you select options, etc etc. I know Sprint has a metal case Nokia, which looks alot better. I don't know how the UI differs though. I would expect that the Pac Bell and Omnipoint Nokias have the same UI as the Europena GSM models, since they should all have the same software.
I don't have much to compare to between Nokias and other mobiles here in the US, but from what I have seen I am in general not impressed.
Another thing: If you have coverage in your are, pick a GSM operator! (Arial, Omnipoint, Pac Bell, Voice Stream). The technology is superior, and the quality is better. I _never_ got a phonecall cut off using a GSM phone. With D-AMPS it happens every week. SMS is also a very nice feature with GSM.
However... This would mean that I would not receive the same product that I ordered, and that I never agreed upon these new terms and conditions upon ordering the product. Right?
I guess they might have wrapped the unit the same way lots of software is distrubuted -- by breaking the shipping package you agree upon the terms...
I went to my local Circuit City in San Mateo, and they checked all surrounding stores. Every single one of them was out of stock. As most of you probably already have noticed, so is www.circuitcity.com. Shipping for orders from www.netpliance.com is a whopping $39 dollars.
Oh well.
The fact that you have to send as many packets as the recipient of the DoS attack is true, but from how I interpret the announcement, no matter how small the UDP packet is a 1500 byte ICMP packet will always be returned.
This is a bit odd. Why 1500 bytes? It is the MTU for Ethernet, but I can't really see how that should affect the size of the ICMP error message. Maybe the fellows at Apple made an error in the internal coding of packet length, and the ICMP error-return code included the sent packet and then garbage up until the 1500 byte limit.
However, it can never be as destructive as a smurf attack (unless you have a whole subnet filled with Macs running OS9 _and_ they answer with this ICMP on broadcast packets to the specific port). Also, if it is only one specific UDP port, it is pretty easy to block in firewalls.