When the first wave of ultra portables came out, we bought about 15 Toshiba Librettos for some of our sales staff.
About a year later, all of them had been thrown away in favour of laptops with a keyboard you actually can type on... These machines were also hampered by a LOT of technical issues, and I'd be a bit sceptical to a new wave of these things before they've proven to be reliable.
Basically, these things seemed like a good idea at the time, but technical - and useability issues made them more a novelty than anything you could use to get work done...
That being said, I salvaged a 110CT, installed Linux on it and I use it for running ethereal and other network troubleshooting stuff...:)
NDS was launched in '93 with Netware 4.0 NT3.51 was launched in '95.
Even though NDS was fairly unstable until 4.1x, they still were doing stuff with NDS that we had to wait until Win 2000 for Microsoft to do with AD.
I think Novell became a victim of its own success - they were used to admins queing up to get their CNA/CNEs and basically, they got lazy. Their marketing has always been... pretty bad.
As to other stuff Novell has made... Well, ZenWorks was pretty revolutionary when it came out. A lot of their other products are also pretty damn good, like iChain/BorderManager, iFolder, iPrint...
I've been thinking of using a DC-DC converter myself, but I'm a bit nervous as to what will happen when I turn the ignition on... The voltage drops dramatically, and you might get some serious trouble keeping the motherboard alive. Could try some large capacitors or sumpthin'.
I've found a compact keyboard just small enough to mount on the glove-compartment lid. Full 102-key thing...:)
I've been thinking of putting the kernel (and some basic utilities) in flash-memory, and using a cd-rom drive to store the MP3's on. To minimize the risk of drive-damage, you could copy the songs to a ramdisk before playing them.
Would've been nice with an IrDA link to connect to my in-house LAN...:)
As to the graphics; I thought it could be nice to be able to use the computer to do more than just play MP3's. I've been thinking of hooking up my GSM phone to it via the serial port (Nokia CDS). I even believe there is a linux-driver for it...!:) Could read my email in the car...:)
Just gotta fix some minor financial problems first....:)
I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while now. As far as I can tell, the largest problem is the PSU. I could make one myself, but, alas, I'm lazy.... And pretty incompetent when it comes to electronics. Anybody seen a schematic for a 12V PSU? Or, even better, knows of a place where I can buy one...?
I've been looking at an industrial pc-on-a-card from Inside Technology with built-in LCD driver, optional Flash-disk, VGA, serial, Adaptec SCSI, dual ethernet-controller, USB and a 233MMX CPU. Price: about $1000. Is this expensive....?
I've also got a 6.2" TFT LCD-display.... Hmm... If i rip out the ashtray, maybe it'll fit...?:)
Slashdot Mirror
...See through... ...Israeli... ...Walls...
Hmm.... Sounds like useful technology.
Hopefully UML can compete with GSX/ESX server from VMware - at least for linux-only hosting.
:) Could really cut down on hardware costs.
Would be interesting to see some comparative performance analysis.
We had some IBM people over, showing ESX server running on an xSeries 445. Seemed pretty sweet
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/instruments- cassini-iss.cfm
:)
:P
"Cassini's higher-resolution camera is able to see a penny, 1.5 cm (0.5 in) across, from a distance of nearly 4 km (2.5 mi)."
Sounds like the cameras has some potential, at least
Oh, and NASA, as always, rock at converting metric to imperial...
1.5 cm = 0.59 in
4 km = 2.48 miles
http://www.finnvik.com/irony.jpg
Oooh, the Total Perspective Vortex!
*waits for Gargravarr to make an appearance*
When the first wave of ultra portables came out, we bought about 15 Toshiba Librettos for some of our sales staff.
:)
About a year later, all of them had been thrown away in favour of laptops with a keyboard you actually can type on... These machines were also hampered by a LOT of technical issues, and I'd be a bit sceptical to a new wave of these things before they've proven to be reliable.
Basically, these things seemed like a good idea at the time, but technical - and useability issues made them more a novelty than anything you could use to get work done...
That being said, I salvaged a 110CT, installed Linux on it and I use it for running ethereal and other network troubleshooting stuff...
NDS was launched in '93 with Netware 4.0
NT3.51 was launched in '95.
Even though NDS was fairly unstable until 4.1x, they still were doing stuff with NDS that we had to wait until Win 2000 for Microsoft to do with AD.
I think Novell became a victim of its own success - they were used to admins queing up to get their CNA/CNEs and basically, they got lazy. Their marketing has always been... pretty bad.
As to other stuff Novell has made... Well, ZenWorks was pretty revolutionary when it came out. A lot of their other products are also pretty damn good, like iChain/BorderManager, iFolder, iPrint...
I've been thinking of using a DC-DC converter myself, but I'm a bit nervous as to what will happen when I turn the ignition on... The voltage drops dramatically, and you might get some serious trouble keeping the motherboard alive. Could try some large capacitors or sumpthin'.
I've found a compact keyboard just small enough to mount on the glove-compartment lid. Full 102-key thing...:)
I've been thinking of putting the kernel (and some basic utilities) in flash-memory, and using a cd-rom drive to store the MP3's on. To minimize the risk of drive-damage, you could copy the songs to a ramdisk before playing them.
Would've been nice with an IrDA link to connect to my in-house LAN...:)
As to the graphics; I thought it could be nice to be able to use the computer to do more than just play MP3's. I've been thinking of hooking up my GSM phone to it via the serial port (Nokia CDS). I even believe there is a linux-driver for it...!:) Could read my email in the car...:)
Just gotta fix some minor financial problems first....:)
I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while now. As far as I can tell, the largest problem is the PSU. I could make one myself, but, alas, I'm lazy.... And pretty incompetent when it comes to electronics. Anybody seen a schematic for a 12V PSU? Or, even better, knows of a place where I can buy one...?
I've been looking at an industrial pc-on-a-card from Inside Technology with built-in LCD driver, optional Flash-disk, VGA, serial, Adaptec SCSI, dual ethernet-controller, USB and a 233MMX CPU. Price: about $1000. Is this expensive....?
I've also got a 6.2" TFT LCD-display.... Hmm... If i rip out the ashtray, maybe it'll fit...?:)
This could be the ultimate geek-mobile....:)