Yes, you can install gcc if you have the space. I think it takes about 20MB or so. Get a 64MB+ compactflash card and you're good to go. Get a wireless card, and you can host your dev environment off an NFS server at home:-)
The Zaurus rocks! (if ya like that kinda thing)
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I bought a 5500 the other day, and love it. I haven't picked up a wireless card for it yet (although I plan to ASAP), but have been using it via USB networking to my linux desktop. I've installed ssh on it, ssh in and then NFS mount some volumes from my other linux boxes, making it easy to download and screw with sw on it from my desktop. I've also got X installed, but you have to kill the QT desktop before you can launch X:-( You can also install xcopilot on it (Palm emulator) and run lots of Palm sw. I installed a gnuboy port on it and have tried out a couple of gameboy games. The ones I tried were too slow, I thought. Maybe xmess playing colecovision games will work out, or xmame/zmame with some older arcade units will perform better.
The fact that it runs linux makes it the ideal toy, as it's easy to modify and hack to do whatever you want...of course I'm not a typical user (as a unix admin, and security weenie).
I started using EvilWM lately as well, and quickly hacked the code so I can do ALT-M and have mozilla launch:-) If I had any free time that I didn't spend reading/., I'd hack the code to easily allow multiple configuration keybindings... anybody?
EvilWM is great on a lower powered laptop, and fast and easy to use. Makes great use of real estate, alhough I've upped the border width to 5 pixels:-)
Oh my God!! Install/remove sw to ALL machines world wide from just ONE computer! Just like I do with Linux and Solaris! Incredible! ...oh wait... not really..
It's VERY usefull for demos and presentations though. Everybody connects with -viewonly and you don't need NetMeeting and app sharing on all desktops. Hmnm.. could this be what MS really wants to stop?
>Every night, a 500,000+ line/etc/hosts file would be pushed out to a network of NIS servers.
...but the worst part was that (back when I worked there) they didn't use automounter!! One host went down and all hell broke loose!! I was at Skyline, Tower 1:-)
Do you really think that anybody with half a brain could not figure out MS Office if they were trained on StarOffice? The VAST majority of people use a small percentage of Office's features. These features work nearly identically to those in StarOffice.
..after the posting about the MOSIX fork last week, I got off my ass and set up a small cluster at home. I took my old dual PII400 and a IBM Thinkpad (PIII, 750Mhz). I actually put another thinkpad in the cluster as well, but since it was running on a wireless link (Aironet) it was more than useless:-)
Setting up mosix required little more than a kernel patch (a good time to upgrade my boxes to 2.4.17 anyway), apt-get install mosix mosixview, and a couple of small tweaks. I've got Mosixview running over SSH, and with no tweaking at all, I was able to shave a minute off a 2.4.17 kernel build, launched from the 2XPII400. I was just trying to pound the boxes, so I did builds with make -j 16 or so. I think I need to tweak it somewhat (I was messing with the box speeds throughout the session), as I expected more than just 1 minute off a 6 minute compile, and I could tell I wasn't using the laptop fully as it's CPU wasn't 100% all the time. I suspect this type of compile isn't the ideal test anyway, as it's alot of small files that are done quickly-- the time it takes to TX them over the ethernet would (IMHO) sometimes not be "worth" it given the size of the file. Since the ethernet wasn't maxed all the time either, I think I still have a way to go. I want my boxes to SWEAT when I tell them too!!
I'm the kind of guy who hates his CPU's to ever be less than 90% pegged each:-)
coyote# while [/bin/true ]
> do
> cat/dev/urandom >/dev/null &
> done
Just did this on my coyote box and it's still passing traffic and logging remotely. Here's an entry from my syslog server:
Feb 8 19:14:54 hades kernel: VM: killing process cat
Feb 8 19:15:47 hades kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 10.34.64.1:67 255.255.255.255:68 L=328 S=0x00 I=15781 F=0x0000 T=255 (#22)
One you hit your memory limit, you aren't launching anything else.
No it wasn't all done by Ben, a good portion was done by Damian as well. See the sourceforge page for further details.
We still use CEPS at Cisco-- it's ain't going anywhere as it just ROCKS! The ceps boxes do a bunch of smart things, including kickstarts over the net (handy so you can just have a field sales office pop in a floppy to install a new print server), as well as include a recovery partition.
A *very* well put together system, to say the least.
Run a Palm emulator under Linux on one of these boxes and get the best of both worlds! I would imagine that since it's ported to the IPAQ it shouldn't be that difficult to get on these damn non-X boxes..
Here's a link to an older one, hopefully there is something more recent available now.
http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-metzlema2/arm.html
I'm a sysadmin, and actually worked an entire day once dialed up from my cell phone with my Palm. I was using Mutt at the time, as well as another IMAP based Palm client (name escapes me). The IMAP was too slow at downloading the headers on my huge mailbox at 19.2, so I switched to mutt on the sun box via telnet. I was able to do everything I would normally do as a sysadmin (even using a VNC client to access X apps on my desktop linux box at work!), however it was all soooooo slow using only graffiti. Vi DOES suck with Graffiti, no doubt about it.
While a pen based system and cell phone is great to have when oncall and you're out and don't want to carry much, I won't buy another PDA until I get one with a keyboard (maybe the Sharp?). BTW, I looked at the Palm keyboards around that time, but they were basically useless to me as they used the serial port, so you couldn't be online and use thekeyboard at the same time.
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Wicos rule supreme! I've still got a couple, and these things are RELIABLE! Wico made arcade sticks as well, and the quality shows.
Somebody's gotta hack up some sw to do this-- don't make me go out and ACTUALLY BUY HARDWARE!
The horror!
Get to work! I'll be checking freshmeat tomorrow!
There IS a linux desktop available: qtopiadesktop.tgz
works fine, as far as I can tell.
Yeah, you've gotta download the terminal and install it :-( It seems the 5500 doesn't come with it by default.
Yes, you can install gcc if you have the space. I think it takes about 20MB or so. Get a 64MB+ compactflash card and you're good to go. Get a wireless card, and you can host your dev environment off an NFS server at home :-)
.. the cancel buttons works as ESC!
I bought a 5500 the other day, and love it. I haven't picked up a wireless card for it yet (although I plan to ASAP), but have been using it via USB networking to my linux desktop. I've installed ssh on it, ssh in and then NFS mount some volumes from my other linux boxes, making it easy to download and screw with sw on it from my desktop. :-(
..of course I'm not a typical user (as a unix admin, and security weenie).
I've also got X installed, but you have to kill the QT desktop before you can launch X
You can also install xcopilot on it (Palm emulator) and run lots of Palm sw. I installed a gnuboy port on it and have tried out a couple of gameboy games. The ones I tried were too slow, I thought. Maybe xmess playing colecovision games will work out, or xmame/zmame with some older arcade units will perform better.
The fact that it runs linux makes it the ideal toy, as it's easy to modify and hack to do whatever you want.
That's VNC. XXXX Frame Buffer..
I started using EvilWM lately as well, and quickly hacked the code so I can do ALT-M and have mozilla launch
EvilWM is great on a lower powered laptop, and fast and easy to use. Makes great use of real estate, alhough I've upped the border width to 5 pixels
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Oh my God!! Install/remove sw to ALL machines world wide from just ONE computer! Just like I do with Linux and Solaris! Incredible!
...oh wait... not really..
It's VERY usefull for demos and presentations though. Everybody connects with -viewonly and you don't need NetMeeting and app sharing on all desktops. Hmnm.. could this be what MS really wants to stop?
>Every night, a 500,000+ line /etc/hosts file would be pushed out to a network of NIS servers.
:-)
...but the worst part was that (back when I worked there) they didn't use automounter!! One host went down and all hell broke loose!! I was at Skyline, Tower 1
Do you really think that anybody with half a brain could not figure out MS Office if they were trained on StarOffice? The VAST majority of people use a small percentage of Office's features. These features work nearly identically to those in StarOffice.
..after the posting about the MOSIX fork last week, I got off my ass and set up a small cluster at home. I took my old dual PII400 and a IBM Thinkpad (PIII, 750Mhz). I actually put another thinkpad in the cluster as well, but since it was running on a wireless link (Aironet) it was more than useless :-)
:-)
Setting up mosix required little more than a kernel patch (a good time to upgrade my boxes to 2.4.17 anyway), apt-get install mosix mosixview, and a couple of small tweaks. I've got Mosixview running over SSH, and with no tweaking at all, I was able to shave a minute off a 2.4.17 kernel build, launched from the 2XPII400.
I was just trying to pound the boxes, so I did builds with make -j 16 or so. I think I need to tweak it somewhat (I was messing with the box speeds throughout the session), as I expected more than just 1 minute off a 6 minute compile, and I could tell I wasn't using the laptop fully as it's CPU wasn't 100% all the time. I suspect this type of compile isn't the ideal test anyway, as it's alot of small files that are done quickly-- the time it takes to TX them over the ethernet would (IMHO) sometimes not be "worth" it given the size of the file. Since the ethernet wasn't maxed all the time either, I think I still have a way to go. I want my boxes to SWEAT when I tell them too!!
I'm the kind of guy who hates his CPU's to ever be less than 90% pegged each
Can you say "fork bomb"? I can:
/bin/true ]
/dev/urandom > /dev/null &
coyote# while [
> do
> cat
> done
Just did this on my coyote box and it's still passing traffic and logging remotely. Here's an entry from my syslog server:
Feb 8 19:14:54 hades kernel: VM: killing process cat
Feb 8 19:15:47 hades kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 10.34.64.1:67 255.255.255.255:68 L=328 S=0x00 I=15781 F=0x0000 T=255 (#22)
One you hit your memory limit, you aren't launching anything else.
:-)
You're such a funny, racist man.
Grow up fuckwad, and come out of your cave.
different!=bad.
But can it play divx's as well? I thought not.
No it wasn't all done by Ben, a good portion was done by Damian as well. See the sourceforge page for further details.
We still use CEPS at Cisco-- it's ain't going anywhere as it just ROCKS! The ceps boxes do a bunch of smart things, including kickstarts over the net (handy so you can just have a field sales office pop in a floppy to install a new print server), as well as include a recovery partition.
A *very* well put together system, to say the least.
Who will create them? The standard will be Linux based, not Windows.
802.11b isn't fast enough for streaming half decent video around your network. 11a should be though.
Run a Palm emulator under Linux on one of these boxes and get the best of both worlds! I would imagine that since it's ported to the IPAQ it shouldn't be that difficult to get on these damn non-X boxes..
Here's a link to an older one, hopefully there is something more recent available now.
http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-metzlema2/arm.html
I'm a sysadmin, and actually worked an entire day once dialed up from my cell phone with my Palm. I was using Mutt at the time, as well as another IMAP based Palm client (name escapes me). The IMAP was too slow at downloading the headers on my huge mailbox at 19.2, so I switched to mutt on the sun box via telnet. I was able to do everything I would normally do as a sysadmin (even using a VNC client to access X apps on my desktop linux box at work!), however it was all soooooo slow using only graffiti. Vi DOES suck with Graffiti, no doubt about it.
While a pen based system and cell phone is great to have when oncall and you're out and don't want to carry much, I won't buy another PDA until I get one with a keyboard (maybe the Sharp?). BTW, I looked at the Palm keyboards around that time, but they were basically useless to me as they used the serial port, so you couldn't be online and use thekeyboard at the same time.
Oops scratch that, I don't think it's CF, just PCMCIA.
IBM makes a 1GB CF harddrive that many people add to their IPAQ's. 1GB on a PDA is ALOT of data! (not enough for me of course, but nothing ever is..)