Are you sure? Generally, for 'blogs especially, it's automatic. For my site, my software updates the RDF every time an article is added, removed or modified.
The only time you'd see a not up to date backend would be if they're managing their site by HAND -- just modifying an HTML page. I don't think many sites do that. At least, I HOPE not.
As a Dot.Com'er, I find your trust in Web Sites amusing.
Interestingly enough, I had the exact same thing happen, except with the 'wish list' thing -- and, in this case, I was trying to catch them in the act.
I made a 12-character random username on *my* mail server (the one I run for me and me alone). Obviously, this address was never published as I made the account just for this purpose). I then sent my wish list to that address and waited.
And about 36 hours later, I think you can guess what happened! Spam, Spam! Glorious Spam! They say they'll only give the addresses away to "trusted thrid parties" -- I guess they consider a Mortgage refinance corporation to be "trusted".
Anyway, now that the 275-kilo (roughly) gorilla has stepped in, it looks like, there is no hope for him unless he/she/them/they get creative.
If "Playstation2" is registered as a trademark in Norway, then the "playstation2.no" domain is a given -- Sony will get it and there is no recourse. However, for the "ps2.no" domain, there might be some hope; I somehow doubt that PS2 is a registered trademark as IBM was marketing a PC called the "PS/2" long ago. I realise that is is a lame argument, but you take what you can get.
Wouldn't you know it, the moment I pressed 'sumbit', I managed to dig up an email that one o' the guys sent me; Here it is a snippet of it:
Cybiko is already completing "Wireless Internet Gates" that hook to your PCB
via USB and allow any unit within range to use this "mini-base station".
Strategic agreements are also being negotiated to help place these CyWIGs at
many local areas for free internet access for anyone with Cybiko or Cybiko
enabled devices.
For easy information, if you have a Cybiko, download our CyberLoad software.
Choose Start>>Programs>>Cybiko>>CyWIG and presto you have a wireless
internet gate!! (We already provide the application for you and we are
improving it!!)
As everyone else here as said, they're more around the 99 dollar mark (USD of course). I've had a dialogue with of of the VPs of the Company about it and he let slip (?) that they also plan to offer an RF PC Linkage, so it can communicate wirelessly with a PC, 'surf the web', etc. And another guy at the Company hinted at a colour Cybiko using the same screen (or same type) as the GameBoy Colour -- if the units popularity warrants it.
I was also have an interesting discussion with some friends about making a relay protocol for the Cybikos, similar to Gnutella. If the unit you wanted to contact wasn't in you driect range, it would use shared routing tables to ping-pong the message through several Cybikos and relay it until it got to the one it was looking for.
I think it's an idea whose time as come.. especially for those of us who live in places where the cost of 'juice' is rising.
I've lately become a big fan of flywheels; use solar power to 'charge them up' in the day, and they can deliver power at night. Yahoo! has a big section on them, and there are other resources, though I can't think of any right now.
Kernel Install help for Newbies
on
2.2 vs 2.4
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· Score: 3
If you're an idiot like me and know your way around Linux, but still can't get the hang of that 'new fangeld' kernel recompile thing, Linux Newbie is running a wonderful little Newbiezed Help File on How to install the 2.4.0 kernel under Rad Hat 7. Great for people who aren't yet up to the skill of 'kernel hacker'.
Money, probably. If you read the article you realise that the Sandia National Laboratorie are a subset of the DOE -- and if you read/. like I think you do, you'll realise that SNL is home to one of the fastest computers in the world.
Also, plagerising directly "...while simultaneously spelling out design requirements for an extremely fast new computer that would be useful both in biology and in national security work".
I feel it's about time I put my feelings into this. I'm entitled, no?
I count myself partially lucky to have been out of school when the fateful shootings happened. At the time, I was busy using the skills that my high-school tried to crush to make a life for myself. I was waiting for a machine to reboot when I read the first news report of it on my pager. I didn't think anything of it until someone in the department shouted at me to come into the conference room and take a look at the live coverage on the TV there. We watched that news converge for at least two hours, while the news agencies did their best to tell this issues in the pop-culture way they're so fond of. When it was finally realized that the two antagonists involved were "goth outcasts" (that's the very term the news reader used), I heard someone behind me say "it figures it'd be one of those freaks".
I barely resisted the urge to break his nose.
I find is almost amusing that, if someone 'normal' does something atrocious, they did it because of a broken home or a chemical imbalance or peer pressure, and yet if a 'freak' does it they did it 'just because they are a freak'. The mainstream has a fear that they refuse to express. The fear that these 'goths' or 'geeks' are more alike them then they would care to admit.
And that's when they start laying blame. Music was the culprit here. Obviously. That evil Marilyn Manson or KMFDM are to blame. Sure, I'm as anti-Manson as anyone else, but I think that not even HE deserves that kind of blame. Lest we forget that, in another high profile school shooting, the shooter listened to opera music constantly. And you'll notice that not once was the phrase "'The Marriage of Figaro' was to blame" was ever used.
Do I think what Dylan and Eric did was right? Hell no. They were murderers, plain and simple. But I have a hard time convincing myself that at least *some* of the people there that day didn't deserve it.
And there will be people who say that if you choose to act different, you should expect to be treated badly. Or that you should "Just grin and bear it". That's what a lot of adults will say; "Just ignore it an it will go away." Well, guess what? It's not the same now-a-days as it was when all those psychologists and talk-show hosts were growing up. Back then it was being tripped in the hall and getting stuffed into lockers. Well, today, if you're different, your car gets vandalized and you get a gun put to your head by the same people that the mainstream media sees as 'normal'.
Schools like to think they encourage individuality. Well, of course they do, up to a point. It's when you become *too* individual that they stop being so friendly. They encourage you to learn and use your talents, and yet when you do, they suspend you for being a 'disruption'. There 4 teachers during my 12 years in public schooling that actually took the time to understand me. Four out of what was probably 100 total. In fact, it was probably those previous 4 that kept me from doing the same thing the 'two freaks in Colorado' did.
And here we are, over a year later. What has changed? A lot. We have 'geek profiling'. It's easier then it's ever been for the administration to expel a student. Three of my friends who were still in high school during this were suspended for not showing the hate and contempt toward the Littleton shooters that the administration thought they should. Individuality, indeed. We need to stop trying to 'fix' people and start trying to understand them.
I think best way to close this is to quote a lyric from KMFDM, titled "The Problem":
"He is... he represents.. he embodies the problem.
...if he is expelled, The Problem will go away."
P.S. If his hirsuteness wants to use this comment in a book or whatever, he can.
Well, the sysem I have (Which is a Flytech BookPC with an AMD 5x96/133 with specs that are remarkably similar with the NT-150) also plays my MP3's just swimingly when OC'd to 160mhz.
The DMA Issue I was meaning was not speed during operation, perse', but speed during times a high disk access, like Boot up or Scandisk/FSCK. Thats when the bottleneck becomes apperent.
Speaking of which, any ideas if the Acer can me OC'ed? The AMD 5x86 are really great for overclocking provided you have a good cooler.
I have an SBC using the same IDE chipset and it's worth nothing that the IDE Chipset they use in this Acer Set-top box (the ALi M1487/M1489) DOES NOT, in fact, support DMA (or at least it doesn't support it correctly). This will cause a huge hit in system performance, especially under Win9x.
For those of you who don't know that the absence of DMA capabilities means, it means that the CPU has to do a lot of the work to access the IDE drives so while the Drives are being accessed the system is essentially halted for that timeslice. I think the newer Linux Kernels have some kind of workaround for it, but I'm not sure.
The only problem is (correct me if I'm wrong (and I usually am)) that Mir is not it a stable orbit. It is slowly spirailing into the earth.
Now, if we could get it into a geophraphically stable orbit, you're got something. Completely depressurize it so you don't have to worry about explotion or fungus and let it drift until we can either use it or bring it back down to earth -- I'm talking in 80-100 years time. Like when seafarers would purposly sink old boats in shallow bays.. you never know.
I don't know where I heard it from (maybe here?) but a while back there was some talk about integrating Mir with Space Station Alpha (formerly the International Space Station). This seemed to me like a Good Idea(tm) -- Mir is fully functional if decaying. If they conjoined the two they could eliminate a lot of Mir's weak points (poor computer system, terrible propultion) and it would help the SSA. It could provide suplimentary power, communications, storage and serve as an emergency escape vehicle should something happen to the SSA.
It's old, but valuable. YWe've got to remember that the Mir is one of only two working space stations currently in orbit, and the Mir has proved itself time and again.
The Linux MIPS howto says that the Cobalt Raq and Qude are based on the IDT R5230. I don't know much about the innards of the WebTV Plus, but it you could hack together some kind of alternate boot device (or just replace the ROMS), you could presumably put Linux on it -- but there is no Ether, so it's actual usefulness is questionable.
>I don't understand why you put the "unless it's a Powerbook" comment on only one of your criteria!
((In the voice of 'herbert' from 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'))
"Well, I'll tell you."
I said "Unless it's a powerbook" only for one an important reason you overlooked:
Powerbooks are (typically) THE MOST upgradable laptops in existance. Take ly 1400cs -- it was born with a 117mhz 603e. Right now, I could go buy a 333mhz G3 for it, and Sonnet is working on a 433mhz G4 upgrade for it. And take a Wallstreet or newer model -- it takes some work, but if history is any experience, we should be able to upgrade a stock 66mhz bus Wallstreet 233 to well over 600mhz with a simple card swap. Try that with most intel laptops.
But anyway, on with some your points:
* CPUs are as you said:)
> * Powerbooks are not slower except for possibly the PCI bus speed (I'm not sure); Apple uses virtually the same motherboard on all models, using their UMA (unified motherboard architecture).
This is true, except that there are power saving measures that are built into the system (Like CPU cycling, etc) and the fact that all parts in a laptop are designed for low power, not speed. It doesn't make them a whole bunch slower, but like 5-10% maybe. Using UMA board means their just fully compatible with each other, not the same.
> * Powerbooks have the same CPU's as desktops. I heard that the G3 cpu is the size of a person's thumbnail.
In some cases. I'm not sure how it is for the new Broze G3's, but on my old 1400cs/117, it *does* uses a special mobile 603e. Size has nothing to do with it, it's voltage and power usage.
What I was saying was not for some kind of high-power server farm, but a medium load system. It you actually *need* a multi-firewire drive setup and 500mhz plus for a web site, just go buy a cube or a black&white G4.
Regarding servers: I was thinking myself this question a while ago, myself - the most logical choice being a laptop as the server.
Benefits:
Low Power
Very Low heat (little or no active cooling required)
variable power savng states (the machine can throttle it's processor usage dependent on how much it is being used).
Small (can fit in a closet)
Built-in battery backup
Can be found cheap, if you buy one with a broken screen. (just plug in an external monitor, and only turn it on when you need it)
Drawbacks
Sometimes are Proprietary (i.e. memory)
CPUs are Seldom upgradable (unless it's a Powerbook:) )
Mobile CPUs are usually slightly slower than desktop CPUs or the same MHZ
Mobile technology is usually 1-2 generations behind desktop machines (we have 1.2ghz processors on the desktop and 700mhz mobile CPUs have only recently appeared)
Software support may be lacking for some models (Especially Linux, BSD or NT4)
Expandability can be low - they don't make PCMCIA RAID controllers.
In my case, I could probaly pick up a used p233 laptop with a busted screen for only a few hundred, buy two PCMCIA ethernet cards, drop Linux, *bsd (or even NT4 or Win2k) on it and it could do all my web serving and firewalling/NATing.
...and you have USB and an Airport slot as well. But the iBook has a lot more bulk than most people want -- lots and lots of wasted plastic on it's chassis. But they are cheap(ish), and they have a 6 hour battery life, can run Linux/BSD, etc.
Or you could pay a pittance and get a second (or even first) had K6-2+ based note, but you'll loose battery life.
I have several Anime titles that have scenes in the that are just gorgeous and It would be nice if I could get a frame to use as wallpaper or kill a tree and make a wall poster -- but oh no, I can't-- and I can't just do ALT+PrtScn (under w9x) to do a screen cap because most DVD playing software and hardware uses video overlay mode.
My DVD Player (SigmaDesign Hollywood+) even offers a screenshot button, to boot, but I can never use it becuase "This DVD is copyrighted".
It should be know that the Fiva has been around for a while now, though only available in Europe and Japan -- Version previous to this one used the Cyrix MediaGX/NS Geode -- therefor it's battery life won't increase much becuase the Geode used before is low power -- though performance should get a big jump.
It doesn't seem to ve mentioned anywhere, but when I saw this Gizmo at Comdex, they was silkscreened with the name 'CyGate' on it, to go with the HMD that is called the 'CyVisor'. Talking with one of the enginers, I was led to believe that it was technically identical to the Yopy exceptiong no LCD display and it had built in circuitry to drive the head mounted display, with normally requires a converter box.
And among this parade of names is another company, Daeyang E&C, who appears to be a distributor or marking arm of GMate. And for those of you who care, the HMD LCDs are made by a US company by the name of MicroDisplay Technology. the HMD web site is at www.personaldisplay.com
I'm glad the US has finally at least *tried* it. will it make money, though? I'm not sure. The problem is that in the US there is no real rail system as it exists in Europe or Canada. Especially in Eurpoe, where rail, busses and subways are integrated in an (dare I sound like a marketoid) "end-to-end solution". I would have really liked 'railing' it when I went to Comdex last week verses being cramed in a car for 7 hours each way or paying a 200 plane fare (assuming I could get the ticket for 'normal' rail prices of 100 dollars, round trip).
If this were europe.. and if wishes were ponies...
Well that's a great idea for a single user, but not what he's trying to do. My old K6-400 could just barely decode DVD video (with motion compensation from my Rage128).. and he wants to be able to serve multiple streams, it seems (a lofty goal) as well.
A high-end DVD decoder card like a Sigma Designs Hollywood+ will run you 30-50 dollars on ebay, and can decode video with a minimum of CPU usage. Wheather or not these a) can run under linux, b) have an available API or c) can have multiple cards in the same box remains to be seen, however.
Well, I don't know much of the particulars, but if it's modem is just a standard modem, then It's probably connected serial somehow to the rest of the electronics. Perhaps you could intercept the signals (hand with a soldering iron, are ya?) and route them to the serial port on another box running some kind of bridging software. Maybe a UART replacement?
This might not work, though, since it stands to reason that this guy was never made with megabit speeds in mind so it's serial port could probably only send the data at the regualr 1152k (about 10 kbps) serial rate. Plus there is the the high likley hood that it is optimized for a 33.6 connection, so even if you could wire it to a fater line, it might not even use the extra headroom.
Best of luck to you though -- if it works. be sure wit write up a HOWTO:)
Slashdot Mirror
Are you sure? Generally, for 'blogs especially, it's automatic. For my site, my software updates the RDF every time an article is added, removed or modified.
The only time you'd see a not up to date backend would be if they're managing their site by HAND -- just modifying an HTML page. I don't think many sites do that. At least, I HOPE not.
Sad to say, but the existence of Lake Vostok has been known for at least 18 months, and has been assumed to exist for much longer.
Though I have to admit the prospect of a virgin body of untouched water the size of Ontario is a very cool thing to contemplate.
American Scientist noted the lake in 1999, as did SCAR and Earth Sciences News -- ESN also talks about some 'microbes' found near/in it, and they have a telling graphic of the lakes' actual size. Cool stuff.
As a Dot.Com'er, I find your trust in Web Sites amusing.
Interestingly enough, I had the exact same thing happen, except with the 'wish list' thing -- and, in this case, I was trying to catch them in the act.
I made a 12-character random username on *my* mail server (the one I run for me and me alone). Obviously, this address was never published as I made the account just for this purpose). I then sent my wish list to that address and waited.
And about 36 hours later, I think you can guess what happened! Spam, Spam! Glorious Spam! They say they'll only give the addresses away to "trusted thrid parties" -- I guess they consider a Mortgage refinance corporation to be "trusted".
Arg. I hate this.
Anyway, now that the 275-kilo (roughly) gorilla has stepped in, it looks like, there is no hope for him unless he/she/them/they get creative.
If "Playstation2" is registered as a trademark in Norway, then the "playstation2.no" domain is a given -- Sony will get it and there is no recourse. However, for the "ps2.no" domain, there might be some hope; I somehow doubt that PS2 is a registered trademark as IBM was marketing a PC called the "PS/2" long ago. I realise that is is a lame argument, but you take what you can get.
As everyone else here as said, they're more around the 99 dollar mark (USD of course). I've had a dialogue with of of the VPs of the Company about it and he let slip (?) that they also plan to offer an RF PC Linkage, so it can communicate wirelessly with a PC, 'surf the web', etc. And another guy at the Company hinted at a colour Cybiko using the same screen (or same type) as the GameBoy Colour -- if the units popularity warrants it.
I was also have an interesting discussion with some friends about making a relay protocol for the Cybikos, similar to Gnutella. If the unit you wanted to contact wasn't in you driect range, it would use shared routing tables to ping-pong the message through several Cybikos and relay it until it got to the one it was looking for.
I think it's an idea whose time as come.. especially for those of us who live in places where the cost of 'juice' is rising.
I've lately become a big fan of flywheels; use solar power to 'charge them up' in the day, and they can deliver power at night. Yahoo! has a big section on them, and there are other resources, though I can't think of any right now.
If you're an idiot like me and know your way around Linux, but still can't get the hang of that 'new fangeld' kernel recompile thing, Linux Newbie is running a wonderful little Newbiezed Help File on How to install the 2.4.0 kernel under Rad Hat 7. Great for people who aren't yet up to the skill of 'kernel hacker'.
Money, probably. If you read the article you realise that the Sandia National Laboratorie are a subset of the DOE -- and if you read /. like I think you do, you'll realise that SNL is home to one of the fastest computers in the world.
Also, plagerising directly "...while simultaneously spelling out design requirements for an extremely fast new computer that would be useful both in biology and in national security work".
I feel it's about time I put my feelings into this. I'm entitled, no?
...if he is expelled, The Problem will go away."
I count myself partially lucky to have been out of school when the fateful shootings happened. At the time, I was busy using the skills that my high-school tried to crush to make a life for myself. I was waiting for a machine to reboot when I read the first news report of it on my pager. I didn't think anything of it until someone in the department shouted at me to come into the conference room and take a look at the live coverage on the TV there. We watched that news converge for at least two hours, while the news agencies did their best to tell this issues in the pop-culture way they're so fond of. When it was finally realized that the two antagonists involved were "goth outcasts" (that's the very term the news reader used), I heard someone behind me say "it figures it'd be one of those freaks".
I barely resisted the urge to break his nose.
I find is almost amusing that, if someone 'normal' does something atrocious, they did it because of a broken home or a chemical imbalance or peer pressure, and yet if a 'freak' does it they did it 'just because they are a freak'. The mainstream has a fear that they refuse to express. The fear that these 'goths' or 'geeks' are more alike them then they would care to admit.
And that's when they start laying blame. Music was the culprit here. Obviously. That evil Marilyn Manson or KMFDM are to blame. Sure, I'm as anti-Manson as anyone else, but I think that not even HE deserves that kind of blame. Lest we forget that, in another high profile school shooting, the shooter listened to opera music constantly. And you'll notice that not once was the phrase "'The Marriage of Figaro' was to blame" was ever used.
Do I think what Dylan and Eric did was right? Hell no. They were murderers, plain and simple. But I have a hard time convincing myself that at least *some* of the people there that day didn't deserve it.
And there will be people who say that if you choose to act different, you should expect to be treated badly. Or that you should "Just grin and bear it". That's what a lot of adults will say; "Just ignore it an it will go away." Well, guess what? It's not the same now-a-days as it was when all those psychologists and talk-show hosts were growing up. Back then it was being tripped in the hall and getting stuffed into lockers. Well, today, if you're different, your car gets vandalized and you get a gun put to your head by the same people that the mainstream media sees as 'normal'.
Schools like to think they encourage individuality. Well, of course they do, up to a point. It's when you become *too* individual that they stop being so friendly. They encourage you to learn and use your talents, and yet when you do, they suspend you for being a 'disruption'. There 4 teachers during my 12 years in public schooling that actually took the time to understand me. Four out of what was probably 100 total. In fact, it was probably those previous 4 that kept me from doing the same thing the 'two freaks in Colorado' did.
And here we are, over a year later. What has changed? A lot. We have 'geek profiling'. It's easier then it's ever been for the administration to expel a student. Three of my friends who were still in high school during this were suspended for not showing the hate and contempt toward the Littleton shooters that the administration thought they should. Individuality, indeed. We need to stop trying to 'fix' people and start trying to understand them.
I think best way to close this is to quote a lyric from KMFDM, titled "The Problem":
"He is... he represents.. he embodies the problem.
P.S. If his hirsuteness wants to use this comment in a book or whatever, he can.
Well, the sysem I have (Which is a Flytech BookPC with an AMD 5x96/133 with specs that are remarkably similar with the NT-150) also plays my MP3's just swimingly when OC'd to 160mhz.
The DMA Issue I was meaning was not speed during operation, perse', but speed during times a high disk access, like Boot up or Scandisk/FSCK. Thats when the bottleneck becomes apperent.
Speaking of which, any ideas if the Acer can me OC'ed? The AMD 5x86 are really great for overclocking provided you have a good cooler.
I have an SBC using the same IDE chipset and it's worth nothing that the IDE Chipset they use in this Acer Set-top box (the ALi M1487/M1489) DOES NOT, in fact, support DMA (or at least it doesn't support it correctly). This will cause a huge hit in system performance, especially under Win9x.
For those of you who don't know that the absence of DMA capabilities means, it means that the CPU has to do a lot of the work to access the IDE drives so while the Drives are being accessed the system is essentially halted for that timeslice. I think the newer Linux Kernels have some kind of workaround for it, but I'm not sure.
The only problem is (correct me if I'm wrong (and I usually am)) that Mir is not it a stable orbit. It is slowly spirailing into the earth.
Now, if we could get it into a geophraphically stable orbit, you're got something. Completely depressurize it so you don't have to worry about explotion or fungus and let it drift until we can either use it or bring it back down to earth -- I'm talking in 80-100 years time. Like when seafarers would purposly sink old boats in shallow bays.. you never know.
I don't know where I heard it from (maybe here?) but a while back there was some talk about integrating Mir with Space Station Alpha (formerly the International Space Station). This seemed to me like a Good Idea(tm) -- Mir is fully functional if decaying. If they conjoined the two they could eliminate a lot of Mir's weak points (poor computer system, terrible propultion) and it would help the SSA. It could provide suplimentary power, communications, storage and serve as an emergency escape vehicle should something happen to the SSA.
It's old, but valuable. YWe've got to remember that the Mir is one of only two working space stations currently in orbit, and the Mir has proved itself time and again.
The Linux MIPS howto says that the Cobalt Raq and Qude are based on the IDT R5230. I don't know much about the innards of the WebTV Plus, but it you could hack together some kind of alternate boot device (or just replace the ROMS), you could presumably put Linux on it -- but there is no Ether, so it's actual usefulness is questionable.
>I don't understand why you put the "unless it's a Powerbook" comment on only one of your criteria!
:)
((In the voice of 'herbert' from 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'))
"Well, I'll tell you."
I said "Unless it's a powerbook" only for one an important reason you overlooked:
Powerbooks are (typically) THE MOST upgradable laptops in existance. Take ly 1400cs -- it was born with a 117mhz 603e. Right now, I could go buy a 333mhz G3 for it, and Sonnet is working on a 433mhz G4 upgrade for it. And take a Wallstreet or newer model -- it takes some work, but if history is any experience, we should be able to upgrade a stock 66mhz bus Wallstreet 233 to well over 600mhz with a simple card swap. Try that with most intel laptops.
But anyway, on with some your points:
* CPUs are as you said
> * Powerbooks are not slower except for possibly the PCI bus speed (I'm not sure); Apple uses virtually the same motherboard on all models, using their UMA (unified motherboard architecture).
This is true, except that there are power saving measures that are built into the system (Like CPU cycling, etc) and the fact that all parts in a laptop are designed for low power, not speed. It doesn't make them a whole bunch slower, but like 5-10% maybe. Using UMA board means their just fully compatible with each other, not the same.
> * Powerbooks have the same CPU's as desktops. I heard that the G3 cpu is the size of a person's thumbnail.
In some cases. I'm not sure how it is for the new Broze G3's, but on my old 1400cs/117, it *does* uses a special mobile 603e. Size has nothing to do with it, it's voltage and power usage.
What I was saying was not for some kind of high-power server farm, but a medium load system. It you actually *need* a multi-firewire drive setup and 500mhz plus for a web site, just go buy a cube or a black&white G4.
Regarding servers: I was thinking myself this question a while ago, myself - the most logical choice being a laptop as the server.
In my case, I could probaly pick up a used p233 laptop with a busted screen for only a few hundred, buy two PCMCIA ethernet cards, drop Linux, *bsd (or even NT4 or Win2k) on it and it could do all my web serving and firewalling/NATing.
...and you have USB and an Airport slot as well. But the iBook has a lot more bulk than most people want -- lots and lots of wasted plastic on it's chassis. But they are cheap(ish), and they have a 6 hour battery life, can run Linux/BSD, etc.
Or you could pay a pittance and get a second (or even first) had K6-2+ based note, but you'll loose battery life.
I have several Anime titles that have scenes in the that are just gorgeous and It would be nice if I could get a frame to use as wallpaper or kill a tree and make a wall poster -- but oh no, I can't-- and I can't just do ALT+PrtScn (under w9x) to do a screen cap because most DVD playing software and hardware uses video overlay mode.
My DVD Player (SigmaDesign Hollywood+) even offers a screenshot button, to boot, but I can never use it becuase "This DVD is copyrighted".
It should be know that the Fiva has been around for a while now, though only available in Europe and Japan -- Version previous to this one used the Cyrix MediaGX/NS Geode -- therefor it's battery life won't increase much becuase the Geode used before is low power -- though performance should get a big jump.
It doesn't seem to ve mentioned anywhere, but when I saw this Gizmo at Comdex, they was silkscreened with the name 'CyGate' on it, to go with the HMD that is called the 'CyVisor'. Talking with one of the enginers, I was led to believe that it was technically identical to the Yopy exceptiong no LCD display and it had built in circuitry to drive the head mounted display, with normally requires a converter box.
And among this parade of names is another company, Daeyang E&C, who appears to be a distributor or marking arm of GMate. And for those of you who care, the HMD LCDs are made by a US company by the name of MicroDisplay Technology. the HMD web site is at www.personaldisplay.com
I'm glad the US has finally at least *tried* it. will it make money, though? I'm not sure. The problem is that in the US there is no real rail system as it exists in Europe or Canada. Especially in Eurpoe, where rail, busses and subways are integrated in an (dare I sound like a marketoid) "end-to-end solution". I would have really liked 'railing' it when I went to Comdex last week verses being cramed in a car for 7 hours each way or paying a 200 plane fare (assuming I could get the ticket for 'normal' rail prices of 100 dollars, round trip).
If this were europe.. and if wishes were ponies...
Well that's a great idea for a single user, but not what he's trying to do. My old K6-400 could just barely decode DVD video (with motion compensation from my Rage128).. and he wants to be able to serve multiple streams, it seems (a lofty goal) as well.
A high-end DVD decoder card like a Sigma Designs Hollywood+ will run you 30-50 dollars on ebay, and can decode video with a minimum of CPU usage. Wheather or not these a) can run under linux, b) have an available API or c) can have multiple cards in the same box remains to be seen, however.
SLC here, as well. Well, Farmington -- Close enough, eh?
Well, I don't know much of the particulars, but if it's modem is just a standard modem, then It's probably connected serial somehow to the rest of the electronics. Perhaps you could intercept the signals (hand with a soldering iron, are ya?) and route them to the serial port on another box running some kind of bridging software. Maybe a UART replacement?
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This might not work, though, since it stands to reason that this guy was never made with megabit speeds in mind so it's serial port could probably only send the data at the regualr 1152k (about 10 kbps) serial rate. Plus there is the the high likley hood that it is optimized for a 33.6 connection, so even if you could wire it to a fater line, it might not even use the extra headroom.
Best of luck to you though -- if it works. be sure wit write up a HOWTO