$300? I thought the things were designed to be cheap!
Routers that run full Linux can be had for about $50 (retail, US prices). Most home ADSL/cablemodem/routers seem to be based on ARM7 chips, regardless of brand, and can be made to run uClinux. They can be had for $30 (again retail US prices). I don't know wholesale prices but I'm sure Linksys will give you a quote if you're serious about buying a few thousand. I do think you're overly optimistic about the availability of Gamecubes. Many years ago I was helping out with a development project to send solar cookers to places like rural Namibia. I'm quite certain that the recipients of said cookers still do not have access to videogame consoles.
As for your travel history, filling four passports travelling to Thailand to visit ladyboys is not something most people would brag about.
Want to go cheap? Buy one of the many routers running or capable of running Linux. Excellent availability, no moving parts and no need to buy anything extra (LAN adapters/boot-PCs/mods). PDAs are another obvious choice (how much do the Simputers go for?) and are available now, instead of having to wait for a mod that may or may not appear. And if one does appear, chances are it won't be free.
I could also add that in many of the places that could use this sort of help, even $30 is way too much money, especially if you're supposed to pay it again and again just because "it broke". Something like a microcontroller with some flash would be closer to the desired price range.
Gee, more namecalling. Maybe it's not my life that lacks inspiration. You probably sit in front of the computer way too much, you have no idea how big and wonderful the world is... my advice to you: Kill yourself.
You really know fuck all about me, stop thinking you do.
The Gamecube is hardly suitable for the use you have in mind - the hassle of booting the system should be enough of an indicator (you have tried it, haven't you?) How does your solution compare to a cheap computer collecting data from remote sensors, keeping in mind that the Cube is designed for living-room use only? Leave it out in the sun and it'll overheat. Leave it out in the dirt and the fan breaks down. Leave it out in the rain and it'll fry. Maybe you're counting on the machines being so cheap that your third-world farmer can buy a new one every time that happens? Assuming, of course, there's a Nintendo retailer around the corner, which there usually isn't. And there's no computer stores or electronics stores either, which is the usual problem the "let's make high-tech available for everyone"-people forget about.
You might want to go back and read your reply to my first post in this thread. Also, didn't anyone ever teach you about making assumptions about people? As I already said, I hack on console hardware. I do it because I enjoy it, and I understand the motivation behind the port very well. But you won't convince me that a Gamecube would make a useful database server, especially with ad hominem attacks.
Check your facts before you start calling people names.
Gamecube - $100 Broadband adapter - $40 Phantasy Star Online Ep. I&II - $30-40 Computer needed to bootstrap the whole shebang - $100
Add a bit more for assorted network gear and memory cards and you're up to about $300. Why not take that money and get yourself a slightly better computer straight away? Just face it, this is even more of a toy than Dreamcast Linux, which at least had the advantage of being able to boot directly from a CD.
If you read the announcement you probably noticed that even the people who did the port aren't too serious about it, because it's just too damn slow. Right tools for the right job etc.
The big steps forward have been the exploitation of the PSO update mechanism to boot selfmade code and the reverse-engineering of the hardware that made the Linux port possible. Compiling a software package after that is mostly an excercise in masochism but nothing insanelygreat.
So yeah, I stand by my statement that trying to use a Gamecube as a database server is pointless especially if it must be backed by a storage server, eliminating the cost argument. I've been hacking on console hardware for about five years now, and while it's fun for the most part it is totally pointless and without purpose. So you know, fuck yourself, asshole.
Dude, unless you plan on storing your whole database in RAM or on a memory card there's very little point in using the Cube as a database server. The machine's network connection is also limited (by the bus the NIC is connected to) so its use even as a frontend is questionable. Hack value, but not any practical value.
In some article/interview with Valve they disclosed that according to their statistics a significant amount of people played Half-Life using software rendering. I suppose the figure includes both people with old hardware and laptops with sucky graphics hardware. (UT2004 includes a software renderer, specifically to cater for otherwise powerful laptops with sucky graphics hardware.)
Manhunt is just really disgusting (...) the violence here is disturbing...everybody I know who played it felt dirty, like they were some serial killer or something. It's really an uncomfortable game for most people I know.
You know, maybe, just maybe that's one of the points of the whole game. People are always complaining games are seen as being only "for kids", but when someone tries something a bit more ambitious people start complaining about it.
Another similar thing occurred when the new DMCA exemptions were granted last year, allowing the cracking of software on obsolete mediums ("circumvention of access control" or something similar). However, some bright sparks started posting around on the net that old games are no longer protected by copyright and paper game magazines printed that verbatim without ever even bothering to check the facts. Really pathetic, and shows just how pitiful the state of videogame journalism is.
Try finding the "Swordplay" videos of Radiant Silvergun completed using only the sword weapon. There are also videos of the game being completed without using weapons at all! (Like in Ikaruga the level bosses all have time limits, so it is possible.)
Similar videos exist for most shooters, I've seen some incredible ones of Gigawing and some of the Strikers 1945 games.
More recent research indicates that they're not related. And even if they were, there's no shared words (beyond coincidences, but those exist in all languages). A Finn will not understand Hungarian, nor will a Hungarian understand Finnish.
I used a C64 daily from 1984 to about 1997-1998 so I am well aware what the device number means. However, it just so happens that the default start address of Basic RAM on a C64 is 0x800 and IIRC one byte is taken up by a special token, so Basic programs load to 0x801.
,8 means load to start of Basic RAM (0x801) while,8,1 loads to the address stored in the file. This was used when you wanted to load machine code programs or chunks of binary data.
No, you missed the point. There's nothing about Linux, Apache, Mozilla or any other such project in this story. Also, this is the games section, and if you'd keep your wildly off-topic drivel out it'd be much appreciated.
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Routers that run full Linux can be had for about $50 (retail, US prices). Most home ADSL/cablemodem/routers seem to be based on ARM7 chips, regardless of brand, and can be made to run uClinux. They can be had for $30 (again retail US prices). I don't know wholesale prices but I'm sure Linksys will give you a quote if you're serious about buying a few thousand.
I do think you're overly optimistic about the availability of Gamecubes. Many years ago I was helping out with a development project to send solar cookers to places like rural Namibia. I'm quite certain that the recipients of said cookers still do not have access to videogame consoles.
As for your travel history, filling four passports travelling to Thailand to visit ladyboys is not something most people would brag about.
I could also add that in many of the places that could use this sort of help, even $30 is way too much money, especially if you're supposed to pay it again and again just because "it broke". Something like a microcontroller with some flash would be closer to the desired price range.
Gee, more namecalling. Maybe it's not my life that lacks inspiration. You probably sit in front of the computer way too much, you have no idea how big and wonderful the world is... my advice to you: Kill yourself.
The Gamecube is hardly suitable for the use you have in mind - the hassle of booting the system should be enough of an indicator (you have tried it, haven't you?)
How does your solution compare to a cheap computer collecting data from remote sensors, keeping in mind that the Cube is designed for living-room use only? Leave it out in the sun and it'll overheat. Leave it out in the dirt and the fan breaks down. Leave it out in the rain and it'll fry. Maybe you're counting on the machines being so cheap that your third-world farmer can buy a new one every time that happens? Assuming, of course, there's a Nintendo retailer around the corner, which there usually isn't. And there's no computer stores or electronics stores either, which is the usual problem the "let's make high-tech available for everyone"-people forget about.
You might want to go back and read your reply to my first post in this thread. Also, didn't anyone ever teach you about making assumptions about people? As I already said, I hack on console hardware. I do it because I enjoy it, and I understand the motivation behind the port very well. But you won't convince me that a Gamecube would make a useful database server, especially with ad hominem attacks.
Gamecube - $100
Broadband adapter - $40
Phantasy Star Online Ep. I&II - $30-40
Computer needed to bootstrap the whole shebang - $100
Add a bit more for assorted network gear and memory cards and you're up to about $300. Why not take that money and get yourself a slightly better computer straight away? Just face it, this is even more of a toy than Dreamcast Linux, which at least had the advantage of being able to boot directly from a CD.
The big steps forward have been the exploitation of the PSO update mechanism to boot selfmade code and the reverse-engineering of the hardware that made the Linux port possible. Compiling a software package after that is mostly an excercise in masochism but nothing insanelygreat.
So yeah, I stand by my statement that trying to use a Gamecube as a database server is pointless especially if it must be backed by a storage server, eliminating the cost argument. I've been hacking on console hardware for about five years now, and while it's fun for the most part it is totally pointless and without purpose. So you know, fuck yourself, asshole.
Dude, unless you plan on storing your whole database in RAM or on a memory card there's very little point in using the Cube as a database server. The machine's network connection is also limited (by the bus the NIC is connected to) so its use even as a frontend is questionable. Hack value, but not any practical value.
Hey, it was written by Robin Miller. Stupid Linux-zealot conclusions are his trademark.
In some article/interview with Valve they disclosed that according to their statistics a significant amount of people played Half-Life using software rendering. I suppose the figure includes both people with old hardware and laptops with sucky graphics hardware. (UT2004 includes a software renderer, specifically to cater for otherwise powerful laptops with sucky graphics hardware.)
Same goes if you search for "XFree86(tm)".
Another similar thing occurred when the new DMCA exemptions were granted last year, allowing the cracking of software on obsolete mediums ("circumvention of access control" or something similar). However, some bright sparks started posting around on the net that old games are no longer protected by copyright and paper game magazines printed that verbatim without ever even bothering to check the facts. Really pathetic, and shows just how pitiful the state of videogame journalism is.
Similar videos exist for most shooters, I've seen some incredible ones of Gigawing and some of the Strikers 1945 games.
Every article (and I use the word in the loosest sense possible) on there praises whoever pays more.
There are no such things.
More recent research indicates that they're not related. And even if they were, there's no shared words (beyond coincidences, but those exist in all languages). A Finn will not understand Hungarian, nor will a Hungarian understand Finnish.
I used a C64 daily from 1984 to about 1997-1998 so I am well aware what the device number means. However, it just so happens that the default start address of Basic RAM on a C64 is 0x800 and IIRC one byte is taken up by a special token, so Basic programs load to 0x801.
Nowadays GEOS is used in Nokia's 9000-series "Communicator" smartphones.
,8 means load to start of Basic RAM (0x801) while ,8,1 loads to the address stored in the file. This was used when you wanted to load machine code programs or chunks of binary data.
Another thing I found interesting (considering the age of the snapshot) is the presence of ia64 support.
If they were to go with Foxhound they could just start ripping names from Metal Gear Solid.
Include Chuck Yeager and I'll consider buying it.
EA vs. Marvel 2004 ...and so on until the sun explodes.
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EA vs. Marvel 2007
No, you missed the point. There's nothing about Linux, Apache, Mozilla or any other such project in this story. Also, this is the games section, and if you'd keep your wildly off-topic drivel out it'd be much appreciated.
If you keep finding yourself thinking about Steve Ballmer the problem lies squarely with you.