I live in South Dakota and can easily get 5 mbps up/50 down through the local cable company. Its also quite common for the smaller towns in the area to have FTTH.
I can see the VIA cpu's being practical in a firewall/VPN node within that rack due to their hardware accelerated encryption engine, as shown in http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/hardw are.jsp but Pentium M based mini-itx boxes would be a much wiser, albeit pricier choice, performance wise.
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I live in South Dakota and can easily get 5 mbps up/50 down through the local cable company. Its also quite common for the smaller towns in the area to have FTTH.
I wonder why they didnt use H.264 or VC1 instead of MPEG2? You'd figure that they would stress the players a tad more than MPEG2 would...
In Australia, hard disks wipe you !
you forgot the obligatory: +++ATH NO CARRIER
per TFA, it looks like floppyfw http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
I can see the VIA cpu's being practical in a firewall/VPN node within that rack due to their hardware accelerated encryption engine, as shown in http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/hardw are.jsp but Pentium M based mini-itx boxes would be a much wiser, albeit pricier choice, performance wise.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these....