I run 5 small sites on a single Fit-PC (http://www.fit-pc.com/) running Tunrkey Linux (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/).
Instead of a HD, I've installed a CF card using a CF to IDE adapter, so the setup is completely solid state.
The server has no fan, is not much bigger than a deck of cards and has been quietly working away at 3W for the past year.
This will be very useful for functional fonts such as Harvey Balls or Dice - up until now they needed to be drawn. By embedding a font you can start to use the fonts in online applications such as games or dashboards, etc.
Here are a couple of proof-of-concepts... (obviously you need a compliant browser to view this)
My old 2006 vintage Mac Mini still seems to be the fastest in the land. I did the infamous Merom Upgrade to it almost 3 years ago and it's still alive and kicking. The Geekbench on my machine comes out to 3060.. you can see the full details here:
http://www.ambor.com/public/meromswap/meromswap.html
After having successfully rescued some 1929-era shellac 78rpm records, I tried to migrate some late 1990s era CD-Rs to a hard drive and most of them had already deteriorated enough to corrupt data.
There are tools to overcome some of this, but don't count on any media lasting in an "archive" - you must have plan in place to regularly migrate the data to newer media.
You can read more about it here: http://blog.ambor.com/2009/01/rescuing-corrupted-files-from-old-media.html
The reason that the 12C / 12C Platinum is allowed on exams (e.g. CFP and CFA Certification Exams, and the GARP FRM Exam) is precisely because they are deemed "not hackable" by the people running the exams.
I guess professors today are a bit more savvy, but when the HP28 first came out and I asked my history professor if I could "bring a calculator" he couldn't see why not:)
Coincidentally, I just spent the last weekend converting some old 78s using a modern (albeit not laser-based) record player. I wrote a little article about it here: http://www.ambor.com/public/78rpm/78rpm.html, including some sample audio clips that show what the raw recording sounds like and then shows what some open source audio restoration software can do.
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Looking forward to not needing to look for the "Long S" character on my keyboard anymore http://blog.ambor.com/2013/07/an-unexpected-risk-of-using-re-captcha.html - I'm always worried that my employer is filtering on words like goatfucker when I mean to write goat(Long-S)ucker.
And here is another solution http://blog.ambor.com/2009/02/remote-control-by-sms-with-gsm-phone.html which gives a bit more granularity in your control.
I run 5 small sites on a single Fit-PC (http://www.fit-pc.com/) running Tunrkey Linux (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/). Instead of a HD, I've installed a CF card using a CF to IDE adapter, so the setup is completely solid state. The server has no fan, is not much bigger than a deck of cards and has been quietly working away at 3W for the past year.
Here are a couple of proof-of-concepts... (obviously you need a compliant browser to view this)
http://www.ambor.com/hb/webdice.html
http://www.ambor.com/hb/webharveyballs.html
My old 2006 vintage Mac Mini still seems to be the fastest in the land. I did the infamous Merom Upgrade to it almost 3 years ago and it's still alive and kicking. The Geekbench on my machine comes out to 3060.. you can see the full details here: http://www.ambor.com/public/meromswap/meromswap.html
After having successfully rescued some 1929-era shellac 78rpm records, I tried to migrate some late 1990s era CD-Rs to a hard drive and most of them had already deteriorated enough to corrupt data. There are tools to overcome some of this, but don't count on any media lasting in an "archive" - you must have plan in place to regularly migrate the data to newer media. You can read more about it here: http://blog.ambor.com/2009/01/rescuing-corrupted-files-from-old-media.html
HP calculators have always been hackable.
The reason that the 12C / 12C Platinum is allowed on exams (e.g. CFP and CFA Certification Exams, and the GARP FRM Exam) is precisely because they are deemed "not hackable" by the people running the exams.
I guess professors today are a bit more savvy, but when the HP28 first came out and I asked my history professor if I could "bring a calculator" he couldn't see why not :)
Coincidentally, I just spent the last weekend converting some old 78s using a modern (albeit not laser-based) record player. I wrote a little article about it here: http://www.ambor.com/public/78rpm/78rpm.html, including some sample audio clips that show what the raw recording sounds like and then shows what some open source audio restoration software can do.