Guy,
you answered a lot of people about their brick answers, excepting mine.
Is that a sign of approval ? ;-)
Again:
http://openbrick.org/
has what you need. NIC, sound, PS/2, video on board, MMC/100% linux
compatible, metal case (durable), multiple sources (if they go out of
business
I forgot to say: the mini itx board format is 170x170mm. The rest of the
case contains power supply, connectors etc. So you can look for a
smaller case and you might find one. Of course real men build their own
custom cases and power supplies. ;-)
Peter
guy keren wrote:
does anyone know if there are such things for sale, either in israel or
via the internet? i imagine such a thing might cost several hundreads of
dollars, and i'd rather buy something pre-built, then build my own - since
it should be able to sustain movement shocks (after all,
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Hi all,
The new kernel (2.6.13) has removed support for devfs. While I certainly
understand why devfs is not on by default, it seems that removing it
altogether is a bit harsh.
Devfs has been a great way to quickly (say - inside an initrd) get a
clear picture of what
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
If you used devfs to find out what hardware you're running on, then
you should consider using sysfs instead. It's an official part of 2.6
anyway.
Yes, I know. It's just that sysfs's way of giving you the major/minor
numbers, and leaving you with the question of ok, so
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
If you used devfs to find out what hardware you're running on, then
you should consider using sysfs instead. It's an official part of 2.6
anyway.
Yes, I know. It's just that sysfs's way of giving you the major/minor
numbers, and leaving you
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Congratulations!
You just re-invented udev (sort of).
I know :-(. Thing is, udev still doesn't exactly solve my problem - it
does not give me preknown names for devices for specific hardware (not
unless I invest the same amount of work or more as writing the script I
After few test, not certain yet i found *Surprise*Surprise* ext3 is
quite fast especially when using dir_index
This is the command i issued. i was recommended going on Journal size of
400 ( not really sure why ).
mke2fs -j -J size=400 -O dir_index -T largefile /dev/sdb1
testing it with
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Sorry but:
2.9 pounds = 1.31541787 kilograms
you're right. i pressed the wrong button on some pounds = kg translation
web site :0
now all i need to do is find something that weighs about 1.3kg in order to
get the feels how how heavy it feels... ;)
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Peter wrote:
you answered a lot of people about their brick answers, excepting mine.
Is that a sign of approval ? ;-)
it means that i had to investigate this further, and at first (due to
incorrect usage of a pounds = g translation web site) i thought the
current bricks
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
You can buy an evalutation kit from Compulab in Haifa of their 686CORE.
It fit your needs, except that you'd have to find some small case for it.
AFAIK it costs around 1500 US$. There is also the issue of their not
quite kosher use of binary only
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
I significantly disagree with Tsafrir.
so do i ;)
What you want and can use is a vortex86 machine/box.
They are very small, have a very light power footprint, easy to add bits
and pieces to, are a full i386 machine. They ARE very underpowered
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, guy keren wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Peter wrote:
you answered a lot of people about their brick answers, excepting mine.
Is that a sign of approval ? ;-)
it means that i had to investigate this further, and at first (due to
incorrect usage of a pounds = g translation
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Eli Marmor wrote:
I was (and I am still) too busy to follow the thread
and yet i'm sure you'll start answering every mail on this thread from now
on ;)
, and maybe it was
already written here, but there are complete PCs of 380gr-500gr,
including EVERYTHING (keyboard,
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:46 +0300, guy keren wrote:
indeed, with the fastest running at 166MHz, they're too weak for my needs.
not to mention the need to assemble a box on my own.
What level of price/performance do you want?
Do you require a VGA screen and PS/2?
There are quite a few Geode
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:46 +0300, guy keren wrote:
indeed, with the fastest running at 166MHz, they're too weak for my needs.
not to mention the need to assemble a box on my own.
What level of price/performance do you want?
the performance
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 22:16 +0300, guy keren wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
What level of price/performance do you want?
the performance should allow me to run a fairly recent linux distribution
- i can't just choose it, since i have to use certain
On 9/7/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Sorry but:
2.9 pounds = 1.31541787 kilograms
you're right. i pressed the wrong button on some pounds = kg translation
web site :0
Do people still use such sites?
That's another reason to just
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 22:16 +0300, guy keren wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
What level of price/performance do you want?
the performance should allow me to run a fairly recent linux distribution
- i can't just choose it,
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 07:04 +0300, guy keren wrote:
1. this shop doesn't seem to perform international shipments. and i heard
that mustop's delivery prices are rather hefty...
Can be overcome. If this is the last objection, tell me.
2. there's no mention on their site regarding a power
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:04:56AM +0300, guy keren wrote:
i'll have to check linux compatibility and shipment issues, and then
choose between this ebox-3850PS and the nimble-v5, most likely. according
to the FAQ, the most modern distributions will pause a little challenge to
install on
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