[conspire] (forw) [ILUG] The Penguin _is_ the computer!

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

As of today, I am in possession of one of these "TuxCase" things. So far,
nothing to put inside it, though. :( Maybe sometime after
MicroControllerShop of Morgan Hill gets some of the boards with a whopping
32MB of RAM in...

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:27:01 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> I liked the comment by the site-visitor "Enko" there: "12. I would totally
> load up those 4 megs with an mp3 and use it as a server." Posted at
> 12:51PM on Mar 1st 2006
> 
> This was referring to the amount of storage memory this Single-Board
> Computer includes, pointing out that it would be perfect to hold a single
> MP3 file. Evidently that person had not seen this: http://alpmp3.sf.net
> 
> You can get only the board in Palo Alto for $175:
> http://www.imagecraft.com/software/orderhardware.html#other
> 
> So, anybody willing to make a working system out of this? It's very
> tempting, but it would be quite time consuming. Also, as can be plainly
> seen from the pictures, the manufacturer had not seen fit to include DIP-
> or JTAG-type connectors, nor even stubs, for the two peripheral junctions,
> meaning that some surface-mount soldering would be necessary for access.
> 
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:22:43 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
>> Ross Bernheim has had some thoughts of physically embedding the 2" x 2"
>> x 2" Intrinsyc CerfCube Linux Web server (StronARM-based) that Deirdre
>> still has from _Linux Journal_ to review, putting it into some fanciful
>> shell, and using it as a distro-server for installfests.  However, the
>> guys referenced below have sort of done that.
>> 
>> I did like one site-visitor's comment:  "With Tux running Linux inside,
>> can we assume that he will not be as susceptible to Bird Flu as his more
>> feathered friends have been?"
>> 
>> ----- Forwarded message from conor at discuskeeping.com -----
>> 
>> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:31:09 +0000 From: conor at discuskeeping.com
>> To: ilug at linux.ie
>> Subject: [ILUG] The Penguin _is_ the computer!
>> 
>> http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/not-content-as-a-mere-sideline-mascot-tux-now-runs-linux/
>> 
>> Soon to be in tinyurl format