"ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/12/06, Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It'd be sweet to have something I could power off of USB 2.0 or >> battery, with a hard drive and wireless (and maybe a serial port for >> jmk). > > yeah, this was one of the ideas that came up before we started on Xen > again, but Aki and Andrey and Lucho beat me up on this idea. It came > down to the EC on one side, and me on the other, and that ended it.
Wikipedia: Early Childhood education Electric Circus Elimination Chamber Emergency Contraception Eric Clapton Exacoulomb ahhhhhh!!!! EC = Executive Committee! 8-0 > > I suggested running linux on a little 1-5W board, and using it to run > the linux apps, using a root mount from Plan 9. So Linux is this dumb > little headless box you only turn on when you want, and otherwise you > tell it to go away by yanking its power cord, verily. > > They thought the idea, uh, lacked merit. (I think they said it sucked, > but am not sure). > > I think one reason the idea may really suck is that Firefox (the "thin > client") requires a 200 MB footprint, which translates to gobs of > Watts. Figures. Web 2.0! > > [[BTW, anybody but me enjoying the idea of taking an opteron out of > socket and replacing with ... an ... XML ... accelerator?]] > > But I still like the 'stupid little linux CPU' idea. I want a backpack > full of little computers that spin up on demand. And don't weigh much. > and take no power. And have no moving parts. And generate no heat. And > use a fusion reactor for power. And, to reduce weight, have > antigravity pods. I guess I'll go visit Area 52 this weekend (Area 51 > is always behind schedule and over budget). http://www.intellasys.net/ Though: Do you feel like re-implement Plan9 in machine Forth? > > ron -- Jorge-León
