On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: > If you must have a biometric scanner for security, there are much > cheaper ways to do it. I just found a 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Profile for > $55. It is a thumbdrive and a fingerprint scanner combined. Add a > Knoppix CD and you have the same functionality as this device. Except > the BlackDog only has a 400MHz PPC CPU and 64MB RAM. This is probably > slower than the host computer will be and it probably has less RAM too. > Also, everything like networking, video, and disk activity must be > squeezed through the USB bus when you use this device. With Knoppix, you > use the PCI and AGP busses of the host computer for these things. > Knoppix should be much faster than this device for most purposes.
Not trying to knock what you're saying but in terms of requirements, both a Knoppix CD and a Blackdog box require a host computer of some kind. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
