On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:49:00PM -0400, Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > Since our group seems to have a core interest in "Hardware" + "FOSS" => > "cool device", did everyone see this article? > > WARNING! this article is about an interview with Eben Moglen who may offend > some people on this list. > http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Eben-Moglen-Freedom-vs-the-Cloud-Log-955421.html > > The device in question can be found at http://www.openplug.org/ >
I had one for a while. It's a small linux pc. Not much more, not much less. Unless you have something that will run with no display and only needs one ethernet port, they're fairly limited in their awesomeness. It's sort of useful as a media server, except it only has one USB port so it can't do a lot of drives at reasonable bandwidth, and it can't do video out (unless you also do another USB thing, which further consumes your USB bandwidth.) It seems to exist mostly because it can, not because there's anything hugely useful to do with it. It doesn't have the ports to be a router or more than the most basic of NAS boxes. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 "Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments." -- Neal Stephenson
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