Hello! It's funny. I had looked at a similar box from Advantech; they make industrial PCs that can survive everything from extreme industrial environments to small children and pets.
But the price for the thing fired a barrage of MK48 torpedoes at the idea. (For those of you who don't know that's specie of a weapon from our Navy designed for some decidedly outrageous things. Perhaps they did use them, we'll never find out.) Anyway it was at least the price of the thing from Acer, (US prices not your AUD amount Robert.) that through the <SPLAT!> on the idea. Until your suggestion NJH I decided to some how create my own design admittedly surrounding that idea behind what you're using. Next question, is this thing working, and is it accessible online? (To see what you are using it for of course.) -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: njh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Owfs-developers] Netbook as OWFS server > > I use JrSXs, at $90 from http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrsx/index.html > > they use 2W, use any 5V supply, have serial and USB ports and run linux > off a compact flash card trivially. They have ethernet and svga. > > njh > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mr Robert Conway wrote: > > > Was recently looking at the small Atom based netbooks. Specifically the Acer Aspire > one, at AUD$430.00 it seems a great LOW cost platform to become a OWFS server > coupled with Apache seems a great self contained platform. 1.6GHZ ATOM CPU, 1 G > RAM and 120GB HDD. I would suggest at 1.6ghz maybe a good platform for a ubuntu > server class install that would be able to host a modest Apache installation. Must be orders > of magnitude better than an NSLU2. > > > > Anybody have any thoughts experiences in using these newer "Netbooks" in a 365/24hr > role. Although obviously not for critical applications, it would draw little power and with > wifi be self contained standalone with a great screen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
