iDOT iBox Slim PC
Does anyone have any experience running one of these little beasties? http://www.idot.com/TheStore/Desktop/555Spec.asp?Product.id=555 For $259, you get a cute tiny fanless case, 128MB RAM, 20GB IDE disk, USB 1.1, serial, parallel, some flavor of accelerated graphics with S-Video and composite, audio in/out, mic in, and 10/100 ethernet. They'll pre-install Lindows, but obviously FreeBSD would be nicer. Anybody tried this one out? What works? What doesn't? I'm particularly interested in the CD-RW option. -- Pete Gontier http://www.pete.gontier.org/ Well, there, I met crazy Doctor Low Blood Sugar; now what? -- Powers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: iDOT iBox Slim PC
I found a page for the chip set for this machine: http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_mini_itx_spec.jsp?motherboardId=21 My reading of: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-i386.html ...does not indicate goodness. The OpenBSD story is slightly better; it claims to support ATA. It seems not entirely unreasonable to assume that many functions of the chip set are clones, more or less, of popular chips, but without getting my hands on the machine so I can boot from CD and run dmesg, I'm wary. And in any case a clone still must demonstrate its quality. Maybe it's time to break down and check into Linux. -- Pete Gontier http://www.pete.gontier.org/ I'm not exactly in the mood for Mozart and all THAT kind of goings-on. -- InSoc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: iDOT iBox Slim PC
I'd have sent this to Stijn directly, but his SMTP server thinks I'm a spammer. (I'm so insulted! :-) Anyway it might be of some use to someone else or the archives or something. circa 2/13/03 3:02 AM, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Dillon was busy with a motherboard from the same line at least. Good call. He's definitely using an EPIA, so it sounds like its basics are OK. It's not quite the same motherboard, but it uses the same chip set, so I'm going to pretend it's the same. :-) He did have to do some heinous hacking to make the video work with X. I've sent him email requesting a report on anything else he's learned since starting with these machines. -- Pete Gontier http://www.pete.gontier.org/ My advice to any rock band is this: If you can't do it right, do it anyway. Just do it. Period. -- Poison frontman Bret Michaels To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and DSL CONNECTIVITY ISSUES,
circa 2/13/03 4:02 AM, agmesctaykira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Java applets Uh oh. Customers are reporting issues such as: Recently I've noticed that your site operates very slowly. When I am surfing at , the speed gradually decreases until it won't navigate at all anymore. sometimes even breaks my dsl connection somehow and I have to re-start my computer. One one occasion it actually crashed my machine and caused it to re-boot. These issues are not occurring when visiting other websites. Any ideas? My guess is your Java code has something in it which causes some VMs to degenerate into badness. This is not to say your Java code has bugs, but many VMs do. I can't see how your server would be involved in this sort of problem. I'd gather data on the VMs installed on the machines of the folks who complain. -- Pete Gontier http://www.pete.gontier.org/ Worcestershire sauce?Ketchup?What a suckers! -- Kikkoman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and DSL CONNECTIVITY ISSUES,
circa 2/13/03 3:34 PM, Pete Gontier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Java applets Uh oh. Customers are reporting issues such as: Recently I've noticed that your site operates very slowly. When I am surfing at , the speed gradually decreases until it won't navigate at all anymore. sometimes even breaks my dsl connection somehow and I have to re-start my computer. One one occasion it actually crashed my machine and caused it to re-boot. These issues are not occurring when visiting other websites. Any ideas? My guess is your Java code has something in it which causes some VMs to degenerate into badness. This is not to say your Java code has bugs, but many VMs do. I can't see how your server would be involved in this sort of problem. I'd gather data on the VMs installed on the machines of the folks who complain. I should clarify. People I've talked to who've worked on Java VMs say they get a bad rap. They blame the perception of applets as being unstable on browser developers, who supposedly do a bad job of hosting applets. I have no idea whose side to take on that issue, but gather data on which browsers are causing trouble as well and you may learn something. Another thing to look at since it seems that the problem is isolated to DSL clients is how those clients are connecting to DSL. If most of them are using a USB-to-DSL device, consider whether their driver is having a bad interaction with Java, etc. -- Pete Gontier http://www.pete.gontier.org/ One of her recent paintings, 'Interring the Terrier', 1993, which appears to show a small headless dog being stuffed inside a red armchair by two frogs and a sardine, sold at auction for $21,000 -- a record price... -- Busch and Silver, Why Cats Paint, p55 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
