Archive for March 14th, 2004

Embedded PC

Sunday, March 14th, 2004


While chasing down a fairly pedestrian story on Slashdot about building your own LCD picture frame (seems rather obvious, use a box, a VIA motherboard, some minimal carpentry) I did find an interesting link to Mini-Box.Com.
The link was in reference to their small power supplies, but they also sell a cute little embedded PC called the mini-box M100. It’s a mere 20cmx4.4cmx22cm and weighs only 1 kilo. If it had two network ports, it would be idea for an embedded gateway/firewall box, but it also has enough power to do PVR or jukebox functionality well.

Price is around $400, which is high but not insane. I can’t justify gettting one for myself (I have a surplus of computing equipment at the moment), but if you have need of such a thing, you might give it a look.


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Remember, don’t stare at the mantis leaders…

Sunday, March 14th, 2004

Are you troubled by frequent alien abductions and their tricksy mind control? Well, it is good to see that amateur scientists are hard at work to make alien abductions a think of the past. Check out the Stop Alien Abductions website for information of we can shrug off the hypnotic suggestions of our alien slave masters.

Thanks to Stephan for passing this one along.

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