$100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available 464
nerdyH sends us to LinuxDevices for a description of a tiny Linux device called the Marvell SheevaPlug. "A $100 Linux wall wart could do to servers what netbooks did to notebooks. With the Marvell SheevaPlug, you get a completely open (hardware and software) Linux server resembling a typical wall-wart power adapter, but running Linux on a 1.2GHz CPU, with 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of Flash. I/O includes USB 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, while expansion is provided via an SDIO slot. The power draw is a nightlight-like 5 Watts. Marvell says it plans to give Linux developers everything they need to deliver 'disruptive' services on the device." The article links four products built on the SheevaPlug, none of them shipping quite yet. The development kit is available from Marvell.
Did anyone else read this as (Score:5, Funny)
$100 Linux Wall-Mart now available? That would be cool.
Re:Did anyone else read this as (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wall-Mart? (Score:5, Funny)
Why do I keep reading that as Wall-Mart?
Because they got to you.
Re:Wall-Mart? (Score:3, Funny)
That's funny; I see Wall-fnordWart.
Re:I'll tell you why... (Score:4, Funny)
I didn't understand a thing you said.
Copreehenshon is impotent too.
Re:Beowulf Cluster (Score:5, Funny)
"Or at least a small chunk of Nantucket, RI"
That would be no small feat, seeing as Nantucket isn't in Rhode Island.
Re:Did anyone else read this as (Score:5, Funny)
I hope they sell them at Wal-mart. A Wal-mart Wall-Wart would be cool!
Imagine a beowolf cluster of OW!! OW!! STOP HITTING ME!!!
Goatse would love this.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'll tell you why... (Score:5, Funny)
It's always heartening when someone can't sling an insult correctly due to their own ignorance...
It's You're a stupid nigger... (the apostrophe indicates dropped letters [wikipedia.org].
For what it's worth I usually see this type of comment from someone who's trying to suppress homosexual urges involving dark-brown penises....
Re:Wall-Mart? (Score:2, Funny)
That's just weird.
It clearly reads "fnord-fnord-wall-fnord-mart-fnord."
Re:Beowulf Cluster (Score:5, Funny)
It will be. It. Will. Be.
Re:Did anyone else read this as (Score:5, Funny)
Re:trouble with cart? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How much for a multi-ethernet-port version? (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed. There are countless uses for something like this. 2009 will be the year of Linux in the outlet! ;-)
HEY! (Score:4, Funny)
Does anyone know what happened to the server? It just quit responding, and when I went to check it, all I found was a cell-phone charger.
Re:Power over Ethernet (Score:5, Funny)
I'm more interested in a version that supports PoE.
That would be cool! Then you could add an inverter and power the outlet strip. ;-)
Re:Power over Ethernet (Score:5, Funny)
You, sir, are the reason they put warning labels on toothpicks. :)
Re:I'll tell you why... (Score:5, Funny)
Profanity is the last resort of desperately inarticulate motherfuckers.
Re:HEY! (Score:5, Funny)
They were running the webserver on it so........it popped out of the wall.
Re:I'll tell you why... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Did anyone else read this as (Score:3, Funny)
Apparently Linux devices was running their site on this thing and it melted to the wall.
Re:Got plenty of ideas (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a great industrial espionage device (Score:4, Funny)
the device would not likely be discovered visually, given it was placed well to begin with.
But if you're going to go to the trouble of carefully hiding an electronic device somewhere in an office, would you really choose this wall wart or something else? [thinkgeek.com]
Re:Sounds like a great industrial espionage device (Score:3, Funny)
I suspect that in most places it could be there for months -- maybe years -- before anyone noticed. Make sure the drop isn't traceable to you and just collect the take as long as it goes unnoticed.
You forgot some steps...
1. Place device
2. Collect the take 'as long as it goes unnoticed'
3. ???
4. Do not pass 'go'.
5. Do not collect $200.
Re:Did anyone else read this as (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How much for a multi-ethernet-port version? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Did anyone else read this as (Score:3, Funny)
Twenty computers the size of wall worts plugged into four power strips?
Damn, that is cute computing. If it didn't cost $2k to do, it'd be something I'd do right now. Think of the bragging rights: "Yeah, this mid-tower? it's got 20, 1.2GHz cores with 10Gb of RAM."
Though, personally, I'd probably just nail the power strips on a piece of plywood and display them in the living room...
Always happens... (Score:2, Funny)