treehugger.com— VIA seems to be the rear to watch as they continue to lead the pack in cranking out energy-efficient computing parts. We reviewed this tiny motherboard a while ago and came out grinning.
Aug 25, 2007View in Crawl 4
That depends really. For the guy up a few comments, with 9 computers, you could make one of them the firewall / print server/ file server for the other 8, handle DHCP for the network, monitor household traffic, host web traffic/ssh connections etc. Stuff a Linksys router doesn't do. I see nothing wrong with using a full PC for a firewall as long as it's doing other things also.
Product code names. I don't know how they choose them, but it certainly wouldn't embarrass me. Most consumers never see the code names anyways, even fewer would see Via's codenames in embedded products. The fact that the chip in my laptop is codenamed "Merom" or "Barton" has little significance on anything.
Just get a large passive (fanless) heatsink for your processor and a passively cooled PSU - Thermaltake has a few.I don't know how hot 2600s run, but you could probably undervolt/clock it to keep it cooler.
FYI Its not kernel which is stopping people from migrating to new archs. It is those f**ng applications. How will you make that win32,mfc, win16 gui apps and those old dos apps to run on some foreign architecture?
arcookeAug 26, 2007
Nice to see someone comment on a digg story and actually know what they're talking about. Kudos to you, geminitojanus.
msgyrdAug 26, 2007
That depends really. For the guy up a few comments, with 9 computers, you could make one of them the firewall / print server/ file server for the other 8, handle DHCP for the network, monitor household traffic, host web traffic/ssh connections etc. Stuff a Linksys router doesn't do. I see nothing wrong with using a full PC for a firewall as long as it's doing other things also.
msgyrdAug 26, 2007
Product code names. I don't know how they choose them, but it certainly wouldn't embarrass me. Most consumers never see the code names anyways, even fewer would see Via's codenames in embedded products. The fact that the chip in my laptop is codenamed "Merom" or "Barton" has little significance on anything.
Closed AccountAug 27, 2007
huhuhuhuh, he said penetration.
darkpenguinAug 27, 2007
WTF? Why is everyone digging down bonexaw? Has anyone here taken physics?
darkpenguinAug 27, 2007
Just get a large passive (fanless) heatsink for your processor and a passively cooled PSU - Thermaltake has a few.I don't know how hot 2600s run, but you could probably undervolt/clock it to keep it cooler.
unikuserAug 27, 2007
FYI Its not kernel which is stopping people from migrating to new archs. It is those f**ng applications. How will you make that win32,mfc, win16 gui apps and those old dos apps to run on some foreign architecture?