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On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 20:39 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> On 24 May 2010, at 14:11, James wrote: |
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> > ... Beware, it often becomes a life long |
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> > passion to the point of an addition. |
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> This is exactly what I fear of using such specialist hardware! Far |
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> better to burn a few watts, than to have to learn such intricacies! |
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We buy about 5 - 10 of these (started on the net4801, now the net5501) |
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per year at work: |
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http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-net5501.php |
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And make them do various things ranging in intensity from data servers |
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to gateway/firewall/routers and so on. We've used IDE and flash in |
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them, usually IDE for the convenience. We compile for x86. The 4 |
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network ports are nice, and there's some GPIO to boot. |
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They offer a range of free distributions for various purposes: |
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http://www.yawarra.com.au/ti-software.php#free |
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some are just links to the projects, some are pre-built for the device. |
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Would be good to get you started before you've customised it the way you |
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like. |
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That's an Australian company, but the boards come from |
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http://www.soekris.com/ so you may be able to order from them and |
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build / buy your own case. |
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hth, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Lucas' Law: Good will always win, because evil hires the _stupid_ |
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engineers. |
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