From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Georg Lehner To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: quite Off Topic: Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow References: <818c01eca2880742b4a56e87bc863a99@terzarima.net> <775b8d190612120141g743ddbe2h667cf59d1864b3cd@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10612120655t3016de18oc79feaf62860ee8f@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10612121401s54d5b817p1f0084006cda34f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:41:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <13426df10612121401s54d5b817p1f0084006cda34f6@mail.gmail.com> (ron minnich's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:01:22 -0700") Message-ID: <877iwwocea.fsf_-_@jorgito.magma.com.ni> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: f35dd090-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "ron minnich" writes: > On 12/12/06, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > >> It'd be sweet to have something I could power off of USB 2.0 or >> battery, with a hard drive and wireless (and maybe a serial port for >> jmk). > > yeah, this was one of the ideas that came up before we started on Xen > again, but Aki and Andrey and Lucho beat me up on this idea. It came > down to the EC on one side, and me on the other, and that ended it. Wikipedia: Early Childhood education Electric Circus Elimination Chamber Emergency Contraception Eric Clapton Exacoulomb ahhhhhh!!!! EC =3D Executive Committee! 8-0 > > I suggested running linux on a little 1-5W board, and using it to run > the linux apps, using a root mount from Plan 9. So Linux is this dumb > little headless box you only turn on when you want, and otherwise you > tell it to go away by yanking its power cord, verily. > > They thought the idea, uh, lacked merit. (I think they said it sucked, > but am not sure). > > I think one reason the idea may really suck is that Firefox (the "thin > client") requires a 200 MB footprint, which translates to gobs of > Watts. Figures. Web 2.0! > > [[BTW, anybody but me enjoying the idea of taking an opteron out of > socket and replacing with ... an ... XML ... accelerator?]] > > But I still like the 'stupid little linux CPU' idea. I want a backpack > full of little computers that spin up on demand. And don't weigh much. > and take no power. And have no moving parts. And generate no heat. And > use a fusion reactor for power. And, to reduce weight, have > antigravity pods. I guess I'll go visit Area 52 this weekend (Area 51 > is always behind schedule and over budget). http://www.intellasys.net/ Though: Do you feel like re-implement Plan9 in machine Forth? > > ron --=20 Jorge-Le=F3n