[Cialug] Blackdog

[David Champion]

Just received the Blackdog. It's tiny - I was thinking it would be about 
the size of my Treo 600, but it's about 1/2 that size.

-dc

David Champion wrote:
> I think they should use Dread Zeppelin's cover of Led Zeppelin's "Black 
> Dog".
> 
> -dc
> 
> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
>> Heh, good music on their Demo too 'Been 'caught steelin' ya once, when 
>> I was
>> five'...
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Champion [mailto:dave at visionary.com] Sent: Monday, 
>> November 14, 2005 12:03 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: [Cialug] Blackdog
>>
>>
>> FYI:
>>
>> Steve McCool from Project Blackdog said he's going to try to get a 
>> demo unit shipped to me for the meeting this week.
>>
>> You may recall I forwarded a message a while back about this... the 
>> web site is:
>>
>> http://www.projectblackdog.com/
>>
>> On a similar note, there was just an article at Tom's Hardware about a 
>> little portable drive with Ubuntu on it. The biggest complaint they 
>> had about it was the slow drive speed, so it takes about 5 minutes to 
>> boot. This is a different way about it - the blackdog is a computer 
>> that uses your PC as the display / network, and doesn't require a 
>> reboot. The Ubuntu H2 is just a bootable drive, and you use the host 
>> PC for everything else.
>>
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20051110/index.html
>>
>> IMHO - if you're going to go that route, I'd rather use a bootable CD 
>> and a USB pen drive combo like you can with Knoppix or Mandrake Move. 
>> A lot of PC's don't support booting from USB devices, and if they do, 
>> require BIOS changes to make that happen.
>>
>> -dc