[Cialug] Blackdog

[Lee]

I assume you got a working model?

David Champion wrote:

> 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
>>
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