[Cialug] Blackdog

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Dave has all the cool toys....

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:09, 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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