[Cialug] Blackdog

David Champion dave at visionary.com
Mon Nov 14 13:26:56 CST 2005


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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