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It's not a super powerful system, and you'd (I'm assuming, as it's in Japanese) have to boot it off a CompactFlash card, but if this thing had another LAN port, I could picture this thing being a portable firewall.
Nex said on 01/12/06 @ 08:33 AM: Wow, that is totally awesome. Even though it's obviously not powerful, it's amazingly powerful for two^inches!
You can just take a complete system out of your pocket.
Are they selling it?
Chef Booyadee said on 01/12/06 @ 05:11 PM: Well, if you can install another ethernet port via USB, you're set.
Jake said on 01/13/06 @ 12:10 AM: The problem is that many linux firewalls don't work well out of the box with USB Ethernet adapters.
haedyn cole said on 02/27/06 @ 01:00 PM: I believe that with technilogical difficulties we are having in todays society this computer will never last. But if you do instal the ethernet port via USB it may succeed.