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| Q: How is this possible? |
A:This amazing breakthrough is possible now only through the serendipitous combination of a low-heat, low-wattage computing platform wrapped around a high-density storage system (the iPod), and a port of the famous Linux operating system to that platform (iPodLinux). |
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| Q: Linux on an iPod? |
A: See for yourself! |  |
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| Q: But my iPod only has Firewire or USB out, how is it possible to put such a "system" on the Internet? |
A: While it is true that you can't just plug your USB cable from your iPod Nano to the USB port on your cablemodem and expect to have a node on the Internet, we have a proprietary bridging technology that allows us to leverage commodity 1-U and 2-U rackmount servers, nano-ITX motherboards, and custom-fabricated cages to provision a single rack unit with up to 47 USB-based iPod Nano servers. The 2-U servers can hold up to 218 iPod Nanos, or 76 60GB iPod Video units. |
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| Q: What can I run on my server? |
A: Anything you can run on any Linux server, from the Apache webserver, to JBoss, to your very own online store, complete with email, credit card processing, and dynamic, database-driven content. While most functionality will operate acceptably with the default Network Address Translation (NAT) provided by the host nano-ITX bridge, dedicated, static IP addresses (necessary for SSL processing) are available for an additional fee. |
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| Q: Is this for real? |
A: Absolutely not! I
was bored one night right around the
end of March, and thought it would be
amusing to spoof the macminicolo
sites. I've left it up because people
still look at it and get a chuckle. I
figure that's a decent ROI. |
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