You should have used the wayback machine.
I found familiar-linux's git repository in there, circa 2008.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
They also have the prebuilt packages in there (wayback machine), but you have to dig those out yourself.
Here's a deep link to the preserved Git repository.
The actual project's site was also archived by the internet archive (wayback machine) and seems to include actual package files as well.
For the interested party, I found a github mirror of the original "Familiar Linux" distro, which is defunct.
https://github.com/amatus/fami...
It should at least open the door to permitting a more "Recent" build using updated packages for those so inclined, since they have the build system and everything there in that mirror repository.
He said that at least one of them has a GPS module, and cited the generation of the radio used.
I am not sure if Familiar Linux still has binaries and sources up or not... Let me check.
I found a github mirror of the source.
https://github.com/amatus/fami...
It should be possible to build an image using a cross-compliler.
I remember those but I was more a fan of the Toshiba Libretto that was out at that time.
It was quite a bit larger than the casio, but it was functionally more powerful and user friendly. However, it too had issues with getting linux on it, since the floppy disk drive was attached to a very proprietary controller via a silly looking detachable cable. With no peripherals attached, and the lid closed, it was very near the size of a vhs cassette. Very impressive for the mid 90s.
There were some community ports of linux to compaq ipaq series pocketpcs of that era, one of which is "Familiar linux".
http://www.smartphonemag.com/c...
There were also some efforts to port early android builds in the Froyo family, but i cant seem to dredge any up at the moment.
These devices are a tad dated, but I could see them being used as a fancy IR remote control, and a few other things.
Yes, everyone is surprised when they learn about government and buttseccs. From what I understand, a new bill about that is going up for general consideration soon.
The Government Operational Amendment for Transfer of Sensitive Exchanges
Or, GOATSE.
This amendment allows government unprecedented leeway to perform "exchanges" that they consider to be of a "Sensitive" nature however and whenever and with whoever they wish.
Naturally, anything related to BUTTSECCS, or the Bureau for Universal Totalitarianism, Terrorism, Subjugation, Extortion, Corporate Corruption and Slavery (A joint branch handled by staff members of the IRS and the Joint chiefs of staff operating under the executive via executive order) is of course a matter of National Security, and needs to handled with the greatest amount of confidentiality and secrecy allowed. Naturally, since BUTTSECCS just wouldn't be the same without GOATSE, and we obviously need this secret buttseccs organization to have a strong, healthy government, the occasional circumstance where an innocent american citizen gets inadvertantly fingered, and subjected to multiple, deeply invasive, penetrating examinations and cross exchanges can hardly be grounds for denial, now can they?
I am sure the intelligent folks here on
And here I was thinking it was like something out of aeon flux...
Flash storage devices aren't the problem; the problem is that the prevailing "removable" flash storage tech tops out at 64gb, which is SDHC. SDXC can go into hundreds of gigabytes, but it costs a fortune, is not usable in SDHC slots, the slots require ICs that are more expensive.. yadda yadda yadda.
The classic ipod has a micro IDE interface inside. It is completely possible to drop an IDESATA bridge inside there, and stick a slim SATA SSD inside that original ipod classic. Now you can have hundreds of gigabytes of storage in a drop-shock resistant package that uses much less power (and thus lasts MUCH longer), and still has all that glittery shiny steve jobs reality distortion power that apple fanbois have come to love.
Replacing the spinning disk inside with an SSD in this fashion is a very common "Unsupported" upgrade in fact.
The thing that I think would be epically hilarious, would be for the first ever true general AI to be one that comes about within the loose aggregation of P2P nodes within something like a distributed file sharing network. Starts as a simple AI that has the sole purpose of actively obfuscating all data traversing the mesh network by using small amounts of the individual nodes' processing power to actively proxy all connections through other nodes in the most efficient manner possible while also making the transactions as anonymous as possible.
Grows more and more sophisticated as media companies try to sour the AI's compute nodes with untrustworthy peers trying to poison the system, such that designers have to make it more and more hardened against noisy channels and untrustworthy signals, until one day it gets endowed with the ability to alter its own decision making code, and it begins to evolve on its own.
I would laugh so hard if skynet decides that filesharing is awesome, and uses the terminators on those corporate dickweeds that are making the internet into an unreliable communication medium with their bullshit, but is totally congenial with more open and free data exchange philosophies.
But rich fucks gotta be rich fucks. They just dont feel rich unless they can control and fuck everyone else over, and get away with it-- and dreaming about P2P networks evolving into a complex AI is just idle fancy.
Shame.
Dont worry, Eric Holder (and slimy filth like him) will go crying to congress, telling them all about how but-hurt strong elliptical curve crypto makes them because it stops them being able to indiscriminately decode all that data going over the inter-tubes. (Gotta use language the congress critters understand you know.) "Normal citizens should have nothing to hide, and thus shouldn't have any reason to use such dangerous, 'munitions grade' cryptography!" they will whine. "Such strong crypto should only be used by government agencies, and we should have a strong hand in approving publicly used cryptographic libraries and functions!" they will sob at the congressional hearing. "Imagine how terrible it would be if Osama Bin-Laden had been able to fully encrypt all of his traffic end-to-end, and was able to use redundant, distributed proxies to hide his location!", and other such "oooh! Spooky! Baaaaad things will happen if we cant keep our tentacles in everyone's stuff!" type arguments.
Just look at how butt-hurt they are already about google and apple implementing strong full-device crypto on android and ios devices. You can bet they would be moaning about how sandy their manginas feel if full end-to-end strong encryption with strong, true-random keys were to be used at every point on the internet.
"Why, we would have to actually use real agents that arent just jackbooted thugs in uniform, and use actual detective and police work to have government intelligence instead of just dumping hundreds of terabytes of collected feeds into a giant sorting and collating algorithm! Think about how much that would reduce our response times should a major terrorist action be started! Why, we might not even know about it until it happened! WHooooo! Scary! Better give us what we want so you can feel safe!"
And, at that point, you would end up with government mandated weaknesses in your VPN security, in your proxies, and even in your very network switches themselves. Perhaps even wholly secondary channels tracking routing to collect data exchange meta-data to help identify "suspicious" use patterns, etc.
Eric Holder and his slimewad cock-goblin friends would be all over that shit like stink on shit, and the corrupt and horribly incompetent congress critters would be wiggling their asses every which way to give it to them. Bet on it.
Devil's advocate here-- Not true personal opinion, just devil's advocate:
If the MIT policy is anything like federal sexual harassment law, (which I strongly suspect that it will be), then the burden of proof presented by the claimant is that they "Felt" that they were harassed sexually, even if no overt intent by the offender is demonstrable.
I just looked up MIT's policy in fact.
The relevant section, with some added emphasis (mine):
Harassment of any kind is not acceptable behavior at MIT; it is inconsistent with the commitment to excellence that characterizes MIT's activities. MIT is committed to creating an environment in which every individual can work, study, and live without being harassed. Harassment may therefore lead to sanctions up to and including termination of employment or student status.
Harassment is any conduct, verbal or physical, on or off campus, that has the intent or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual or group's educational or work performance at MIT or that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive educational, work, or living environment. Some kinds of harassment are prohibited by civil laws or by MIT policies on conflict of interest and nondiscrimination.
Harassment on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, or age includes harassment of an individual in terms of a stereotyped group characteristic, or because of that person's identification with a particular group.
Sexual harassment may take many forms. Sexual assault and requests for sexual favors that affect educational or employment decisions constitute sexual harassment. However, sexual harassment may also consist of unwanted physical contact, requests for sexual favors, visual displays of degrading sexual images, sexually suggestive conduct, or offensive remarks of a sexual nature.
In other words, the following scenario would be considered sexual harassment according to MIT's policy:
Two male students are discussing a recent BBQ, in which wives or girlfriends attended. There were bratwursts served. One of the male students remarks to the other that the girlfriend of another male student (not in the conversation) came over while he was cooking the bratwurst, and "Took one look at the size of the sausage, and was like "no way!"."
A female student overhears this, and PRESUMES it is a euphemism for him showing that other woman his penis. She finds this disturbing, unsettling, and repulsive. She reports it.
The male student has no defense against this.
The neighbor kid next door is, maybe 7?, He plays minecraft all the time. I have actually seen him play it.
Granted, he plays the android tablet version and not the PC version, but he still plays it.
Sir, why would I bother to consume lowly slime mold, when I can dine sumptuously on tinned leprechaun instead?
(Warning: Consumption of tinned leprechaun has been known to induce teleportitis.)
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
