Tale of a Black Dog - page 4
A Different Type of Canine
With the new product in hand, I proceeded to once again start my testing. This time, thankfully, the new Dog responded as expected.
Starting up the Black Dog using the process mentioned above, I soon found that the little fella was somewhat devoid of personality out of the box. Yes, the biometric scanner automatically calibrates to your finger with a few presses of the thumb (that's quite a neat bit of technology on such a small device). But other capabilities are rather bland in its initial state.
The original pop-up menu contains just four items: Info, XGalaga, XBlast, and XTerm. Hardly a mind-blowing group of applications, this limited repertoire might seem seriously underwhelming if you were expecting the device to jump to life with an amazing array of programs.
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YahooBuzzOn the server side of things, the Black Dog includes an Apache web server
(currently containing one page with helpful links to the Black Dog Project
website) and a Samba server ready to share the pooch's full 512-MB file
system. And, of course, there are the usual assortment of basic command
line utilities which lurk under the covers (see Figure 4).
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