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Date:      Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:22:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality <cjc26@cornell.edu>
To:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Got a match?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908301820050.520-100000@tankgrrl>
In-Reply-To: <19990816114104.A231@whizkidtech.net>

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I wonder what kind of security features this thing has.  I wouldn't want
script kiddies fooling with my lights, or the thermostat :)

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:

| Here is an interesting web site about the new IPic - a match head 
| sized web-server:
| 
| http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
| 
| This is a tiny chip that can be added to just about appliance. The IPic 
| is a TCP/IP stack in hardware, along with a web server built in.
| 
| That should allow us to turn on a coffee machine, program a VCR, or 
| cook dinner from our computers, whether at home or via the Internet.
| 
| Technical documentation is available from the above web site.
| 
| I just discovered the web site by reading about it in a different 
| mailing list (that is, I had nothing to do with its design, mind you).
| 
| Fascinating...
| 
| Adam
| 
| 

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