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If you knew anything about Matt, you'd know describing him as a 'businessman' is pretty absurd.

http://mattdm.org/

So they're basically "reinventing" how BSD does things? They even blatantly copied an OpenBSD image for this presentation...

(Compare slide 13 from the presentation with OpenBSD 4.9 art)

In all seriousness though, it's a pretty good plan. Everyone knows that BSD means real engineering while Linux is "just a hobby, won't be big and professional"

While the article covers the U50/U70 model, it doesn't talk about the slightly older (and kinda hard to get, but still obtainable) Sony U101. I've had one for a while and really love it -- I'm typing this message on it right now. The above linked site is my detailed page on running Linux on the system (which I haven't updated in a while, but will soon, promise). Anyway, unlike the U50, it's shaped more like a mini laptop -- but it's still smaller than some of the systems on handtops.com.

Check out my U101 on Linux page.

I haven't updated it in a while (I was waiting for Fedora Core 2, and I've been really busy), but it's got a lot of very detailed information, including some nice photos.

Check out my U101 on Linux page.

I haven't updated it in a while (I was waiting for Fedora Core 2, and I've been really busy), but it's got a lot of very detailed information, including some nice photos.

Or, if that's not enough of a computer, try the Sony U101 Yes, it does fit in a pocket.

X10 had a niche product - home automation products. Not everyone is willing to replace plugs and switches in their home with x10 enabled smart ones.

And if you are, you're probably getting something of slightly better quality than that you can get from the X10 company itself -- there's several manufacturers making better-quality modules. I use Smarthome's *linc products very happily, although I've heard others complain about their reliablility. I also use a lot of Leviton stuff, which is very solid.

Oh, and Obligatory X10-related Plug: check out my X10-enabled Lego Office.

Every single app that I would want to run is already available and runs under Linux natively. For example:

mozilla, neverwinter nights(w/ expansion pack), gcc, gdb, make, gnuplot, bc, gimp, icebreaker, valgrind, electric fence, Crossfire, LyX, angband, Nethack (falcon's eye), vim, XFree86, pekwm and netpbm.

There are few apps that I run that are not on that list. Really, if you think about it. On any computer system the top 90% of the apps you run could probably be counted on one hand.

But I'm one of those unusual people who has his laser printer working in Linux and only has a windows box to test the software I write. I compile the windows version on Linux of course. (using these scripts to build the cross compiler).

Linux on the U101

Dynamism U101 page

Sony U101 page (in Japanese)

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

Try a Sony U101

Mod me up if this makes you drool :)

Sure it comes only with Japanese Win XP, but who cares when you're just going to send it to the big bit bucket in the sky where it belongs anyway? RH9 installs nicely.

• FreeCiv - free Civ 1/2 clone
  
• Tux Racer - downhill racing game
  
• Tux Typing - typing tutor
  
• IceBreaker - Jezzball clone
  
• Maelstrom - networkable, cool Asteroids clone
  
• Angband - best dungeon crawl ever!
  
• Chromium BSU - neat-o OpenGL 2D shooter
  

Well, I set up a Black & White * Sucks-Rules-O-Meter getting its results from Google -- just one query a day. After about a month, they noticed it and banned my IP from doing that search.

Since that's probably pretty effective in most cases, I'd guess they're not really saving bandwidth with this API, especially since it'll encourage *more* people to do scripted searches (and since the html page is pretty small anyway).

I think they're doing it to appear cool to computer geeks. Works for me....

* the game

Jezzball doesn't run very well under WINE. But luckily, there's a (in all humbleness) much improved native equivalent. So that's not a very good example. :)

• http://otter.yi.org/mirrors/spindletop/ and the PDF
• http://isomerica.net/~dyfrgi/spindletop/ and the PDF
• http://www.mattdm.org/tmp/Spindl3topAOI.PDF

Enjoy the pre-emptively created mirrors! Maybe they'll even be needed.
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I've got a src rpm for memtest86 2.5 at http://www.mattdm.org/misc/memtest/memtest86-2.5-2 .src.rpm.

Install this on your system, change to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ (or wherever is appropriate for your distro), and do rpm -bb memtest86.spec. This will generate a memtest RPM in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ (or again, wherever...). Installing this rpm will set up a memtest entry in your lilo.conf -- very handy. We do this by default for all of our installs at Boston University.

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