The main issue with booting real linux on a chromebook is the use of the SPI bus instead of a legacy PCI bus. This makes for serious issues with getting SDCard slots, keyboards, and mice running.
Linux can fix that by adding better support for SPI based devices in mainline, but clearly it is google's fault. (rolls eyes)
While I agree that MS needs a good testicle stomping for this, there might be a way out of this technologically.
If I am understanding the issue correctly:
1) The drive uses a proprietary RAID encoding 2) Only windows supports this RAID config
So, options:
1) Replace the drive with an unencumbered controller, and dont boot windows. For added security, set a management password on the drive to prevent the bios from fudging with it using another system first.
2) Boot the computer into recovery mode, and start a cli console. Run the drive's firmware update utility to wipe the drive and reset its options, and once all the ata settings are reset, set a master password to keep the bios out.
If either of those two fail, (because the bios is sabotaged to force-set the drive into that mode instantly on power on, or some other shennanigans, like refusing to work with a drive that is not in that mode) THEN sue the shit out of microsoft, and Lenovo for conspiring to engage in illegal anticompetitive behavior.
personally, i would say cancer is much more like wallstreet fatcats.
a mutation in the rules governing proper behavior causes them to consume all available resources, send ssignals to the regulatory system that they are essential and need protection, while earnestly believing they are the most important part of the system while destroying it from the inside, due to the removal of a system to terminate that behavior early.
Unless that reprogramming is to forcibly initiate apoptosis of the cell, via protein assisted activation through binding will a known cancerous mRNA in the cytoplasm, i agree completely.
anti-nuke hysteria, fanned by the cold war and the Chernobyl disaster, and promoted in the press by pro-oil interests, resulted in the US putting a moratorium on the construction of additional nuclear power stations, and the increased buildout of coal and petroleum fired power plants.
How is acknowledging that the NIMBY movement that was so easily motivated by these factors were instrumental in the reaching of that policy decision, in any way credibility deflating?
To this very day, this group is STILL vocal against nuclear power, even demanding that funding for fusion not go forward, erroneously believing fusion energy to be polluting with long lived radioactive waste.
This is true, but at current atmospheric co2 levels, even switching to wholly green energy at this point will continue to see global temperature increases, because of the atmosphere's new thermal capacity, and inability to radiate heat away into space.
You haven't been paying attention. We don't have time, even if we just dumped money on fusion research.
The time window to turn this around has ended. Climate change is inevitable now. We had a chance to turn this around in the 70s, but blew it because climate change is a myth.
Spending money on fusion was a boondoggle, remember?
Do you think I LIKE that we are well and truly fucked, because of conspicuous consumption by idiots like you? Fuck you, no.
Yup, and when the planet enters an iceage from increased cloud cover, I am sure all that technology will enable continued use of intensive agriculture, which needs sunlight we won't be getting because of the clouds.
Nature will decimate the human population most brutally.
But it will all be OK, because none of that will actually happen, so drill baby drill!
The second law of thermodynamics will not be wished away any time soon. Human activity requires energy. Used energy becomes heat. Human use of energy sources currently outstrips the rate that energy is sequestered in the earth's crust. Increased technology will perpetuate the need for more energy, and more energy sources.
As a species, we are confronted with a painful choice. Continue like there is no problem, destroy the biosphere, and die-- or cut back on technological and industrial advancement so that our resource consumption remains at parity with what our biosphere can handle, and maybe survive.
Those are the choices we have. Magic pixie dust where Jesus makes the earth cooler so you can keep driving an SUV is not one of the choices.
Reality doesn't give a fuck about you or anyone else. You are not being presented with an option where you get out of the consequences of conspicuous consumption. That is the point idiot.
Indeed! Now if only those damned scientists would just accept that this is fact, we can all get back to driving hummers and using incandescent lightbulb, like god intended!
The GOP, the oil industry, and The Donald ALL agree!
Stories from Nature Magazine suggesting permanent droughts in California http://www.nature.com/articles... are just fear mongering to distract you from your civic obligation to consume conspicuously and excessively!
Industry must continue to grow eternally, or the financial Apocalypse will happen!
remember, Jesus will come and fix everything, so its all good!
The CPU gets hot when in use. To overcome thermal noise, the voltage on the CPU goes up a little.
There is an expected tolerance band for operation, and the control of the voltage on the CPU and ram has upper bounds for very good reasons.
I am suggesting that the normal operation of this voltage regulation under computational load results in increased bus noise due to a saturated ground, and that apple considered this acceptable because most users will just be listening to mp3s, or playing casual crap on Facebook, and not taxing the system this way, making the issue statistically ignorable.
The way you deal with signal bleed on a device that cannot be earth grounded is to have a very large conductor inside that serves as a floating ground. Usually this is sandwiched inside the PCB as a good thick copper layer. Apple wants a device that is practically lighter than air, and thin as a straight razor. Copper is pretty heavy, and extra layers inside the PCB add thickness. Both are things the idiots, I mean, "geniuses" in Cupertino think are trendy to do away with. As a consequence, I expect the grounding layer to be thinner than what is actually needed for the proper operation of the device at heavy load, resulting in ground saturation. When the ground saturates, coupled with a hot CPU from heavy load, the regulator pumps up the voltage to try to assure reliable signals are being generated. This adds to the problem, because now more heat is being added and the ground is already saturated, so rf noise leaks everywhere. Throw in a densely packed PCB, where lots of devices will pick up the noise, and you have a recipie for early component failure.
All the devices are working within design, but the design is poorly considered.
Rather than admit that the design is poorly considered, due to the absurdity of trying to make a high performance device that thin, I expect apple to blame users for overloading the phone instead. The noise only happens when the system is taxed, because it was designed to play on facebook, not number crunch.
I expect the engineers decided that transient loads of 100% were acceptable because it takes time to saturate the ground, and most things a user will do won't saturate the CPU like that.
For reference, most CPUs run between 1.2 and 1.5 vdc, with subtle changes up and down based on activity and temperature. This is normal, expected operation. In this case, the ground saturates when the CPU sits at 100% for a long time, and the voltage sits at 1.5v, with transient voltages from rf buildup pushing components outside that from the saturated ground.
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What's stopping you?
Many chromebooks can have a seasbios legacy boot mode installed without risk at all.
Check this out, for instance.
https://johnlewis.ie/custom-ch...
I am posting this from a Celes right now.
Failing that, you could try Crouton:
https://www.linux.com/learn/ho...
The main issue with booting real linux on a chromebook is the use of the SPI bus instead of a legacy PCI bus. This makes for serious issues with getting SDCard slots, keyboards, and mice running.
Linux can fix that by adding better support for SPI based devices in mainline, but clearly it is google's fault. (rolls eyes)
Microsoft probably offered Lenovo a "deal" on windows licensing, if they implemented an anticompetitive feature like this.
Lenovo wants to sell a windows laptop cheaper than the competition without cutting into their margins.
They shake hands, and bastardry like this is born.
Lenovo only did what it felt necessary to get ahead--- (like collude in anticompetitive practices), but microsoft is the instigator.
They are the ones with the ambition of chasing Linux out of the market.
Often, simply flashing the drive resets all the ATA options, regardless of the package.
EG, you save the existing firmware, then flash that firmware right back on the drive.
Failing that, you might be able to set the drive outside of that mode with the flash utility anyway without flashing, if no master password is set.
Hold up here.
While I agree that MS needs a good testicle stomping for this, there might be a way out of this technologically.
If I am understanding the issue correctly:
1) The drive uses a proprietary RAID encoding
2) Only windows supports this RAID config
So, options:
1) Replace the drive with an unencumbered controller, and dont boot windows. For added security, set a management password on the drive to prevent the bios from fudging with it using another system first.
2) Boot the computer into recovery mode, and start a cli console. Run the drive's firmware update utility to wipe the drive and reset its options, and once all the ata settings are reset, set a master password to keep the bios out.
If either of those two fail, (because the bios is sabotaged to force-set the drive into that mode instantly on power on, or some other shennanigans, like refusing to work with a drive that is not in that mode) THEN sue the shit out of microsoft, and Lenovo for conspiring to engage in illegal anticompetitive behavior.
Just specially tailor some cytoplasmic parasites to need cancer cells as hosts. Do to cancer what wolbachia does to insect cells.
personally, i would say cancer is much more like wallstreet fatcats.
a mutation in the rules governing proper behavior causes them to consume all available resources, send ssignals to the regulatory system that they are essential and need protection, while earnestly believing they are the most important part of the system while destroying it from the inside, due to the removal of a system to terminate that behavior early.
Unless that reprogramming is to forcibly initiate apoptosis of the cell, via protein assisted activation through binding will a known cancerous mRNA in the cytoplasm, i agree completely.
Do you have problems with contextualization?
Here, let me help you.
This september, Like the august before it, and the July before that, and the June before that..... ... ...
are all closely following the predictions of global temperature increase due to increased atmospheric CO2.
That the predictions favor the production of a practically uninhabitable planet in the next 2 centuries is pretty fucking scary.
That month after month after month has corroborated the predictions, makes the prediction pretty fucking scary.
Thank you, and good night.
and yes, oceans too.
http://www.americanscientist.o...
The clathrate gun has already fired
http://www.natureworldnews.com...
This month will be the hottest september ever recorded.
Just wait and see. ;P
Nope. Global cooling was proposed by all of 3 climate scientists, who were on the fringe.
It was amplified by the mainstream media who engineered a controversy for ratings.
For a more factual accounting of the science of the 70s, here is a nice informative link
http://www.skepticalscience.co...
And today you have unprecedented dieback of essential coral heads and reefs, whales washing up on shore in record numbers, seals and walrus having significant difficulties with their habitats, massive reductions in polar ice, the near complete disappearance of the glacier at glacier national park, severe population reductions of oceanic tuna, and a whole host of other things.
More fear mongering my good sir?
anti-nuke hysteria, fanned by the cold war and the Chernobyl disaster, and promoted in the press by pro-oil interests, resulted in the US putting a moratorium on the construction of additional nuclear power stations, and the increased buildout of coal and petroleum fired power plants.
How is acknowledging that the NIMBY movement that was so easily motivated by these factors were instrumental in the reaching of that policy decision, in any way credibility deflating?
To this very day, this group is STILL vocal against nuclear power, even demanding that funding for fusion not go forward, erroneously believing fusion energy to be polluting with long lived radioactive waste.
I was simply acknowledging the point made.
Yup, pretty much.
The best we can do now is damage control, the train has already derailed.
This is true, but at current atmospheric co2 levels, even switching to wholly green energy at this point will continue to see global temperature increases, because of the atmosphere's new thermal capacity, and inability to radiate heat away into space.
You haven't been paying attention. We don't have time, even if we just dumped money on fusion research.
The time window to turn this around has ended. Climate change is inevitable now. We had a chance to turn this around in the 70s, but blew it because climate change is a myth.
Spending money on fusion was a boondoggle, remember?
Do you think I LIKE that we are well and truly fucked, because of conspicuous consumption by idiots like you? Fuck you, no.
Enjoy the future mass extinction idiot.
Yup, and when the planet enters an iceage from increased cloud cover, I am sure all that technology will enable continued use of intensive agriculture, which needs sunlight we won't be getting because of the clouds.
Nature will decimate the human population most brutally.
But it will all be OK, because none of that will actually happen, so drill baby drill!
The second law of thermodynamics will not be wished away any time soon. Human activity requires energy. Used energy becomes heat. Human use of energy sources currently outstrips the rate that energy is sequestered in the earth's crust. Increased technology will perpetuate the need for more energy, and more energy sources.
As a species, we are confronted with a painful choice. Continue like there is no problem, destroy the biosphere, and die-- or cut back on technological and industrial advancement so that our resource consumption remains at parity with what our biosphere can handle, and maybe survive.
Those are the choices we have. Magic pixie dust where Jesus makes the earth cooler so you can keep driving an SUV is not one of the choices.
Reality doesn't give a fuck about you or anyone else. You are not being presented with an option where you get out of the consequences of conspicuous consumption. That is the point idiot.
Indeed! Now if only those damned scientists would just accept that this is fact, we can all get back to driving hummers and using incandescent lightbulb, like god intended!
The GOP, the oil industry, and The Donald ALL agree!
Stories from Nature Magazine suggesting permanent droughts in California http://www.nature.com/articles... are just fear mongering to distract you from your civic obligation to consume conspicuously and excessively!
Industry must continue to grow eternally, or the financial Apocalypse will happen!
remember, Jesus will come and fix everything, so its all good!
Very possible. We will know if it is ground saturation if the capacitative touch screen also starts acting up.
Not enough info in the article for proper diagnosis.
No, regex is appropriate because you are also dealing with message bodies, where variations in capitalization are possible.
Still a one liner from the console though.
The CPU gets hot when in use. To overcome thermal noise, the voltage on the CPU goes up a little.
There is an expected tolerance band for operation, and the control of the voltage on the CPU and ram has upper bounds for very good reasons.
I am suggesting that the normal operation of this voltage regulation under computational load results in increased bus noise due to a saturated ground, and that apple considered this acceptable because most users will just be listening to mp3s, or playing casual crap on Facebook, and not taxing the system this way, making the issue statistically ignorable.
The way you deal with signal bleed on a device that cannot be earth grounded is to have a very large conductor inside that serves as a floating ground. Usually this is sandwiched inside the PCB as a good thick copper layer. Apple wants a device that is practically lighter than air, and thin as a straight razor. Copper is pretty heavy, and extra layers inside the PCB add thickness. Both are things the idiots, I mean, "geniuses" in Cupertino think are trendy to do away with. As a consequence, I expect the grounding layer to be thinner than what is actually needed for the proper operation of the device at heavy load, resulting in ground saturation. When the ground saturates, coupled with a hot CPU from heavy load, the regulator pumps up the voltage to try to assure reliable signals are being generated. This adds to the problem, because now more heat is being added and the ground is already saturated, so rf noise leaks everywhere. Throw in a densely packed PCB, where lots of devices will pick up the noise, and you have a recipie for early component failure.
All the devices are working within design, but the design is poorly considered.
Rather than admit that the design is poorly considered, due to the absurdity of trying to make a high performance device that thin, I expect apple to blame users for overloading the phone instead. The noise only happens when the system is taxed, because it was designed to play on facebook, not number crunch.
I expect the engineers decided that transient loads of 100% were acceptable because it takes time to saturate the ground, and most things a user will do won't saturate the CPU like that.
For reference, most CPUs run between 1.2 and 1.5 vdc, with subtle changes up and down based on activity and temperature. This is normal, expected operation. In this case, the ground saturates when the CPU sits at 100% for a long time, and the voltage sits at 1.5v, with transient voltages from rf buildup pushing components outside that from the saturated ground.
Hypothetically.