Just a couple of small corrections: First, Rockbox is not Linux.
Second, in some cases hardware manufacturers have worked with the Rockbox team (I'm thinking specifically of AustriaMicroSystems here, but others have too to various degrees.)
They want to help bring Britain back to the forefront of computer technology again (they have mentioned this on their website, but it's not the Foundations main goal.)
The main way they are planning to do this is by being an enabling technology for teaching children programming, but bolstering the manufacturing industry was a part of what they wanted to do. Manufacturing as an industry isn't failing as can be seen by the Far East, but in the UK it is in trouble and the Foundation was hoping to help.
I'm a Linux guy, but if I needed to add an intranet server in a small shop I would probably do it on whatever existing machine was easiest.
In a lot of cases this will mean the Windows file server which has been in place for years, and installing IIS would be the path of least resistance.
I want a bunch of them, I've got several ideas already.
Personally I want one to make into a software defined radio transceiver (hopefully there will be an API to the DSP to do the heavy lifting on this,) I want one to use as a browser in the kitchen for looking at recipes while cooking, and I want one to have on my desk at work as a syslog display machine. To do the first without using a Pi, I'd need to do an awful lot of embedded development myself whereas here a lot of the work has been done already. The recipe browser would be ideal with a cheap tablet (cheap because I'm expecting to spill things on it,) but I've already got spare monitors knocking around so a Pi will be even cheaper. And the Pi is a lot smaller and quieter than a general purpose desktop. The syslog display I currently do on my laptop on a separate monitor, but it would just be easier if it were on a separate machine. £15 is a price that can easily be justified.
The market it's supposed to address is education, mainly for programming. It's designed so that kids can mess about with it, install what they want on it and not break the family's computer. It's designed so that kids can have one each instead of having to share one of the school's lab machines. It's designed so that the kids can do work at school and take that work home with them. It's designed to be very difficult to brick, but if it does get broken then the cost of replacing it is not too much.
That's a mantra that people keep trotting out... but when I went from point'n'click to an entry level SLR the difference in picture quality was huge.
A great photographer can take great pictures with any camera. A poor photographer won't take better pictures with £5000 worth of equipment than they do with £500 worth. But for a beginner photographer, the difference between a camera phone and a reasonable camera is astounding.
It's not just bouncing signals off the ionosphere.
Earth-Moon-Earth (bouncing signals off the moon) is really common. Just for the challenge, people have also done Earth-Venus-Earth and Earth-Sun-Earth. That's more than thousands of miles!
QRM is amateur-speak for "interference." Because it takes a while to send anything in Morse, a lot of things have "Q codes" which amateurs use regularly.
You do have to study, but you can get decent equipment fairly cheaply if you're prepared to build it yourself.
A Softrock RXTX software defined radio transceiver is under $100, which isn't bad for an all mode radio. A morse-only transceiver would probably set you back $20 or so.
Geeky hobbies rule!
I generally wouldn't go that far unless I had several disks. If I've only got one disk then it gets/,/boot and swap.
Why?
I've only ever hosed partitions when I've done something stupid, and I do my best to avoid doing stupid things on mission critical machines.
On the other hand, entire disks do fail and no partitioning scheme in the world will help that if you've only got 1 disk.
The thing is, there are a whole bunch of people around the world who think that this is government conspiracy to cause those thousands of easily prevented deaths. Yes, it was deliberate screwing up. No, it wasn't government conspiracy, it was just humans being short-sited idiots. We as a race are pretty good at that.
I'm confident that at some point Einstein's theories will be shown to be inaccurate (not wrong, just not accurate.) Maybe not in my lifetime, but one day, just the same as Newton before him was inaccurate. The experiments at CERN are things which had not been dreamed of when Einstein was formulating his theories and just because what he says has been shown to match our observations for 100 years does not mean that it will be the case forever.
That is science: an evolving model of what is around us, refined over time but forever incomplete.
No, African-American is the politically correct way to say black all over the world, didn't you know. Except in most countries it's Non-American African-American.
I hate to point this out to you, but 80% of the kernel is written by programmers acting in a professional capacity (source: http://lwn.net/Articles/450891/)
The admins of kernel.org deserve exactly as much bashing as the admins of microsoft.com would do if it had happened to them.
It's unlikely to pollute the evidence in the NoTW case - but since Rebekah Brooks became editor of The Sun after being at News Of The World it's likely to pollute evidence which will be useful in the enquiry into media ethics and possible criminal investigations, should The Sun have been doing anything dodgy.
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Just a couple of small corrections: First, Rockbox is not Linux. Second, in some cases hardware manufacturers have worked with the Rockbox team (I'm thinking specifically of AustriaMicroSystems here, but others have too to various degrees.)
They want to help bring Britain back to the forefront of computer technology again (they have mentioned this on their website, but it's not the Foundations main goal.)
The main way they are planning to do this is by being an enabling technology for teaching children programming, but bolstering the manufacturing industry was a part of what they wanted to do. Manufacturing as an industry isn't failing as can be seen by the Far East, but in the UK it is in trouble and the Foundation was hoping to help.
I'm a Linux guy, but if I needed to add an intranet server in a small shop I would probably do it on whatever existing machine was easiest. In a lot of cases this will mean the Windows file server which has been in place for years, and installing IIS would be the path of least resistance.
Oops, sorry for the formatting.
IIUC, the connectors are where they are to keep the size to a minimum while having as few PCB layers as possible.
I want a bunch of them, I've got several ideas already. Personally I want one to make into a software defined radio transceiver (hopefully there will be an API to the DSP to do the heavy lifting on this,) I want one to use as a browser in the kitchen for looking at recipes while cooking, and I want one to have on my desk at work as a syslog display machine. To do the first without using a Pi, I'd need to do an awful lot of embedded development myself whereas here a lot of the work has been done already. The recipe browser would be ideal with a cheap tablet (cheap because I'm expecting to spill things on it,) but I've already got spare monitors knocking around so a Pi will be even cheaper. And the Pi is a lot smaller and quieter than a general purpose desktop. The syslog display I currently do on my laptop on a separate monitor, but it would just be easier if it were on a separate machine. £15 is a price that can easily be justified. The market it's supposed to address is education, mainly for programming. It's designed so that kids can mess about with it, install what they want on it and not break the family's computer. It's designed so that kids can have one each instead of having to share one of the school's lab machines. It's designed so that the kids can do work at school and take that work home with them. It's designed to be very difficult to brick, but if it does get broken then the cost of replacing it is not too much.
Best. Comment. Ever.
Erm... Britain doesn't have a Muslim president. Or a president, come to that.
That's a mantra that people keep trotting out... but when I went from point'n'click to an entry level SLR the difference in picture quality was huge. A great photographer can take great pictures with any camera. A poor photographer won't take better pictures with £5000 worth of equipment than they do with £500 worth. But for a beginner photographer, the difference between a camera phone and a reasonable camera is astounding.
It's not just bouncing signals off the ionosphere. Earth-Moon-Earth (bouncing signals off the moon) is really common. Just for the challenge, people have also done Earth-Venus-Earth and Earth-Sun-Earth. That's more than thousands of miles!
QRM is amateur-speak for "interference." Because it takes a while to send anything in Morse, a lot of things have "Q codes" which amateurs use regularly.
You do have to study, but you can get decent equipment fairly cheaply if you're prepared to build it yourself. A Softrock RXTX software defined radio transceiver is under $100, which isn't bad for an all mode radio. A morse-only transceiver would probably set you back $20 or so. Geeky hobbies rule!
Whooosh!
Is that .nl or .nl.ca?
I generally wouldn't go that far unless I had several disks. If I've only got one disk then it gets /, /boot and swap.
Why?
I've only ever hosed partitions when I've done something stupid, and I do my best to avoid doing stupid things on mission critical machines.
On the other hand, entire disks do fail and no partitioning scheme in the world will help that if you've only got 1 disk.
It's sad that it's taken so long for this to hit the frontpage. His effect on the whole ecosystem of computing is huge and will last for decades. RIP
The thing is, there are a whole bunch of people around the world who think that this is government conspiracy to cause those thousands of easily prevented deaths. Yes, it was deliberate screwing up. No, it wasn't government conspiracy, it was just humans being short-sited idiots. We as a race are pretty good at that.
I'm confident that at some point Einstein's theories will be shown to be inaccurate (not wrong, just not accurate.) Maybe not in my lifetime, but one day, just the same as Newton before him was inaccurate. The experiments at CERN are things which had not been dreamed of when Einstein was formulating his theories and just because what he says has been shown to match our observations for 100 years does not mean that it will be the case forever. That is science: an evolving model of what is around us, refined over time but forever incomplete.
Has Linus changed his mind in the last week? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/27628
No, African-American is the politically correct way to say black all over the world, didn't you know. Except in most countries it's Non-American African-American.
I hate to point this out to you, but 80% of the kernel is written by programmers acting in a professional capacity (source: http://lwn.net/Articles/450891/) The admins of kernel.org deserve exactly as much bashing as the admins of microsoft.com would do if it had happened to them.
I'll admit it's a prejudice, but the later twin is almost always evil.
You mean... Big Oil's evil twin?!
It's unlikely to pollute the evidence in the NoTW case - but since Rebekah Brooks became editor of The Sun after being at News Of The World it's likely to pollute evidence which will be useful in the enquiry into media ethics and possible criminal investigations, should The Sun have been doing anything dodgy.
How about the songs that were hits but *don't* match the formula? Are you looking into those at all to see what's special about those?