While the Toughbook is a good machine. It seems like fixing it in hardware isn't a great way to go. Really good power management is a system wide trick. If you can get all your applications, deamon's, drivers and the system to be smart about their use of power, you can get by with less.
I don't belive Linux has that, but Mac OS X does.
Even servers benefit from good power management, if you conserve your power, then you need less AC in the server room.
Well, the software downloads work, but the music service sure seems to be/.'d. It seems to work for a while, then go away. Argh! It's very frustrating. I'm sure they'll fix it in a day or two.
but I can limit MAC Addresses, as well.... Sure, they can still sniff packets, and they can still break encryption, but it will be a sight harder for them to access your wired network/Internet connection.
If they've gone to the trouble to break your encryption, they will have no problem forging a fake MAC address, it's fairly trivial to do.
If no computers existed, then we'd have to reinvent the manufacturing process. Much of current knowledge relies on computers. If we still had large transistors it would make things a lot easier.
As far a programming them, right now, many of us are old enough to know how to do it with toggle switches. In 50-75 years, it's likely that the whole toggle technology would need to be reinvented.
As for what would I change, or would be likely to change. I suspect we'd be able to skip a lot of bad ideas.
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While the Toughbook is a good machine. It seems like fixing it in hardware isn't a great way to go. Really good power management is a system wide trick. If you can get all your applications, deamon's, drivers and the system to be smart about their use of power, you can get by with less. I don't belive Linux has that, but Mac OS X does. Even servers benefit from good power management, if you conserve your power, then you need less AC in the server room.
I would second this. I've been very happy with them.
Well, the software downloads work, but the music service sure seems to be /.'d. It seems to work for a while, then go away. Argh! It's very frustrating. I'm sure they'll fix it in a day or two.
Some of them do -- Unfortunatly.
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It's often thought that if you charge too little, then you won't be arround to support it. And that's very important to a business.
but I can limit MAC Addresses, as well. ... Sure, they can still sniff packets, and they can still break encryption, but it will be a sight harder for them to access your wired network/Internet connection.
If they've gone to the trouble to break your encryption, they will have no problem forging a fake MAC address, it's fairly trivial to do.
If no computers existed, then we'd have to reinvent the manufacturing process. Much of current knowledge relies on computers. If we still had large transistors it would make things a lot easier. As far a programming them, right now, many of us are old enough to know how to do it with toggle switches. In 50-75 years, it's likely that the whole toggle technology would need to be reinvented. As for what would I change, or would be likely to change. I suspect we'd be able to skip a lot of bad ideas.
Forth -- John was really into to it for a while.