I would love to see KISS open up their platform (I would love to be able to write my own software for the playa (think of mame or just a better user interface.))
There seem to be alternatives. I stumbled upon a Linux based set top box that seems to be just what I want for my living room: ReelBox PVR 1100. Their announcements read like they will be honouring the GPL and base the development of the product on the OSS community model. Sounds promising.
Your school's admin obviously sucks. Any public workstation that allows this kind of configuration change by a mortal (user) is badly administered indeed.
But then, it's possible that you are in fact the admin and pushed this setting to all student PCs via Group Policy after a really bad day...
An actively mantained, full featured, modular and (if neccessary) very compact Linux distribution for building routers, firewalls, gateways and the like can be found here: floppyfw.
All these PDAs are cool but they all suck in one very important way. None of them work with any email/address/calendar clients besides Outlook, Notes or Eudora.
I sync my Tungsten T daily with the KDE PIM applications.
I searched for some of my own postings and stumbled across one in which I'm asking for help with my first Linux installation in May 1992 (Kernel 0.96a). Brought tears to my eyes.
I wonder whether shipping a Linux system with VMWare pre-installed would violate Microsoft's "secret license". This would be a system that also offers booting Windows in addition to another OS, but not on startup like on a dual boot machine.
Maybe this is the way to go for computer vendors--marketing "fully Windows compatible" Linux boxes.
I also wonder what Whistler-type hardware checking would come up with in a virtual machine like VMWare. Wouldn't it "think" that it's the same PC as long as the same configuration for the VM was used? Then at least Linux users who run Whistler in VMWare wouldn't have to worry about the copy protection (or cracks for it).
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I would love to see KISS open up their platform (I would love to be able to write my own software for the playa (think of mame or just a better user interface.))
There seem to be alternatives. I stumbled upon a Linux based set top box that seems to be just what I want for my living room: ReelBox PVR 1100. Their announcements read like they will be honouring the GPL and base the development of the product on the OSS community model. Sounds promising.
Your school's admin obviously sucks. Any public workstation that allows this kind of configuration change by a mortal (user) is badly administered indeed. But then, it's possible that you are in fact the admin and pushed this setting to all student PCs via Group Policy after a really bad day...
An actively mantained, full featured, modular and (if neccessary) very compact Linux distribution for building routers, firewalls, gateways and the like can be found here: floppyfw.
All these PDAs are cool but they all suck in one very important way. None of them work with any email/address/calendar clients besides Outlook, Notes or Eudora.
I sync my Tungsten T daily with the KDE PIM applications.
I searched for some of my own postings and stumbled across one in which I'm asking for help with my first Linux installation in May 1992 (Kernel 0.96a). Brought tears to my eyes.
I wonder whether shipping a Linux system with VMWare pre-installed would violate Microsoft's "secret license". This would be a system that also offers booting Windows in addition to another OS, but not on startup like on a dual boot machine.
Maybe this is the way to go for computer vendors--marketing "fully Windows compatible" Linux boxes.
Anyone found something on planned release dates?
I also wonder what Whistler-type hardware checking would come up with in a virtual machine like VMWare. Wouldn't it "think" that it's the same PC as long as the same configuration for the VM was used? Then at least Linux users who run Whistler in VMWare wouldn't have to worry about the copy protection (or cracks for it).