I've been running a mini server on a VIA mainboard (C3 533) for years now (started I think in 2003). Last year I upgraded to a VIA C7 because I happened to have one laying around and I wanted to start using a SATA hard drive. A few things to take into account: - the hard drive is usually the real power drain. 2.5 inch models are much more power efficient - spent money on an efficient powersupply!
As for the power usage, I suspect you get the best results if you run it from a USB stick and add a harddrive for storage that you keep spinned down for most of the time. I.e. keep the active torrents and such on the USB drive and move the files to the large disk to store them when they are no longer active. Laptopmodetools will power the drive down for you.
On the C3 I used gentoo but I switched to Ubuntu server along with the switch to the C7.
Via offers quite a few fanless mainboards. That seems nice and quiet. Unfortenately most cases use small and therefor noisy fans. I ended up cutting a big hole in my case and put a 12cm fan on there (with an added anti dust filter). Now you can hardly hear it. I still aim to test if I can safely work without a fan when I separate the harddrive fully from the case. Both the mainboard and the drive should be able to work without a fan, but if you put them both in a case, the temperature gets to hot for the CPU.
The banks should distribute a locked down version themselves. Then they can even build in extra authentication in the browser and minimise other programms with possible weaknesses
Bank should put out custom live cd's which will only allow the browser to access their site. They could even, based on Firefox, put a custom browser on the live cd and put build some extra validation in there.
Then everyone with a PC that you can boot and a network with an internet connection has his or hers locked down pc
Maybe they can see if the missing tapes are there. Apparently they've searched all over earth and they're not here. So they must have been left behind....
It is funny that people assume that open source means more secure. It means more potential for security, since you can undertake an enormous, in-depth code review, but given the amount of code in some projects (the Linux kernel, Apache, etc.), that is not something that is likely to happen. It is not terribly difficult to hide a defect in some code -- a cool example of this is the Underhanded C Coding Contest, where the goal is to introduce a vulnerability in such a way that reading through the source does not give an obvious indication of what happened. (snipped the rest)
While I basically agree that it really means more potential for security you miss one point: human nature. With open source developers know some people will look at their code. And that means that they will make cleaner code. No matter how good of a developer you are, the awareness that someone else will look at it will make most developers take another look before releasing and make sure the code doesn't have embarrassing parts. So even if no-one actually really audits or checks your code, the fear of having to admit that there is some dumb or ugly code in there, often will make the code a bit better.
But if you don't have a mouse when you're using vi, what will you throw when you realize you just destroyed your file because you were in the wrong "mode?"
You mentioned that you may want to dig into webdevelopment/databases. Why not get involved with an open source web content management system. I follow the development of http://www.wegbgui.org/ I have noticed quite a few times that people that start out just using it and later develop for it, don't just learn a lot, but often get hired later on to work on or with this. And if you learn that this not your cup of tea, you found that in your own time.
Other open source CMS projects may have the same effect. In my view though, WebGUI has high quality code. There is more of a learning curve before you get code accepted , but you will also learn much more. Not just about software development, but also if software development is really something for you
I'm afraid it is not my system! I was involved very early on in the beginning. I created the (fully working) proof of concept. But after that I was no longer involved. And knowing the guys that went on with this, I'm not that convinced that they care about your comments;-)
I have been thinking about creating something similar though recently. There is a lot of cool hardware available now (think monitors with built in computers (Atom). And I probably have someone available (I've got a small company) in july that could build something similar fairly quickly. And released open source it would probably get much more use as well.
Users probably don't get portage. I assume they use an image approach. Have a build system (fully writable), update until satisfied and then create a new image based on the updated system. I would use a read-only squasfs probably. Users would just get the new image.
The users are unlikely to see any of the internals of the system.
Actuall a PC system (http://simpc.nl/) created especially for the elderly is based on Linux (Gentoo to be precise). That little device has a UI that is kept very simple and foolproof. Read only system, just some user files locally and remote (synced)
Same concept can easily be used for six year olds. I believe in this way Linux is even more suited for the 6 and 96 year old.
bail outs are not equal to spending. They are mostly low interest loans as well as guarantees on loans.
Comparing 87 billion in spending with 3000 billion in bail outs is a bullshit comparison. Unless you are convinced that all the bail out companies will go bankrupt after all and none of the loans actually are paid back. And also all the guaranteed loans end up being total write offs.
This will still cost taxpayers a lot, but not 3000 billion.
I blog on blogspot to create prior art. My ideas are likely not feasible. But I would just hate it if I find out later that someone else thought of it and patented it. Then at least I can claim prior art. On blogspot you have a clear date etc.
Only thing I wonder about is the fact that I can edit old blogs. If it would actually come to a law suit it might be that I would have to ask blogspot for evidence that a certain blog was not altered after a certain date.
I disagree on your last con - If you get an SSD netbook this is the case, but you can store quite a few movies on a 160GB hard drive if you get one of the $300-400 HD versions. (As opposed to the $200-300 SSD ones)
I got one of those 12 GB Asus 901s, I even kept Windows in dual boot available. But my battery always runs out faster than my torrents. The battery lasts over 6 hours! Just get a cheap 8gb SDHC cards. Put the files on there. That doesn't fit the entire collection, but I don't need to carry them with me all the time. Just what I anticipate watching in the train
Also, why did you go with an Eee Ubuntu and not Xubuntu... which I guess would be more widely supported?
Actually I did on my 901. That went perfect. I followed the very simple instructions at http://www.array.org/ubuntu/ It took the installation of one.deb, a reboot and wireless, sound, bluetooth and wifi were all working. Afterwards just added the array.orgs repository, installed the extra scripts through that repository and even the Fn keys and special keys in the laptop worked perfectly.
This weekend I however installed the eeepc version of http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/release-notes/8.10.02#cruncheee_eee_pc_edition To me that's even better. Everything works out of the box and you can use the Ubuntu repositories for nearly everything you may want to install later. It responds really well. I even watch divx in the train, with the eeepc on powersave mode. They do use openbox which I have quite some experience in and really like. But if you like Vista you probably don't like openbox. Only downside to me is the interface, which in my view is a little to dark.
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I've been running a mini server on a VIA mainboard (C3 533) for years now (started I think in 2003). Last year I upgraded to a VIA C7 because I happened to have one laying around and I wanted to start using a SATA hard drive. A few things to take into account:
- the hard drive is usually the real power drain. 2.5 inch models are much more power efficient
- spent money on an efficient powersupply!
As for the power usage, I suspect you get the best results if you run it from a USB stick and add a harddrive for storage that you keep spinned down for most of the time. I.e. keep the active torrents and such on the USB drive and move the files to the large disk to store them when they are no longer active. Laptopmodetools will power the drive down for you.
On the C3 I used gentoo but I switched to Ubuntu server along with the switch to the C7.
Via offers quite a few fanless mainboards. That seems nice and quiet. Unfortenately most cases use small and therefor noisy fans. I ended up cutting a big hole in my case and put a 12cm fan on there (with an added anti dust filter). Now you can hardly hear it. I still aim to test if I can safely work without a fan when I separate the harddrive fully from the case. Both the mainboard and the drive should be able to work without a fan, but if you put them both in a case, the temperature gets to hot for the CPU.
Like I suggested in August: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1347481&cid=29198657&art_pos=4
The banks should distribute a locked down version themselves. Then they can even build in extra authentication in the browser and minimise other programms with possible weaknesses
we are just empathic
Should have covered the Beagle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2 ) in that stuff
Bank should put out custom live cd's which will only allow the browser to access their site. They could even, based on Firefox, put a custom browser on the live cd and put build some extra validation in there.
Then everyone with a PC that you can boot and a network with an internet connection has his or hers locked down pc
Maybe they can see if the missing tapes are there. Apparently they've searched all over earth and they're not here. So they must have been left behind....
It is funny that people assume that open source means more secure. It means more potential for security, since you can undertake an enormous, in-depth code review, but given the amount of code in some projects (the Linux kernel, Apache, etc.), that is not something that is likely to happen. It is not terribly difficult to hide a defect in some code -- a cool example of this is the Underhanded C Coding Contest, where the goal is to introduce a vulnerability in such a way that reading through the source does not give an obvious indication of what happened. (snipped the rest)
While I basically agree that it really means more potential for security you miss one point: human nature. With open source developers know some people will look at their code. And that means that they will make cleaner code. No matter how good of a developer you are, the awareness that someone else will look at it will make most developers take another look before releasing and make sure the code doesn't have embarrassing parts.
So even if no-one actually really audits or checks your code, the fear of having to admit that there is some dumb or ugly code in there, often will make the code a bit better.
But if you don't have a mouse when you're using vi, what will you throw when you realize you just destroyed your file because you were in the wrong "mode?"
chairs of course, what else?
??? is probably "GOTO 1"
Then you'll never get to the profit part ...
Me too. I'm waiting for the obligatory "The 1980s called and they want their language back" jokes. :o)
Even the 1980's don't want that language back
that should of course be http://www.webgui.org./
You mentioned that you may want to dig into webdevelopment/databases. Why not get involved with an open source web content management system. I follow the development of http://www.wegbgui.org/ I have noticed quite a few times that people that start out just using it and later develop for it, don't just learn a lot, but often get hired later on to work on or with this. And if you learn that this not your cup of tea, you found that in your own time.
Other open source CMS projects may have the same effect. In my view though, WebGUI has high quality code. There is more of a learning curve before you get code accepted , but you will also learn much more. Not just about software development, but also if software development is really something for you
I'm afraid it is not my system! I was involved very early on in the beginning. I created the (fully working) proof of concept. But after that I was no longer involved. And knowing the guys that went on with this, I'm not that convinced that they care about your comments ;-)
I have been thinking about creating something similar though recently. There is a lot of cool hardware available now (think monitors with built in computers (Atom). And I probably have someone available (I've got a small company) in july that could build something similar fairly quickly. And released open source it would probably get much more use as well.
Users probably don't get portage. I assume they use an image approach. Have a build system (fully writable), update until satisfied and then create a new image based on the updated system. I would use a read-only squasfs probably.
Users would just get the new image.
The users are unlikely to see any of the internals of the system.
Actuall a PC system (http://simpc.nl/) created especially for the elderly is based on Linux (Gentoo to be precise). That little device has a UI that is kept very simple and foolproof. Read only system, just some user files locally and remote (synced)
Same concept can easily be used for six year olds. I believe in this way Linux is even more suited for the 6 and 96 year old.
My girlfriend told me i got herpies from using her laptop
She meant from her lap..
bail outs are not equal to spending. They are mostly low interest loans as well as guarantees on loans.
Comparing 87 billion in spending with 3000 billion in bail outs is a bullshit comparison. Unless you are convinced that all the bail out companies will go bankrupt after all and none of the loans actually are paid back. And also all the guaranteed loans end up being total write offs.
This will still cost taxpayers a lot, but not 3000 billion.
I blog on blogspot to create prior art. My ideas are likely not feasible. But I would just hate it if I find out later that someone else thought of it and patented it. Then at least I can claim prior art. On blogspot you have a clear date etc.
Only thing I wonder about is the fact that I can edit old blogs. If it would actually come to a law suit it might be that I would have to ask blogspot for evidence that a certain blog was not altered after a certain date.
rob@thinkpad:~$ man pussy
No manual entry for pussy
have you tried entering automatically?
Of course, the younger generation is getting older. So it's getting more and more common to see older programmers
You'll know we've reached that significant threshold when you start seeing artificial hip technology advertised on ThinkGeek.
Do they have them already with Bluetooth? Or at least some led-lights?
I'd always thought it'd be a cute commercial to see Shrek walking along having a conversation with the Donkey about Linux.
Like the year of the Linux on the desktop... Are we there yet?
I disagree on your last con - If you get an SSD netbook this is the case, but you can store quite a few movies on a 160GB hard drive if you get one of the $300-400 HD versions. (As opposed to the $200-300 SSD ones)
I got one of those 12 GB Asus 901s, I even kept Windows in dual boot available. But my battery always runs out faster than my torrents. The battery lasts over 6 hours!
Just get a cheap 8gb SDHC cards. Put the files on there.
That doesn't fit the entire collection, but I don't need to carry them with me all the time. Just what I anticipate watching in the train
Also, why did you go with an Eee Ubuntu and not Xubuntu ... which I guess would be more widely supported?
Actually I did on my 901. That went perfect. I followed the very simple instructions at http://www.array.org/ubuntu/ It took the installation of one .deb, a reboot and wireless, sound, bluetooth and wifi were all working. Afterwards just added the array.orgs repository, installed the extra scripts through that repository and even the Fn keys and special keys in the laptop worked perfectly.
This weekend I however installed the eeepc version of http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/release-notes/8.10.02#cruncheee_eee_pc_edition To me that's even better. Everything works out of the box and you can use the Ubuntu repositories for nearly everything you may want to install later. It responds really well. I even watch divx in the train, with the eeepc on powersave mode. They do use openbox which I have quite some experience in and really like. But if you like Vista you probably don't like openbox.
Only downside to me is the interface, which in my view is a little to dark.
Why get a replacement at all?
Just scrap the GSM phone.
When you are around the computer use voip... if not, well, people can send you an email!
And, use the free time you just got with all those useless calls to get a nice warm cup of *whatever*, and relax...
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a reason _can_ be: http://search.cpan.org/