There are desktop boards that support a theoretical 512GB or 768GB memory, if you go with registered ddr4. Look for the "pro" chipset, C612. Needs a Xeon E5-1xxx - the leading 1 says it works only in single CPU mode - which is about the same as an i7 anyway.
Underpowered, but for most people that would be the most powerful GPU they ever had on a PC. You need more for games but we're long past diminishing returns and with passing times you get to use uglier versions of Windows, also games are all tied to "app stores" like Steam and others so you can't sell or lend them and the store spies on you. Boring.
I can see myself upgrading to the next generation of APUs (better CPU, ddr4 support, supported by the new free driver + non-free blob architecture for linux) and after that there would be no need to upgrade ever.
Or wipe the partition table and install a linux desktop OS : updates are quick and don't require a reboot, even if you use a HDD. Believe me, you don't need an SSD if you don't run a huge Windows Vista-like OS and an antivirus (MS renamed Windows NT 6.4 to 10.0 to cover it up)
Neutrinos are particular with mass that go slower than light, although the mass is like 0.000000(...)00001 and the speed like 99.999999(...)9 % the speed of light.
So I don't think they do anything funny ; neutrinos merely go faster than light when that light goes through a non-vacuum medium, like beta radiation that makes a nuclear reactor glow blue in the swimming pool.
If you ever have been stuck waiting for an e-cig battery to charge for an hour or more at 500mA USB, you might want something like this. Although USB type C might be needed, perhaps not strictly but it would be a good hint that the "Power Delivery" specification be supported. Or doing without, and simply using 3 amps at 5 volts it would be quite good already.
I'm seeing modern systems where you scan items, maybe punch in amounts, with a display that has a single or a couple lines of text, that prints out a paper tape (thermal paper) but there is a color flat panel display and some Windows XP running underneath too.
"So yeah, for those who don't read a EULA and "have nothing to hide", a lower initial purchase price over a TV + Roku + cable, a single remote for most functions, and fewer wires to run are all things that are deemed positive selling points for TVs, much more so than buying one that avoids a questionable practice on page 29 of a legal document that no one has ever read."
I don't think the average people knows that the new TV spies on them, so I'm not sure "nothing to hide" is at play there. Hell, TV over DSL and perhaps cable (since it's now digital and data goes both ways) likely already is reporting everything watched - the ISP's set top box plugged on the TV does it - but I guess the awareness is low and we would need a comprehensive survey to know what it is.
Smart TV is like a smartphone in the TV : there's likely higher awareness that smartphone spies on you, but while for geeks/nerds this immediately translates to what happens with the smart TV, the average consumer might not do that equivalence.
In other words LXDE's design goal is that all its components are desktop independent, barring a general dependency on gtk2. The other aspect is old school optimization for low footprint, so you can run it on a computer from the late 90s or the worst raspberry pi.
There is LXQt now too, would a Qt environment be preferred or desirable in some way, although it's more in 0.x territory and I don't know much about its terminal emulator, called qterminal. (LXDE and Razor-Qt had a baby, it's LXQt! LXDE is alive and Razor-Qt is defunct, but living in LXQt now..)
LXQt 0.10 just got released, I've just seen it.
Even the file manager is lean enough so you can install it on a headless box and use it with ssh -X (pcmanfm, possibly pcmanfm-qt version)
I use mate-terminal, it might depend on renamed Gnome 2.x crap but it doesn't depend on Gnome 3! I have to admit I use Mate, but even then I'd possibly waste all those kilobytes to run it.. although lxterm is very similar and thus I feel at home with it too.
Same thing about file managers with pcmanfm and caja, both are awesome although the difference is bigger (pcmanfm faster and leaner, great for saving horizontal pixels ; caja slower and prettier, slightly more featured).
No, Obama took credit for the US troops pulling out of Iraq even though it was negociated by the Bush administration in 2008. The situation was a disaster years before that because the US tried to occupy the country with half the needed troops.
There will be a version that MAYBE does not include the shit, called Windows Server 2016. Pay version, sure : a $800 OS to install on a $400 PC is something you dearly pay for.
What if you wired-ethernet to a router or proxy that uses a 4G or satellite connection? Or use a VM? In principle you ought to be able to declare any connection as a metered one.
In Windows XP days too it was easier already to install the warez edition over a legit one so you 1. get rid of OEM crapware and 2. have a more sensible partition scheme. 3. recovery CD/DVD are not shipped with the laptop or desktop. Blank media is expensive when the price includes a tax to the local RIAA equivalent.
Meanwhile, I bet it still doesn't come with Metro versions of notepad, the terminal emulator and Paint? What's good is Metro if there isn't even an accessory to view and edit.txt files? It's not a replacement for even Windows 3.0.
Motherboards with ISA slots never stopped being available, you can get one with socket 1150 for instance (Haswell processors).
I am wondering if that uses a PCI (or PCIe) to ISA bridge, or is it still using the ISA bus directly? The Low Pin Count bus is ISA compatible (but runs at 33.32MHz on fewer pins), gives real parallel, serial, PS/2, real time clock etc. on even the very latest hardware. Perhaps some simple added circuitry allows to derive a couple ISA slots from it, not exposing a bridge to the hardware and OS in the process.
But have you seen the "modern" preferences page and crash recovery page? They look ridiculously oversized, non native and flat. For preferences you can get used to it, no big problem. Although it is still a mixed GUI : some buttons spawn normal windows.
For the "crash recovery" / "tab recovery" page (whatever it's called it says like "sorry we've crashed, do you want to restore the tabs below") the result is unacceptable because pages to restore are displayed one per line, but the GUI is so oversized that only four lines are displayed and that's the GUI to restore/discard/check a hundred tabs on more. That's on 768 high displays. Perhaps it's optimised for new laptops, those with a 1080p resolution on too small a panel : good for those people not so much for people who don't have or want a new computer or a display with 140 to 160 ppi. But imagine a spreadsheet where cells are so big that only four lines are displayed, or a word processor that displays four lines of text. In fact the former "recovery" GUI was hard enough to use because there was already some padding. The other problem is you can access that GUI though accidental or deliberate crashing, but I would like such tab trimming without having to kill -9 the poor browser.
I remember jumping through many hoops for running xmms on debian lenny. On this same machine installing the nvidia proprietary driver for an old card (geforce 2MX or TNT2 M64) was as much involved (just to get basic graphics a bit faster and more CPU efficient). And likely, this would fail on the next major distro release but it did work. Sadly using xmms was pointless because of 1990s-like issues with "illegal" or russian characters, and lack of support for file formats.
Nope, it will be half the cost : $200 for the TV and $200 for the mini PC, or $300 for TV and $300 for PC, or $400 and $150.. but the TV can play stuff on its own, even "non-smart" are somehow smart enough to play divx and h264 from USB drives. So a non-smart TV is smart already, "smart" means wifi or network and is a small incremental cost ergo the cheap TVs will likely have the features.
If that ever happens you change the thermal paste : wipe the old one and put like 10 cents worth of new one. You can also undervolt and/or underclock it. If the motherboard doesn't fail this should be usable or useful for way more than 10 years.
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There are desktop boards that support a theoretical 512GB or 768GB memory, if you go with registered ddr4.
Look for the "pro" chipset, C612.
Needs a Xeon E5-1xxx - the leading 1 says it works only in single CPU mode - which is about the same as an i7 anyway.
Underpowered, but for most people that would be the most powerful GPU they ever had on a PC.
You need more for games but we're long past diminishing returns and with passing times you get to use uglier versions of Windows, also games are all tied to "app stores" like Steam and others so you can't sell or lend them and the store spies on you. Boring.
I can see myself upgrading to the next generation of APUs (better CPU, ddr4 support, supported by the new free driver + non-free blob architecture for linux) and after that there would be no need to upgrade ever.
Or wipe the partition table and install a linux desktop OS : updates are quick and don't require a reboot, even if you use a HDD.
Believe me, you don't need an SSD if you don't run a huge Windows Vista-like OS and an antivirus (MS renamed Windows NT 6.4 to 10.0 to cover it up)
Neutrinos are particular with mass that go slower than light, although the mass is like 0.000000(...)00001 and the speed like 99.999999(...)9 % the speed of light.
So I don't think they do anything funny ; neutrinos merely go faster than light when that light goes through a non-vacuum medium, like beta radiation that makes a nuclear reactor glow blue in the swimming pool.
If you ever have been stuck waiting for an e-cig battery to charge for an hour or more at 500mA USB, you might want something like this.
Although USB type C might be needed, perhaps not strictly but it would be a good hint that the "Power Delivery" specification be supported. Or doing without, and simply using 3 amps at 5 volts it would be quite good already.
I'm seeing modern systems where you scan items, maybe punch in amounts, with a display that has a single or a couple lines of text, that prints out a paper tape (thermal paper) but there is a color flat panel display and some Windows XP running underneath too.
"So yeah, for those who don't read a EULA and "have nothing to hide", a lower initial purchase price over a TV + Roku + cable, a single remote for most functions, and fewer wires to run are all things that are deemed positive selling points for TVs, much more so than buying one that avoids a questionable practice on page 29 of a legal document that no one has ever read."
I don't think the average people knows that the new TV spies on them, so I'm not sure "nothing to hide" is at play there. Hell, TV over DSL and perhaps cable (since it's now digital and data goes both ways) likely already is reporting everything watched - the ISP's set top box plugged on the TV does it - but I guess the awareness is low and we would need a comprehensive survey to know what it is.
Smart TV is like a smartphone in the TV : there's likely higher awareness that smartphone spies on you, but while for geeks/nerds this immediately translates to what happens with the smart TV, the average consumer might not do that equivalence.
Shit, you're going to have me break my page down key.
So what you want is GNU screen?
That is "detached", or "attached" and works with a serial port too.
native (non-graphical) console for Linux,
It is a terminal emulator and runs on what is called the framebuffer console.
In other words LXDE's design goal is that all its components are desktop independent, barring a general dependency on gtk2. The other aspect is old school optimization for low footprint, so you can run it on a computer from the late 90s or the worst raspberry pi.
There is LXQt now too, would a Qt environment be preferred or desirable in some way, although it's more in 0.x territory and I don't know much about its terminal emulator, called qterminal. (LXDE and Razor-Qt had a baby, it's LXQt! LXDE is alive and Razor-Qt is defunct, but living in LXQt now..)
LXQt 0.10 just got released, I've just seen it.
Even the file manager is lean enough so you can install it on a headless box and use it with ssh -X (pcmanfm, possibly pcmanfm-qt version)
I use mate-terminal, it might depend on renamed Gnome 2.x crap but it doesn't depend on Gnome 3!
I have to admit I use Mate, but even then I'd possibly waste all those kilobytes to run it.. although lxterm is very similar and thus I feel at home with it too.
Same thing about file managers with pcmanfm and caja, both are awesome although the difference is bigger (pcmanfm faster and leaner, great for saving horizontal pixels ; caja slower and prettier, slightly more featured).
No, Obama took credit for the US troops pulling out of Iraq even though it was negociated by the Bush administration in 2008. The situation was a disaster years before that because the US tried to occupy the country with half the needed troops.
There will be a version that MAYBE does not include the shit, called Windows Server 2016.
Pay version, sure : a $800 OS to install on a $400 PC is something you dearly pay for.
What if you wired-ethernet to a router or proxy that uses a 4G or satellite connection? Or use a VM? In principle you ought to be able to declare any connection as a metered one.
In Windows XP days too it was easier already to install the warez edition over a legit one so you 1. get rid of OEM crapware and 2. have a more sensible partition scheme. 3. recovery CD/DVD are not shipped with the laptop or desktop. Blank media is expensive when the price includes a tax to the local RIAA equivalent.
Meanwhile, I bet it still doesn't come with Metro versions of notepad, the terminal emulator and Paint? What's good is Metro if there isn't even an accessory to view and edit .txt files? It's not a replacement for even Windows 3.0.
Windows ME requires 32MB, 64MB recommended. So it sounds possible.
Motherboards with ISA slots never stopped being available, you can get one with socket 1150 for instance (Haswell processors).
I am wondering if that uses a PCI (or PCIe) to ISA bridge, or is it still using the ISA bus directly?
The Low Pin Count bus is ISA compatible (but runs at 33.32MHz on fewer pins), gives real parallel, serial, PS/2, real time clock etc. on even the very latest hardware. Perhaps some simple added circuitry allows to derive a couple ISA slots from it, not exposing a bridge to the hardware and OS in the process.
But have you seen the "modern" preferences page and crash recovery page? They look ridiculously oversized, non native and flat.
For preferences you can get used to it, no big problem. Although it is still a mixed GUI : some buttons spawn normal windows.
For the "crash recovery" / "tab recovery" page (whatever it's called it says like "sorry we've crashed, do you want to restore the tabs below") the result is unacceptable because pages to restore are displayed one per line, but the GUI is so oversized that only four lines are displayed and that's the GUI to restore/discard/check a hundred tabs on more. That's on 768 high displays. Perhaps it's optimised for new laptops, those with a 1080p resolution on too small a panel : good for those people not so much for people who don't have or want a new computer or a display with 140 to 160 ppi.
But imagine a spreadsheet where cells are so big that only four lines are displayed, or a word processor that displays four lines of text. In fact the former "recovery" GUI was hard enough to use because there was already some padding. The other problem is you can access that GUI though accidental or deliberate crashing, but I would like such tab trimming without having to kill -9 the poor browser.
I really have just got a deep and inspiring statement by clicking on "More bullshit, please!" once.
- The key to broader thinking is focus.
Wow. Oxymoron or breath-taking truth?
I loved the icon in Windows 3.1 but the program didn't seem to actually do anything at all.
I remember jumping through many hoops for running xmms on debian lenny. On this same machine installing the nvidia proprietary driver for an old card (geforce 2MX or TNT2 M64) was as much involved (just to get basic graphics a bit faster and more CPU efficient).
And likely, this would fail on the next major distro release but it did work. Sadly using xmms was pointless because of 1990s-like issues with "illegal" or russian characters, and lack of support for file formats.
I have a show from the 90s on the HDD that's 23 minutes long too, 23:22.
Nope, it will be half the cost : $200 for the TV and $200 for the mini PC, or $300 for TV and $300 for PC, or $400 and $150.. but the TV can play stuff on its own, even "non-smart" are somehow smart enough to play divx and h264 from USB drives. So a non-smart TV is smart already, "smart" means wifi or network and is a small incremental cost ergo the cheap TVs will likely have the features.
If that ever happens you change the thermal paste : wipe the old one and put like 10 cents worth of new one.
You can also undervolt and/or underclock it.
If the motherboard doesn't fail this should be usable or useful for way more than 10 years.