Breaking into a house is a good analogy, but maybe we should better define the equivlancies...A house with walls and a door (albeit locked) clearly is not to be intruded upon without knocking, etc. This is akin to a hidden SSID or simple WEP privacy. Clearly it takes some active work to get onto this network, even if cracking the network might not be too time consuming.
WPA may be more like the locked door. Maybe it can still be bypassed, but with a lot more difficulty (or maybe not, its not my specialty =).
A completely unsecured network is more like a vacant lot without fencing or signs. There's a vacant lot next to my house. Am I a felon for standing in it and showing my 3 year old the tractor in the next field? Well, it may be theoretically illegal, but no one bothers about people crossing over vacant lots without fencing or signs.
I can easily see some non-techie take their new wireless laptop home from BB or whereever. It instantly recognizes theor neighbor's wireless router and they're cruising the web. Too bad for our non-techie that they've just commited a felony.
Even most linux users can install flash if they take the time, however you might take heart that the site might end up getting slashdotted from the interest...
I guess I trusted the original poster on this being the first IBM/Lenovo tablet.
I'll second the notion above that Thinkpads are great laptops. I have an ACER TM4205LMWi which I bought for regular use. Later, I bought an old IBM Thinkpad (T23) for messing around with Linux. I'm impressed by the Thinkpad's usability - I would rather type a paper on the Thinkpad than on my Acer!
Bryan
Full tablet PCs have been out for years by Toshiba and multiple other manufactuers. Flip-top laptops have been available from Acer, Toshiba, and others for years also.
I'm sure that flip-top laptops will become more common over time, since it adds a nice touch of functionality to the computer.
This news of IBM's entrance to this market is more noteworthy for its tardiness...
Now that we are drifting off topic so early, I thought Star Troopers was horrible the first time...but now I think it's downright hilarious. It's a grade 'a' B movie!
I am just guessing - or being too obvious, but I had the impression that "boxen" is the plural of box - but with a Germa language twist...Ich habe meine Deutsch Klassen vegessen, (I have forgotten my German!), but I believe with all the Germans in Linux (Klaus Knopper , Linux Tag (day)), this is a tip o' the hat to our German Linux compatriots.
Bryan
I rip all my Audio Digests (http://www.audiodigest.com/) to ogg vorbis and play them through my Dell Axim with GSPLayer. Why spend the extra MB on mp3 or rip with the B-man's player?
No flames on the Winodows device - I can't convince UpToDate (http://www.uptodate.com/) to make a Palm version...
martalli
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Breaking into a house is a good analogy, but maybe we should better define the equivlancies...A house with walls and a door (albeit locked) clearly is not to be intruded upon without knocking, etc. This is akin to a hidden SSID or simple WEP privacy. Clearly it takes some active work to get onto this network, even if cracking the network might not be too time consuming.
WPA may be more like the locked door. Maybe it can still be bypassed, but with a lot more difficulty (or maybe not, its not my specialty =).
A completely unsecured network is more like a vacant lot without fencing or signs. There's a vacant lot next to my house. Am I a felon for standing in it and showing my 3 year old the tractor in the next field? Well, it may be theoretically illegal, but no one bothers about people crossing over vacant lots without fencing or signs.
I can easily see some non-techie take their new wireless laptop home from BB or whereever. It instantly recognizes theor neighbor's wireless router and they're cruising the web. Too bad for our non-techie that they've just commited a felony.
Lucky for them they weren't building a stealth fighter in 2003. Think of the trouble they would be in now!
Even most linux users can install flash if they take the time, however you might take heart that the site might end up getting slashdotted from the interest...
I'll second the notion above that Thinkpads are great laptops. I have an ACER TM4205LMWi which I bought for regular use. Later, I bought an old IBM Thinkpad (T23) for messing around with Linux. I'm impressed by the Thinkpad's usability - I would rather type a paper on the Thinkpad than on my Acer! Bryan
I'm sure that flip-top laptops will become more common over time, since it adds a nice touch of functionality to the computer.
This news of IBM's entrance to this market is more noteworthy for its tardiness...
Now that we are drifting off topic so early, I thought Star Troopers was horrible the first time...but now I think it's downright hilarious. It's a grade 'a' B movie!
I am just guessing - or being too obvious, but I had the impression that "boxen" is the plural of box - but with a Germa language twist...Ich habe meine Deutsch Klassen vegessen, (I have forgotten my German!), but I believe with all the Germans in Linux (Klaus Knopper , Linux Tag (day)), this is a tip o' the hat to our German Linux compatriots. Bryan
The web page says the graphics were done with Linux software. That should warm the hearts of the /. crowd.
I rip all my Audio Digests (http://www.audiodigest.com/) to ogg vorbis and play them through my Dell Axim with GSPLayer. Why spend the extra MB on mp3 or rip with the B-man's player? No flames on the Winodows device - I can't convince UpToDate (http://www.uptodate.com/) to make a Palm version... martalli