In fact, the predecessor to the 2140, the 2133, packed a 1280x768 resolution into an 8.9" screen. It was awesome, although somewhat eyestrain inducing. It probably would've been better with a slightly larger screen (9.3", perhaps?). IMHO, even 10" is getting too large for it to be considered a netbook. That's the amazing thing, the 2140 was exactly the same size as the 2133 (which is approximately the same size as an EEE 900) despite the bigger screen. Unfortunately unless I want to pay an intermediary to import a refurb one from the HP US buisness outet store for me at great expense a HD mini 2140 is no longer an option for me.
So afaict (and please tell me if you know of other options with the screen resoloution I want) that leaves me with the option of it's larger (wider border making it comparable in size with the EEE 1000) sucessor the 5000 series (which afaict is about to be released here in the uk though I dunno if they will offer us the HD option or not) or the very similar machine (vaio w series) that sony is about to release.
P.S. sony also offer an 8 inch with 1600 x 768 resolution but I think that's packing the pixels in too small.
not much of a win for the consumer. I disagree, it used to be that most cheap laptops were big, usually 15 inch, occasionaly 13 inch. The large screen size combined with poor build quality meant that theese machines were pretty damn fragile. If you wanted an ultraportable you went to sony and payed through the nose or bought a secondhand toshiba with really crappy specs.
Then came the OLPC XO, it was cheap but this was tempered by the fact it was only availible though a G1G1 program (pushing up the effective price), it couldn't easilly run windows or normal linux and it had a weird screen and keyboard.
Then came the EEE 700 series which were really pretty crappy machines. They had a case big enough for a 9 inch screen but only fitted with a 7 inch, hardly any storage and a crappy old processor that they then underclocked. Still we jumped on them because they were way cheaper than previous ultraportables while still being pretty conventional machines.
Since then the gap between the first "netbooks" (I hate that term, it implies the machines are far more crippled than they really are) and regular laptops has been gradually filling and I regard this as a good thing, users can now pick there preffered tradeoff between size and functionality.
Personally I want a 10 inch with a vertical resoloution of at least 768 pixels. There was the HP mini 2140 but the "HD" option for it was never released in the UK and my attempt to grey import one failed. Both HP and sony now have 10 inch 1366x768 models about to be released and i'll probablly end up buying one of those unless something better comes out in the meantime.
The power issue doesn't bother me too much, most long distance trains here now have power outlets anyway. I can see for some people it could be annoying though.
Lets get back to the 7" and 8" models please. The EEE 700 series was pretty much as big as the 900 series despite the smaller screen. Can't say i've seen many 7 or 8 inch ones from other brands.
Personally I want a 10 inch with 1366x768 resolution. HP made one (the mini 2140) with a very thin border such that it was about the same physical size as and EEE 900 but refused to release it in this country and having had a bad experiance with one grey import attempt (I got my money back eventually) i'm not in the mood for trying again plus that model is discontinued now. HP and sony now seem to be about to release new 10 inch models here with the higher res screen though (unfortunately they aren't as small as the 2140).
7) Feds are monitoring connections to the bot net and attempts to master connect to it will be traced. IIRC the way conficker works is that orders are signed (to prevent injection by anyone other than the "owners") and distributed through the botnet. So unless you have virtually every node under very carefull monitoring it's virtually impossible to tell where an order originated from.
Even with traditional vm usage however there is the issue that the generation of ssh host keys is likely to happen very soon after the server is reimaged. Quite possiblly automatically as part of a first boot setup after imaging.
Once generated unless there is reason to suspect a compromise those host keys will likely be retained for the life of the vm.
hot coffee was content that was originally in the game but was locked out. Initially rockstar tried to deny this was the case but this was shown to be BS as people started enabling it on console versions with cheat devices.
If they're at work and for a company so backwards that they don't get rid of crap like IE6 The trouble is there are a shitload of internal webapps that simply don't work with newer versions of IE or with other browsers.
In some cases the only real way to fix this is with a virtual rewrite (if it's internally written) or a very expensive new version (if it's bought in) and expenses that big are hard to justify without a direct buisness benifit.
there is a good chance they don't need Digg for work. Just block them fully. Sites like/. and digg get a lot of thier traffic from people jacking off at work and presumablly they don't want to lose that (especially as I would guess it's some of thier richer users and so more likely to actually spot an add for something they want and click on it)
You'll find once people can't use sites, eventually people with power will get nailed by this and you'll amazingly find IE6 disappear from the work computers. If everyone did it I agree but for any one site to do it would be shooting themselves in the foot.
I don't think opera has a prayer of making any significant money directly from their desktop product when all thier competitors are free (as in beer). They gave up trying to sell thier desktop version a while back and just gave it away.
However it is still in operas interests that IE loses it's dominance because a standards friendly web makes embedded browsers (operas primary market) more usefull.
Dealing with USB however is something that requires a reasonablly powerfull microcontroller with quite complex firmware. Most current microcontrollers are flash based and in many cases are likely to have more flash than the application needs.
because it is hard, It's still hard but afaict it's a lot less hard than it used to be at least if you go up the normal route since there are now staging camps and ladders and ropes accross the hardest sections which are set up by the sherpass and left there for the whole season.
only a few people have been there, Afaict a lot more people have been up everest than have made suborbital flights.
and you get to look on the world from up high. True but you can see it from a similar height from an aircraft with much less hassle.
I would imagine that depends on the particular payphone. You can certainly buy payphones off the shelf that are designed to plug into a normal landline and handle everything at the payphone end (and yes that includes letting 0800 and 999 calls through without payment).
I would guess that how telco payphones work would depend on both the age and the particular payphone. The BT ones at least seem to have some intelligence at the phone end since they have things like a display for remaining credit.
Sometimes I wish that city centers just had a giant ring of parking garages on the perimeter and no cars allowed beyond that point. The trouble with that is while trains and busses work ok for people travelling light they don't work so well for those who need to bring lots of stuff with them.
Are you sure appliances use that much less? TVs have probablly got a bit more efficiant but this is balanced by the fact that big screens are becoming a lot more common and widescreens need to be bigger to get the same picture hight (the extra at the sides is generally filled with filler since content producers can't rely on everyone having a widescreen.
Vacum cleaners seem to be advertising ever more powerfull motors to enable them to clean more thouroughly.
I can't imagine cooking/cleaning appliances have got much lower either.
Afaict that really just leaves fridges/freezers (though better insuation) and lighting (if CFLs or LEDs are use) as appliances with significant reductions.
While heat pumps have a higher nameplate efficiancy than direct gas heating the losses in electricity generation and distribution mean that overall system efficiancy is not that much better, probablly only a factor of two at best. So they are really only worthwhile if our electricity comes from a non fossil source.
You will also often find generic "continental chocolate" in the cooking section. I dunno how it compares to the branded stuff but it certainly seems to work well for covering cakes.
I believe it decends from debian unstable. As does debian stable, the difference is of course what happens in betweeen;). Debian has much better QA than ubuntu.
Debian does make a pretty good server OS, the only thing that puts me off it is the short lifecycle.
To do things properly you really need a proper legal entity (exactly what type of legal entity is best will vary with the project type) with a board of directors/trustees for the project. That legal entity can then legally own the projects money (in a bank account), domain names, hardware etc.
The thing is setting up such an entity takes effort and I think in many cases money too, effort and money that people would rather be spending directly on the project. The result is that such things never get set up and things stay in the name of the lead developers.
Indeed, however afaict centos is a volunteer project. When the shit hits the fan in more important aspects of someones life then such volunteer projects become the last thing on someones mind. Hell for all we know he could be dead or hospitalised.
The real problem is the lack of an organisational structure that can survive it's founder dissapearing. Sadly this is all too common in FOSS projects. It's made worse by the fact that such projects are usually done remotely and so often noone on the project will know any of the person who dissapeared's real life family and friends.
For interior doors opening outwards means they end up partially or even completely blocking the corridor.
There is also possiblly a security/weatherproofing aspect to consider which is that the cracks arround a door are generally open to the side the door opens towards. On the other hand a door that opens inwards is probablly easier to open by brute force so maybe it balances out.
it is just as likely to force a new feature to be dropped at the last minute if it can't make it through the door in time. The problem is with a project as huge as debian is that there is always some feature that can't make it through the door on time. Sooner or later you have to say enough is enough and it is time to polish up what you have and get a release out the door.
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In fact, the predecessor to the 2140, the 2133, packed a 1280x768 resolution into an 8.9" screen. It was awesome, although somewhat eyestrain inducing. It probably would've been better with a slightly larger screen (9.3", perhaps?). IMHO, even 10" is getting too large for it to be considered a netbook.
That's the amazing thing, the 2140 was exactly the same size as the 2133 (which is approximately the same size as an EEE 900) despite the bigger screen. Unfortunately unless I want to pay an intermediary to import a refurb one from the HP US buisness outet store for me at great expense a HD mini 2140 is no longer an option for me.
So afaict (and please tell me if you know of other options with the screen resoloution I want) that leaves me with the option of it's larger (wider border making it comparable in size with the EEE 1000) sucessor the 5000 series (which afaict is about to be released here in the uk though I dunno if they will offer us the HD option or not) or the very similar machine (vaio w series) that sony is about to release.
P.S. sony also offer an 8 inch with 1600 x 768 resolution but I think that's packing the pixels in too small.
not much of a win for the consumer.
I disagree, it used to be that most cheap laptops were big, usually 15 inch, occasionaly 13 inch. The large screen size combined with poor build quality meant that theese machines were pretty damn fragile. If you wanted an ultraportable you went to sony and payed through the nose or bought a secondhand toshiba with really crappy specs.
Then came the OLPC XO, it was cheap but this was tempered by the fact it was only availible though a G1G1 program (pushing up the effective price), it couldn't easilly run windows or normal linux and it had a weird screen and keyboard.
Then came the EEE 700 series which were really pretty crappy machines. They had a case big enough for a 9 inch screen but only fitted with a 7 inch, hardly any storage and a crappy old processor that they then underclocked. Still we jumped on them because they were way cheaper than previous ultraportables while still being pretty conventional machines.
Since then the gap between the first "netbooks" (I hate that term, it implies the machines are far more crippled than they really are) and regular laptops has been gradually filling and I regard this as a good thing, users can now pick there preffered tradeoff between size and functionality.
Personally I want a 10 inch with a vertical resoloution of at least 768 pixels. There was the HP mini 2140 but the "HD" option for it was never released in the UK and my attempt to grey import one failed. Both HP and sony now have 10 inch 1366x768 models about to be released and i'll probablly end up buying one of those unless something better comes out in the meantime.
The power issue doesn't bother me too much, most long distance trains here now have power outlets anyway. I can see for some people it could be annoying though.
Lets get back to the 7" and 8" models please.
The EEE 700 series was pretty much as big as the 900 series despite the smaller screen. Can't say i've seen many 7 or 8 inch ones from other brands.
Personally I want a 10 inch with 1366x768 resolution. HP made one (the mini 2140) with a very thin border such that it was about the same physical size as and EEE 900 but refused to release it in this country and having had a bad experiance with one grey import attempt (I got my money back eventually) i'm not in the mood for trying again plus that model is discontinued now. HP and sony now seem to be about to release new 10 inch models here with the higher res screen though (unfortunately they aren't as small as the 2140).
IIRC some laptops will automatically set a hard disk password if you set a bios password.
7) Feds are monitoring connections to the bot net and attempts to master connect to it will be traced.
IIRC the way conficker works is that orders are signed (to prevent injection by anyone other than the "owners") and distributed through the botnet. So unless you have virtually every node under very carefull monitoring it's virtually impossible to tell where an order originated from.
Even with traditional vm usage however there is the issue that the generation of ssh host keys is likely to happen very soon after the server is reimaged. Quite possiblly automatically as part of a first boot setup after imaging.
Once generated unless there is reason to suspect a compromise those host keys will likely be retained for the life of the vm.
hot coffee was content that was originally in the game but was locked out. Initially rockstar tried to deny this was the case but this was shown to be BS as people started enabling it on console versions with cheat devices.
But out of cash is far from the only reason a transaction can be failed by an ATM.
Then I bet they would be in a very similar position to where MS is now with antitrust suits aimed at them.
But they aren't and they probablly won't be in the forseeable future. They seem content to stay in the luxury market.
If they're at work and for a company so backwards that they don't get rid of crap like IE6
The trouble is there are a shitload of internal webapps that simply don't work with newer versions of IE or with other browsers.
In some cases the only real way to fix this is with a virtual rewrite (if it's internally written) or a very expensive new version (if it's bought in) and expenses that big are hard to justify without a direct buisness benifit.
there is a good chance they don't need Digg for work. Just block them fully. /. and digg get a lot of thier traffic from people jacking off at work and presumablly they don't want to lose that (especially as I would guess it's some of thier richer users and so more likely to actually spot an add for something they want and click on it)
Sites like
You'll find once people can't use sites, eventually people with power will get nailed by this and you'll amazingly find IE6 disappear from the work computers.
If everyone did it I agree but for any one site to do it would be shooting themselves in the foot.
I don't think opera has a prayer of making any significant money directly from their desktop product when all thier competitors are free (as in beer). They gave up trying to sell thier desktop version a while back and just gave it away.
However it is still in operas interests that IE loses it's dominance because a standards friendly web makes embedded browsers (operas primary market) more usefull.
Dealing with USB however is something that requires a reasonablly powerfull microcontroller with quite complex firmware. Most current microcontrollers are flash based and in many cases are likely to have more flash than the application needs.
because it is hard,
It's still hard but afaict it's a lot less hard than it used to be at least if you go up the normal route since there are now staging camps and ladders and ropes accross the hardest sections which are set up by the sherpass and left there for the whole season.
only a few people have been there,
Afaict a lot more people have been up everest than have made suborbital flights.
and you get to look on the world from up high.
True but you can see it from a similar height from an aircraft with much less hassle.
One of the things about whiteknighttwo is that it is a dual fuselage design (to allow the launch cargo to be carried in the middle between them)
Furthermore they made the hulls as big as spaceshiptwo so that they could use one of them to train tourists for thier flight in spaceshiptwo.
So may as well do something profitable with the other hull (making the two hulls different sizes/weights would probablly be very bad for stability)
I would imagine that depends on the particular payphone. You can certainly buy payphones off the shelf that are designed to plug into a normal landline and handle everything at the payphone end (and yes that includes letting 0800 and 999 calls through without payment).
I would guess that how telco payphones work would depend on both the age and the particular payphone. The BT ones at least seem to have some intelligence at the phone end since they have things like a display for remaining credit.
I very much doubt it was bought specially for this.
Sometimes I wish that city centers just had a giant ring of parking garages on the perimeter and no cars allowed beyond that point.
The trouble with that is while trains and busses work ok for people travelling light they don't work so well for those who need to bring lots of stuff with them.
Are you sure appliances use that much less? TVs have probablly got a bit more efficiant but this is balanced by the fact that big screens are becoming a lot more common and widescreens need to be bigger to get the same picture hight (the extra at the sides is generally filled with filler since content producers can't rely on everyone having a widescreen.
Vacum cleaners seem to be advertising ever more powerfull motors to enable them to clean more thouroughly.
I can't imagine cooking/cleaning appliances have got much lower either.
Afaict that really just leaves fridges/freezers (though better insuation) and lighting (if CFLs or LEDs are use) as appliances with significant reductions.
While heat pumps have a higher nameplate efficiancy than direct gas heating the losses in electricity generation and distribution mean that overall system efficiancy is not that much better, probablly only a factor of two at best. So they are really only worthwhile if our electricity comes from a non fossil source.
Fine if you also make the fossil fuel burners sequester the insane ammounts of C02 they create.
You will also often find generic "continental chocolate" in the cooking section. I dunno how it compares to the branded stuff but it certainly seems to work well for covering cakes.
I believe it decends from debian unstable. ;). Debian has much better QA than ubuntu.
As does debian stable, the difference is of course what happens in betweeen
Debian does make a pretty good server OS, the only thing that puts me off it is the short lifecycle.
To do things properly you really need a proper legal entity (exactly what type of legal entity is best will vary with the project type) with a board of directors/trustees for the project. That legal entity can then legally own the projects money (in a bank account), domain names, hardware etc.
The thing is setting up such an entity takes effort and I think in many cases money too, effort and money that people would rather be spending directly on the project. The result is that such things never get set up and things stay in the name of the lead developers.
Indeed, however afaict centos is a volunteer project. When the shit hits the fan in more important aspects of someones life then such volunteer projects become the last thing on someones mind. Hell for all we know he could be dead or hospitalised.
The real problem is the lack of an organisational structure that can survive it's founder dissapearing. Sadly this is all too common in FOSS projects. It's made worse by the fact that such projects are usually done remotely and so often noone on the project will know any of the person who dissapeared's real life family and friends.
For interior doors opening outwards means they end up partially or even completely blocking the corridor.
There is also possiblly a security/weatherproofing aspect to consider which is that the cracks arround a door are generally open to the side the door opens towards. On the other hand a door that opens inwards is probablly easier to open by brute force so maybe it balances out.
it is just as likely to force a new feature to be dropped at the last minute if it can't make it through the door in time.
The problem is with a project as huge as debian is that there is always some feature that can't make it through the door on time. Sooner or later you have to say enough is enough and it is time to polish up what you have and get a release out the door.