for what reason? I'd actually bought 2x of those a while back and stuck them in a D-Link DNS323 (2 bay soho NAS)...
The only problem I'd seen on them is tons of people with nVidia raid controllers it won't work, but after they saw the reviews saying it doesn't and they still buy it, that's their fault...
Exactly - in my case, it's not even about not having to look at ads nearly as much as keeping some random 1 in 100k ads having malicious JavaScript run on an otherwise generally respected site. As crufted as MySpace is, I use it because my friends do. And thanks mostly to Firefox, AdBlock+, and NoScript - I (hopefully) won't be hit by the ill reputed malicious ads...
That aside and to your point of keeping control over your own browsing experience - I visit/. to see whats going on and what people think may motivate Google finalizing Chrome, etc - not read ads for Dice employment services and webhost/rackspace rental companies...
While I agree that KDE 4.0 sucks - installing that and then updating to 4.1 is fantastic (on my Gateway Centrino laptop anyway) Intel gpu means the purty KWin effects work, and they actually have some Plasma widgets, along with themes - the nice part of which is that by changing a universal plasma theme, all the widgets and taskbar change...
ya, because finally being able to manage a gmail inbox or google calendar from iGoogle far better than before is a bad thing? Or even the web-games available for it, where selecting a particular game suggests others like it?
Cool that it runs a Linux kernel, but every single pic from TFA clearly shows Diebold written all over (literally) - everything from the chassis/mold, GUI, and even the POST screen are customized to have Diebold on it...
Supposedly the founders of the OLPC project would be just as happy if this happened - that the XO laptop is just the method they took, but if somebody else has a better plan, more power to them...
Ok, ya, they probably are falsely advertising, and just shoved it off because they got MS WHQL stickers (most companies do the same anymore)...
But you know what? I don't feel too much sympathy - because honestly, you get what you pay for. Any PC builder with half a brain (which it looks like he has plenty of if he knows how to pick apart the bios) is going to know that manufacturers like Foxconn, ECS, Abit, etc are going to be horrible quality (or at best sub-par).
Basically, he probably was being a cheapskate and went with the $30 or 40 dollar Foxconn board, when for $50, a mere $10 more, he could have gotten a fantastic Asus motherboard, or at *least* MSI or Gigabyte...
Actually as far as real world extensibility, the N800 and kin are far better than the iPod touch, as you can install real applications, such as VNC, Gnumeric spreadsheets, mplayer, and a choice of either a mobile Opera or Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3) based browsers, Skype, Jabber, etc clients, and Flash in those web-browsers. And to connect all of that to the internet, you can either use WiFi or Bluetooth pairing to a cellphone.
The only point that the Maemo operating system scores relatively low on right now is user friendliness, since a number of apps need non-default repositories.
Also, the N-series tablets beat this plan to make something as it's already in production, and sold at or close to the 200 price point, not to mention that again, it is much easier to use and install real applications rather than just the default environment being a web browser...
Wait - I've seen this one before, it's a bad Keanu Reeves movie called Chain Reaction, where they get a type of fusion system working (iirc was fusion), but is sabotaged because it would cause the world economy to collapse as oil wouldn't be needed...
Summary: of course it's a false claim - Keanu Reeves is supposed to do that!
The reason "Web-server" edition is so cheap, that as with the same Server 03 version, its there much for the same reason that MS Works exists - it shows you some of the stuff it *could* do, so that you realize "Shit, the company actually needed uber-crazy edition"
Also, the only version that can be clustered across machines is the "Database" edition - so that clustered computing is possible with Windows Server 03 (and now probably 08 also) but has been artificially limited on other editions so that you gotta pay the big bucks to get what you really need...
Also, I think it would be insanely useful for MS to release an official Live disk, mostly for recovery, and make it free to download (even if you need an account with your Windows serial number). This is one of those things with live-cd *nix distros that is invaluable, paired with configurations being in plain text.
I'm not saying Windows has to make its configs in plain text again, just give me a utility where I can reliably boot up a machine that was borked because of some config change or new software, change some options or uninstall software from the machine's Windows OS it boots from, saving me from hoping recovery mode works and sets everything to a backup (if there is one) or reinstalling the OS and go from scratch at home, or re-imaging and loosing documents at work...
Virtual Dimension - hasn't been updated in forever now, but it works, and at least has icons for each application window on the separate desktops - which is what made me hate Microsoft's virtual desktop add-on was I couldn't tell what was on the others without switching. Also, its free as in beer and speech, since I'd say its not worth it to pay for 3rd party software for something *nix desktops have long been able to do...
You're not using a HawkEye system to determine the probable path of those chairs are you? If so it's gonna tell you "You'll be fine not moving" and BAM! a chair in the face!
The idiot employer was considering spamming for his small business, not starting up a botnet and using it to advertise illegally manufactured drugs - somebody might do a whois, but they're only gonna inform the hosting ISP, not the Russian mob that some idiot is encroaching on their territory...
People please don't say "just ghost/sysprep/slipstream your updates!" - for small shops or home users with 3 or 4 machines, ghosting just isn't worth knowing or would be a larger waste of time to learn how
except its closer to being a sys admin where your company can only purchase mediocre equipment that is overpriced and *just* satisfies the minimum requirements through a specific list of middleman ordering companies...
Seriously, who wants to guess on the astronomical chances this isn't actually "hacking" - but more like a few lawmakers, senators, *judges* were surfing porn or clicked the "free ipod for you!" ad, got some malware installed, which was traced back to the one of thirty bajillion malware servers in China, and because its something to do with info security that they don't understand, it's automatically "I got H4X3D!"
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whats more is that if its not compiled specifically for the system, just using Ubuntu with a particular set of programs such as Xfce4 or E17 or whatever, what benefits does it give over just taking the default Eee Xandros and installing those packages yourself? I mean, anybody that knows how to install some random distro will likely know how to add repos - in which case why not just add the repos being easier?
No - however, laptops based on the Via Nanobook reference design, such as the Acer Cloudbook, etc, are. Yes, it is $100 USD more than the cheapest Eee - however, unless people are fine with only having 2gigs of flash memory, I'd say 100 bucks more for a 30gig hdd and slightly larger screen is worth it. I know that not everybody (especially mass orders) can't afford that hundred each, but considering that the equivalent priced Eee only has 4gigs of ssd (if that?)...
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Sounds good, except for deleting browser history, cookies, and especially "private browsing" now...
but then nobody would visit their site and give them ad revenue, would they?
for what reason? I'd actually bought 2x of those a while back and stuck them in a D-Link DNS323 (2 bay soho NAS)...
The only problem I'd seen on them is tons of people with nVidia raid controllers it won't work, but after they saw the reviews saying it doesn't and they still buy it, that's their fault...
Exactly - in my case, it's not even about not having to look at ads nearly as much as keeping some random 1 in 100k ads having malicious JavaScript run on an otherwise generally respected site. As crufted as MySpace is, I use it because my friends do. And thanks mostly to Firefox, AdBlock+, and NoScript - I (hopefully) won't be hit by the ill reputed malicious ads...
/. to see whats going on and what people think may motivate Google finalizing Chrome, etc - not read ads for Dice employment services and webhost/rackspace rental companies...
That aside and to your point of keeping control over your own browsing experience - I visit
While I agree that KDE 4.0 sucks - installing that and then updating to 4.1 is fantastic (on my Gateway Centrino laptop anyway) Intel gpu means the purty KWin effects work, and they actually have some Plasma widgets, along with themes - the nice part of which is that by changing a universal plasma theme, all the widgets and taskbar change...
ya, because finally being able to manage a gmail inbox or google calendar from iGoogle far better than before is a bad thing? Or even the web-games available for it, where selecting a particular game suggests others like it?
Cool that it runs a Linux kernel, but every single pic from TFA clearly shows Diebold written all over (literally) - everything from the chassis/mold, GUI, and even the POST screen are customized to have Diebold on it...
If only I had the mod points I had 2 days ago...
Supposedly the founders of the OLPC project would be just as happy if this happened - that the XO laptop is just the method they took, but if somebody else has a better plan, more power to them...
Hell, even offa Best Buy's site, its something like $270, $240 on Newegg, and $220 on Tiger Direct (where I got mine)
Ok, ya, they probably are falsely advertising, and just shoved it off because they got MS WHQL stickers (most companies do the same anymore)...
But you know what? I don't feel too much sympathy - because honestly, you get what you pay for. Any PC builder with half a brain (which it looks like he has plenty of if he knows how to pick apart the bios) is going to know that manufacturers like Foxconn, ECS, Abit, etc are going to be horrible quality (or at best sub-par).
Basically, he probably was being a cheapskate and went with the $30 or 40 dollar Foxconn board, when for $50, a mere $10 more, he could have gotten a fantastic Asus motherboard, or at *least* MSI or Gigabyte...
Actually as far as real world extensibility, the N800 and kin are far better than the iPod touch, as you can install real applications, such as VNC, Gnumeric spreadsheets, mplayer, and a choice of either a mobile Opera or Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3) based browsers, Skype, Jabber, etc clients, and Flash in those web-browsers. And to connect all of that to the internet, you can either use WiFi or Bluetooth pairing to a cellphone.
The only point that the Maemo operating system scores relatively low on right now is user friendliness, since a number of apps need non-default repositories.
Also, the N-series tablets beat this plan to make something as it's already in production, and sold at or close to the 200 price point, not to mention that again, it is much easier to use and install real applications rather than just the default environment being a web browser...
Wait - I've seen this one before, it's a bad Keanu Reeves movie called Chain Reaction, where they get a type of fusion system working (iirc was fusion), but is sabotaged because it would cause the world economy to collapse as oil wouldn't be needed...
Summary: of course it's a false claim - Keanu Reeves is supposed to do that!
The reason "Web-server" edition is so cheap, that as with the same Server 03 version, its there much for the same reason that MS Works exists - it shows you some of the stuff it *could* do, so that you realize "Shit, the company actually needed uber-crazy edition"
Also, the only version that can be clustered across machines is the "Database" edition - so that clustered computing is possible with Windows Server 03 (and now probably 08 also) but has been artificially limited on other editions so that you gotta pay the big bucks to get what you really need...
Also, I think it would be insanely useful for MS to release an official Live disk, mostly for recovery, and make it free to download (even if you need an account with your Windows serial number). This is one of those things with live-cd *nix distros that is invaluable, paired with configurations being in plain text.
I'm not saying Windows has to make its configs in plain text again, just give me a utility where I can reliably boot up a machine that was borked because of some config change or new software, change some options or uninstall software from the machine's Windows OS it boots from, saving me from hoping recovery mode works and sets everything to a backup (if there is one) or reinstalling the OS and go from scratch at home, or re-imaging and loosing documents at work...
Virtual Dimension - hasn't been updated in forever now, but it works, and at least has icons for each application window on the separate desktops - which is what made me hate Microsoft's virtual desktop add-on was I couldn't tell what was on the others without switching. Also, its free as in beer and speech, since I'd say its not worth it to pay for 3rd party software for something *nix desktops have long been able to do...
You're not using a HawkEye system to determine the probable path of those chairs are you? If so it's gonna tell you "You'll be fine not moving" and BAM! a chair in the face!
The idiot employer was considering spamming for his small business, not starting up a botnet and using it to advertise illegally manufactured drugs - somebody might do a whois, but they're only gonna inform the hosting ISP, not the Russian mob that some idiot is encroaching on their territory...
People please don't say "just ghost/sysprep/slipstream your updates!" - for small shops or home users with 3 or 4 machines, ghosting just isn't worth knowing or would be a larger waste of time to learn how
except its closer to being a sys admin where your company can only purchase mediocre equipment that is overpriced and *just* satisfies the minimum requirements through a specific list of middleman ordering companies...
Seriously, who wants to guess on the astronomical chances this isn't actually "hacking" - but more like a few lawmakers, senators, *judges* were surfing porn or clicked the "free ipod for you!" ad, got some malware installed, which was traced back to the one of thirty bajillion malware servers in China, and because its something to do with info security that they don't understand, it's automatically "I got H4X3D!"
whats more is that if its not compiled specifically for the system, just using Ubuntu with a particular set of programs such as Xfce4 or E17 or whatever, what benefits does it give over just taking the default Eee Xandros and installing those packages yourself? I mean, anybody that knows how to install some random distro will likely know how to add repos - in which case why not just add the repos being easier?
Ok, other than its already been done - in an anime by the name of .hack://SIGN
Hell, the series is probably even more sci-fi/fantasy than the Sci-Fi channel itself.
No - however, laptops based on the Via Nanobook reference design, such as the Acer Cloudbook, etc, are. Yes, it is $100 USD more than the cheapest Eee - however, unless people are fine with only having 2gigs of flash memory, I'd say 100 bucks more for a 30gig hdd and slightly larger screen is worth it. I know that not everybody (especially mass orders) can't afford that hundred each, but considering that the equivalent priced Eee only has 4gigs of ssd (if that?)...
Was the previous method shooting up through your own cities at the aliens?
I know, its a different type of "alien" but it seemed funny...
Better make sure you replace those school room chairs with bean-bags! Wait, crap, he can just suffocate the kids with those...