Clock speed is 1.4 GHz, just over double the speed of RasPi. (That doesn't mean it's only 2x as fast, since it's probably a slightly newer ARM core, but it's unlikely to be 20x as fast, even if it's doing something like Odroid's quad-core ARM.)
It's definitely cute, but I'd think the Chromecast HDMI/USB-stick format, or something a bit larger but still pocket-sized, makes more sense.
First URL should be Core, and also in the second line of my post there's a missing quote mark after "of course you've got a huge disk drive even though you don't have much RAM or CPU .
Core is a lightweight version of Ubuntu, intended so you can build it on small systems like cloud VMs or ARM boards or embedded devices. (That's an Ubuntu-ish use of "lightweight", which seems to be "of course you've got a huge disk drive even though you don't have much RAM or CPU, but I haven't yet loaded all the pieces to find what it takes to get a minimally useful system. It ain't Puppy Linux, but it's at least a JeOS replacement.)
Snappy is a package manager. It's designed for doing transactional updates to apps and frameworks, so you can load things that you really want to either succeed completely or else fail completely and clean up after themselves, without getting into trouble like dependencies or having to wait until the next semi-yearly Ubuntu release to have all their pieces. It's a replacement for apt/yum/ports/etc.
Snappy Ubuntu Core is an implementation of Core with a Snappy package manager on top of it. You'd typically load a framework like Docker on top of that, but you don't have to if your apps don't need it (or if you just don't have room.) Almost all the "Snappy Ubuntu Core" articles, including at Ubuntu.com, are mostly about Snappy package management, not actually about Core. Sigh.
My medium-security passwords were usually L33tSp34k versions of one or two dictionary words, plus whatever capitalization and punctuation were required. But now that I'm occasionally accessing the web through tablets and accessing work systems over cellphone, I've had to switch to Android-friendly passwords, so the letters get grouped together, followed by the numbers, and usually any punctuation is the limited set that appear on the same keypads as the letters or the numbers. So it's Abc,1234 instead of Passw0rd! for trivial passwords now...
I've had a number of devices over the years where the default password was the MAC address of the admin port or first wired Ethernet port or equivalent, and was also printed on a label on the device. It's not perfect, but it's at least unique, and is strong enough that in most cases, people won't try to crack it, or anybody who might try cracking it has physical access to the box (in which case you're toast anyway.)
Ok, not any more, but for many years the root/admin/whatever password on Stallman's MIT machines was just carriage return. The point was extreme openness, so that anybody could log on, see anything, fix anything, copy any code.
I didn't buy it, largely because the gas mileage was lame, but the last time I bought a car I thought seriously about buying a Nissan Cube to replace my nearly-dead van. It would have to be blue, not only because it really does appear to be "bigger on the inside", but because for many years there was a building in Silicon Valley called The Blue Cube that was Spooky Satellite Control System Headquarters. It's gone now (looks like they've even cleaned up most of the rubble from dismantling it.)
If I'd actually played Portal, I'd probably have voted for Companion Cubes, though.
Finally got around to putting my landline on the Do Not Call List. The robots still call me, but half of them don't connect me to a recording, just sit there silently, and if they do play a recording and I hit "1" or whatever to speak to a live agent, half of them hang up on me. (One even plays an announcement saying "1" isn't a correct extension.:-)
I don't know how much of this is because their robots are broken, how much is because they don't have enough call center workers at the times they're calling me, and how much is because they're just trying to harass me.
I was ok with Google ads, because they were just a little box with some text links, no bulky images, no animation, no Flash, and if there was any Javascript in it, it was well-written and not a resource hog. (Eventually I gave up and let AdBlockPlus block them too, because collateral damage was easier than special-casing them.)
But Zedo, the folks with popunder windows? Kill them with fire, put all their domain names in
Doubleclick was an early ad company, and as far as I could tell, before Google bought them their slogan was "Be Evil. Buy Ads from the Dark Side, We've Got Cookies!" so I'd been blocking them in
So if Bad Guys were putting even more malware into Zedo and Doubleclick, that's just a reminder that blocking aggressive advertisers is a good idea.
Exactly my reaction.
Space launches by private companies potentially include his own launches, and good luck to him. And yeah, Moore's Law is usually your friend.
There was a while, though, that the most effective business models for satellite communication, underseas fiber cables, and terrestrial fibers were
There are lots of ways to get right angles with simple tools that don't require knowing the Pythagorean theorem (including the use of 3-4-5 triangles, which work fine even if you don't know that they're one solution of a large class of problems.) Back when I was taking drafting and wood shop in junior high school, the way you got a right angle was "Use a T-Square and #2 pencil", not "Calculate the area of the square on the hypotenuse."
And ~2500 years later, when the condo I live in was built, Pythagoras's theorem was very well known, but the builder still thought of straight lines and right angles as generally good ideas, not actual strict requirements.
Coworker of mine was on a drug trial jury (back in ~1990 in New Jersey.) The (Hispanic) defendant had bought some airplane glue at the hardware store, and was carrying it home in the plastic bag from the store. The cop claimed that obviously he was intending it for glue sniffing, and the plastic bag was the drug paraphernalia he was planning to sniff it in, and was obviously Guilty Guilty Guilty. Joe was not only appalled that the case was brought in the first place, but that he and one other techie were the only two jurors who thought there was reasonable doubt there (actually, thought there was no doubt at all, the guy was buying glue to fix something at his house.)
But yeah, I think that Ulricht's lawyer claiming that "This isn't the Dread Pirate Roberts you're looking for" is going to be a tough sell. Might be all he's got to go on, though (especially if he actually was DPR.)
Docker seems to be the new version of what people used to do with BSD jails. But VMs can give you more flexibility, if you're running hardware that can handle them (as opposed to running your home router/firewall/server on the old PC, and using your newer box for gaming or your laptop for work and browsing.) And there are router-oriented VMs like Vyatta out there.
Are you routing on custom hardware (e.g. a cheap router running OpenWRT)? Old Low-End PC? A basic current Intel box? Removable disks? USB Flash Stick? Mikrotik board?
Some hardware makes it really easy to switch operating systems. For instance, if you can run your router from a virtual machine (because your hardware is new enough), if you don't like it, or want something new, just shut down the VM and fire up a new one. If you only want to buy $50 worth of hardware, a Raspberry Pi has the advantage that the disk drive isn't built in, it's just an SD card, so if you want to change OS's you just pop the old one out and put in a new one.
Booting from a USB flash stick is probably the easiest choice for most Intel-based hardware. You can get 8GB for $5, set it up, boot from it, and if it's not doing what you want, remove it and reboot your old OS. Many Linux distros are quite friendly on USB sticks, and some BSDs are, though OpenBSD seems to be a bit harder to do that with (maybe that's a just problem with documentation, but it seems like Theo doesn't trust VMs or booting from USB instead of CD and hard drives.)
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
