I have met the Nuon team last year, it is incredible to see how professional they set things up. I have also participated in the championship for solar powered boats, and when I compare our (Dutch) teams to foreign competitors I think we are miles ahead.

...is that the sender could be more easily verified. On the other hand it seems to be no problem at all to get a Schengen Visa using only documents that were scanned instead of faxed. So I believe there is some legal value to scanning as well.

I build embedded Linux systems, I will not modify any code. Only use the platform to run our proprietary applications. Although I would love to contribute code back, this is not possible because whilst we use a lot of foss we don't change anything. I can easily see why there will be more companies that are in this position. For me the only thing I can give back to the community is helping people on a forum or mailing list.And I believe that is just as important as contributing lines of code.

As somebody who has daily communications with the other side of the globe I can not imagine any need for this. The only moment when the time difference is a bitch is when suffering from jet lag, but that is based on our biological clock.

You people can't drive stick, and now not even navigate a simple roundabout. jeeez

How can this ever be approved? I imagine this can cause all sorts of problems. The power grid in a normal house is not designed for this, same thing goes for the ethernet over power crap. There are all sorts or regulations about keeping net pollution down, and using it as a transmission medium goes directly against this.

Always remember Ohms law is wrong! Or at least to us EMC engineers...

For goodness sake, all these warnings are just plain bollocks. Why do governments allow fairy-tales like the whole cell phone radiation thing to spread among the population. It is a disgrace, any serious engineer will know these rumors are not true.

However, one part of the problem is also that they are afraid their (custom made) software will not work on a new OS. If more companies would adopt OSS then they could more easily transition between systems while using the same software package (with upgrades of course). Also the architecture of the computers would not be such a big deal as it is these days. The software development companies can then focus on giving support instead of writing some code and releasing specialized patches each time a new support ticket comes up.

Any graphical parts are not important. What is important is the fact that we can now ditch some technology that we have been using for a long long time. Of course people will complain about legacy software and what not, but any software worth using can just be recompiled or edited to deal with modern technologies.

The SoC used is the same as in the GP2X Wiz, only problem is starting the kernel. The rest should be fine.

At the company I work we have some little arm computers, no netbooks but rather thin clients. They come with windows CE 5 installed, but it is a bitch to get them to run linux. I have not succeeded at all. Partly because I don't know windows CE and I can't seem to get Haret to boot my prepared linux kernel because it won't work properly.