Just a short note. I picked up an Air Dock back when their Indigogo campaign was under way. I have now had this thing for a little over a year.
In general it works fine and does exactly what it says. I use the CD-mount, which has a nice picture down on this page.
Usually, I'd agree with you. In this case the laptop is a bit of a Frankenstein model. The CPU is an engineering sample of an AMD A-10, and the BIOS is missing details of serial numbers, etc. Makes for an odd boot, but it was cheap and does what I want. I've also replaced the stock RAM, drive, wireless, BlueTooth and everything else that could be replaced.
The reboot thing is new and I suspect it has something to do with the boot loader. I expect to be able to fix it.
The Wifi I'll have to investigate. I have some leads, but should be able to fix it.
If it were an off-the-shelf model I'd agree with you, but because of what I've done to it I am a bit more tolerant.
No, it works fine for me using the keyboard function keys.
So have I, but it depends on the video drivers.
Under the FOSS drivers on both AMD and nVidia I can play the video fine, but if I move the mouse into the window, it lags.
With the proprietary drivers this doesn't happen.
I installed in on my HP ProBook 6475b laptop the other day and have only run into some minor issues.
1. I opted for full disk encrypted LVM. It didn't ask for a separate Swap partition password, instead using the main one. Fine. However, when booting, I have to enter it twice -- once for the main partition, once for swap. [Bug reported and acknowledged]
2. It hangs on reboot. I have to boot twice every time to get it to get past the boot loader. I've tried "shut down", then letting it sit for 10 minutes. Next boot -- hang and I reboot and then it works.
3. My wifi doesn't come back after suspend. I think it has to do with the particular laptop firmware, because it does this with every distro I've tried. Everything else works, but the wifi never makes it out of suspend.
The rest works fine. Changing to the proprietary AMD video drivers was a snap, and it sped up video playback to what I would expect (no stuttering on HD).
The mismanagement reports of the 1990s and 2000s existed when the OHA voted in favor of this project in 2009. The size and scope of the telescope hasn't changed since then.
What is different? Why was this acceptable to them in 2009 but not 2015?
Two words: key escrow. Google "secret sharing" for interesting details and concepts.
Once again, life imitates art.
What if...
Instead of a stupid troll you were actually interested in the answers. Interested enough to either take some classes on the subject, or expend some effort educating yourself.
We live in an age where the vast majority of the world's information is available for little to no cost or effort, yet you actively choose to remain ignorant.
Step 1: Understand what science is. http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/whatisscience_01
Step 2: Take a class or look it up. http://space.about.com/cs/astronomy101/a/astro101a.htm
Step 3: Keep digging
Almost. If you're serious about archiving low volumes of data, use these: http://www.mdisc.com/what-is-mdisc/
The can be read in standard BD and DVD players, and the drives aren't expensive. I picked up a DVD-R one for under $100, and a pack of disks for $45.
Then I found I have so little data that I want to preserve for a long time, I've never bought a second pack of disks.
A couple of BD-Rs stored in a safe deep deposit box or over at a relative's house.
There was a concerted attempt to take over another group and fundamentally change their goals and message. That is s hijacking.
The fact that they were not strong enough to fend off the attack doesn't make it any less of a hijacking.
I agree apathy played a part on their demise, but the religious right parasites played a large part as well.
My irritation with the religious right is with their hypocrisy and complete unwillingness to accept the lessons of both the Reform Party and TEA Party debacles -- that their views represent a MINORITY in this country. They, too, are unable to achieve their goals on their own and need to coopt the agendas of others to succeed.
I was at one of the very first TEA Parties in downtown Chicago. It didn't fizzle out because of a tendency towards apathy and the difficulty in sustaining a high level of outrage. It was hijacked by the right-wing social agenda crowd and they killed it.
TEA stands for "Taxed Enough Already", and in the beginning of the movement that was what it was focused on. Too many taxes. That WAS the issue.
Then came the right-wing social agenda crowd injecting anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, and several other topics that had NOTHING to do with taxes and big government.
The original TEA Party movement was LIBERTARIAN, not "conservative". They were very much for keeping the gov't out of people's lives -- including out of the bedroom and NOT enforcing any social agenda.
What happened to the TEA Party is the same thing that happened to the Reform Party. Remember when Pay Buchanan hijacked the 2000 Reform Party Convention in Long Beach, the police had to be called and the Convention settled by the courts? They showed success where the Christian right-wingers never could, so they got co-opted and died because their soul was sold.
Wait an extra day or two and I'm sure the breeze will be enough to cool you off.
Stop and go traffic for hurricane evacuations are for people who wait to the last minute to go over the causeway.
I think you need to do a little research about the way electric cars operate in stop & go traffic. There is no idling like with an ICE. It just shuts off when you stop.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
