Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 2) 102
"Movies are best watched on cell phones."
- David Lynch
"Movies are best watched on cell phones."
- David Lynch
Why do people still think that taking an antique computer and adding Linux is such an amazing thing?
This is a 7 year old laptop - and while someone may have replaced all the batteries with new ones, dismantled it and cleaned the internals with an air duster, and cleaned up the case it's still a diverted piece of e-waste.
Charging people $320 for something that probably cost them less than $50 to acquire is gouging - especially when people have problems with them.
I assume your time is worth nothing and the new batteries are free.
Of course!
Like putting too much air in a balloon!
It seems that the law firm got the IP addresses by running ads on RedTube
There's an ongoing investigation and criminal complaint against the responsible lawyer Daniel Sebastian.
You can turn recent Nvidia Geforce cards into Quadros by removing and adding 1 or 2 resistors.
The resistors simply encode the PCI device ID.
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/hacking-nvidia-cards-into-their-professional-counterparts/
Never heard of yeeloong.
On Slashdot?
Yeeloong made the only laptops with 100% free software for a long time.
Stallman uses a Yeeloong Lemote netbook.
Lenovo
Yeeloong
Why?
It's not a significant problem because the repository is signed with OpenPGP.
aptitude displays a big red warning if there are unknown signatures in in your repository.
actually have commercial driver support
You mean proprietary drivers that only work on one or two architectures and seize to be supported when new hardware generations need to be sold.
BitTorrent is great for transferring large files with multiple slow Internet connections.
Seed with each connection, leech with the destination machine.
Impressive if you can do that on the kernel and still be confident of stability.
You can actually do that with Oracle Ksplice for Linux.
A pre-installed virtual machine image could be the easiest solution.
It can be easily converted to different VM technologies, e.g. VirtualBox, KVM or VMware.
Just forward some ports or route an IP and you're good to go.
I suggest some standard distribution like Debian stable with automatic security updates for the guest.
It can be used on servers, desktops and small systems like the Raspberry Pi.
It can be bleeding edge with its unstable and experimental repositories.
It can be rock solid with the stable repository.
It comes with a non-free repository just in case you need proprietary firmware or drivers.
But wait, Debian is also a good choice if you're like RMS and want to fully embrace freedom:
It doesn't install anything non-free unless you explicitely allow it (since version 6.0).
Debian is one of the most versatile operating systems.
You can use GRUB2 with a single static cfg file just as well.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
