After reading this article it came to mind that now Vista is more closely modeled after a less lossely coupled data+code instead of closely coupled data+code it might become easier for companies to write drivers for all platforms.

Would this be holding up in practice ?

Recently i noticed an increasing number of projects are outdating, no longer receiving frequent updates, being simply abandoned for some other thing to do. Here i think lies a great pitfall for open-source projects.

After checking out a couple (just 2) software archives/repositories this impression has grown on me. Especially those really-neat-idea projects are often left in beta-stage, pre-alpha or did reach a stable stage but are no longer maintained.

Truly sad, how will this affect the image of open-source with all those newbies comming to have a look in that great-bunch-of-software ?

Up to this day i've found little to no information regarding this particular type of laptop, wich i've been looking for for some odd time now. It concerns an AMD laptop with an AMD Turion MT processor, that is not ML, eMTee! Oh yeah! 25W, 2.2Ghz, 64-Bit cpu and some cool gfx solution for nvidia or ati was is goal . . .

Did find manufacturers seem simply to ignore the AMD-Turion-MT in their product line. 1 decent article claiming it dispenses a lot of heat (MSI), battery life that'll never (1/4th) beat a similar intel laptop cpu/chipset ... so i wonder is this amd turion mt-series laptop a wild goose chase ? Will there ever be such a laptop available in europe ? Why isn't this cpu accepted despite it's specs ?

Googled all i could, found little usefull, so now i turn to the great monopole called the slashdot community to maybe enlighten my darkened path.

TPC, owh, sigh*
What a world we're ending up in.

Now there's a worldwide increase in terrorist activity we are gently being forced into 'secure' computing.

As if a computer will ever be secure, for real. It's us in there you know.

Picture your computer as a holographic abstract of society, a country even. For as long as some more or less democratic and humain rulers are in place life's pretty dandy. Once a despotic or dictatorial inhumain bunch is in place paradise can become hell in no time.

So, why tpc ? It's far too much of overkill for a "mostly harmless" planet.