I don't have the tablet I do have a new x230.

The good:

• 2 mass storage devices WHOO! (mSATA and 2.5" sata) DM-Cache here I come (once I can buy BIG spinning rust 2.5" 7mm drives)
• it's light and portable and this means it actually comes with me now.
• adding bluetooth was straighforward (AWESOME manuals online)

That said:

• The touchpad is complete writeoff.
• Ubuntu boots and runs fine in UEFI mode. sadly debian still doesn't but it works in legacy bios mode.

linus photogenic yeah.. right... https://www.linux.com/news/galleries/1-linus-torvalds-in-pictures/24

Here you go:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:249

FREE HAT! FREE HAT!

*Cough* They have.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110801/03544615342/judge-waxes-comedic-whether-you-can-trademark-quilted-diamonds-toilet-paper.shtml

Gold has an ammount of intrisic value it's got some very nice electrical and mechanical properties, additionally people have clothed themselves in gold throughout history ref: http://info.goldavenue.com/Info_site/in_arts/in_civ/in_fash_overview.html

Home uses a naming standard based on animal families,

So I have:

1. cetacea (my laptop)
2. bovine
3. serpentine
4. dromedary
5. etc

Work has decreed that systems are named with a letter and 5 numbers. this is nuts. Whats' more the difference between production Dr, and Dev instances of a system can be just the letter.

By the way cannonical names should never ever contain data. it's stupid. functional aliases/cnames for sure. but never every system hostnames encoding the location, function, operationgsystem etc into a canonical hostname is just wrong.

but hey "ours is not to reason why"

Inquiring minds want to know.

man.. I want your desk if you can spread out all the iso interface definition documents on it and be able to read them

It's about the downside of memory becoming cheap causing latency problems with congestion control mechinisms that rely on the endpoints being able to inform the sender when it's sending too fast.

Jim Getty's research blog entry explains the problem in detail.

That works fine until you have 30 sysadmins... because you have 1500 systems in your environment.

Really.. sudo su - is not appropriate in serious environments at scale that need to meet strong AAA and governance requirements.

Nope.. only the fact you sudo su -'d was logged. nothing after that was.

Sudo everything provides an actual audit trail to the actions taken by an admin. which is essential in environments where governance and acountability are required.

So I enjoyed Tron legacy but... there were a couple of problems in my opinion.

It suffered for better technology rather than using the technology to tell a story they got sucked into we can so we should. in particular the whole cityscape inside the computer with neon was a tad cyber punk rather than being a otherworldly reflection of inside the system as the original tron was.

Also the whole thing with the one remaining ISO was very Weird Science ie Inside the computer is a super hot smart chick if you could just get off your ass to go rescue her.

Also When they break out of the grid there's this wasteland with no energy no light nada in the original tron regardless of where they go there's energy around.

The house was also a big problem the idea that Flynn just gives up and goes all zen master is totally whack imho.

Assuming just for a second that this isn't a horrible troll...

Low bitrate have many useful applications. ethernet style bandwidth isn't availible everywhere and where it is availible low bitrate codecs allow you to have more conversations in the same connection

so for example community telco you could use the wifi links to trunk 100's of calls instead of a couple of dozen. more efficient use of bandwidth for meaningful communications is a worthy goal.

As a newly licenced ham in a area where Dstar repeaters are everywhere (VK) and free software advocate I have recently become aware of the issues with Dstar and have been reading about this work so it's quite surreal to have it pop up on /. in the week where I get my licence. I havn't had a chance to read the Dstar specifications but am wondering if the voice codec is flagged in the dstar digital stream. and if it would be possible to create translating repeaters so dual output repeaters with differently coded data streams it'd take more spectrum but would also allow for a migration path (at least for repeater users?)