Text 13670, 64 rader
Skriven 2009-12-16 14:26:57 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 13489 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: looking into the future, where will it be?
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Hello Maurice.

23 Nov 09 17:49, you wrote to me:

 >> So there is some method in my madness

 MK> Yep.  I just finished the latest and greatest last night and am just
 MK> about to start working on the ramdisk for it.  Should be doable from
 MK> either a flash disk (usb or the SD card slot) or a regular spinney
 MK> drive on usb without any alterations wrt the targetted boot drive.

That is great ... !

 MK> The chrootable part looks to be ~700M.  Threw in some extras.  gimp
 MK> and some extra libs for it mostly.  Also some CD/DVD stuff you might
 MK> be interested in.  Put in both ecasound and sox but no frontends for

<snip>

 MK> Anything else?

Skype ... , I use it to chat with my brothers, one in Cape Town +/- 1400 km's 
away, and my other brother currently in Afganistan ... , they are not really 
computer literate ... <sigh>

Gimp I don't need or use ...


 >> That works as wel, but I have to go looking for the options to
 >> feed dd

 MK> As far as copying a bootable iso to a disk there aren't many options
 MK> you need to know about.

 MK>   dd if=whateverbootable.iso of=/dev/sdb

 MK> What's wrong with the above if /dev/sdb is a SD card in the SD card
 MK> slot on the eeepc?  Same for usb flash disks.

Must try that ...

 MK> Yeah that sucks.  I recall us talking about that as well as seeing on
 MK> the news a few years ago about the infrastucture there needed a major
 MK> overhaul.  Also heard that a major Canadian research concern is
 MK> looking at SA (Australia too) as potential locations for major antenna
 MK> structures so perhaps that could kickstart some overhaul wrt the power
 MK> grid.  I thought it was interesting.

Well electricty has doubled in price, and is set to double again, that is hell 
on the economy, but then it's only us "suckers" who pay and pay and pay and 
...

One result is that frozen food pre-packs are going to dissapear or become 
un-buyable, due to the costs of refrigeration ...

They are determined to build a large array radio telesope in they out beyond, 
for some reason, and I don't see the local benefits, so ... :-(

It will probably end up with it's own independant power source ...

Russell

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