Elonex readies low-cost Linux laptop ..
Doug Mentohl
at students .. the Linux-based laptop will boast a 3-hour battery life,
Wi-Fi, a flash-based hard drive, a "hard-wearing case" and a "wireless
music server,"'
http://www.news.com/U.K.s-Elonex-readies-low-cost-Linux-laptop/2100-1044_3-6230997.html
Hadron
Surely they're not trying to undermine the OLPC? Where's Roybot? Quick !!!
Roybot, Boycottttt .......
Vernon Wormer
"Hadron" <hadro...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:fq18fg$q8b$1...@registered.motzarella.org...
Funny how it's okay for anyone and everyone else to release a low-cost
laptop. Even if it DIRECTLY competes with the OLPC. It all boils down to the
"more choice is good" mantra. But when the worlds largest chipmaker (Intel)
releases a similar laptop then it's evil, immoral and somehow illegal. But
as long as you're anyone but Intel then it's a good thing.
Smells of hypocrisy.
<quote>
PC maker and services company Elonex is to launch a $195 laptop aimed at
students.
"The One removes the cost barrier that has prevented the
one-laptop-per-person, large-scale uptake of computers in the education
system that has for so long been just a pipe dream," Sam Goult, Elonex's
marketing manager, said in a statement last week.
</quote>
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Doug Mentohl
> S .....
Doug Mentohl
> F ..
Hadron
> on 26/02/08 14:41 Hadron wrote:
>
>> S .....
So you don't agree this undermines the OLPC?
Doug Mentohl
> So ..
did you know that an anagram of 'om mani padme hum' is 'ammonia mud
hemp', so technically speaking they mean the same thing ...
Hadron
Whatever.
So do you think this will undermine the OLPC?
Vernon Wormer
"Doug Mentohl" <doug_m...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
news:fq19qr$1su$3...@news.datemas.de...
> on 26/02/08 14:49 Vernon Wormer wrote:
>
http://www.news.com/U.K.s-Elonex-readies-low-cost-Linux-laptop/2100-1044_3-6230997.html
Doug Mentohl
> S ..
What part of fuck.off don't you understand . You choose to trash Roy in
the first reply to this thread, as such I am not obliged to engage with
an ignorant little shit like you ...
Doug Mentohl
> P ..
Hadron
Your language and overall mental like aggression suggest that you are
not capable of "engaging" with anyone but your analyst. And Roy is a
spamming arsehole who has little grasp of the issues he purports to know
about. More fool you for sucking his dick on a daily basis - but as they
say, in the valley of the blind the one eyed man is king. It's just a
pity you spend so long with Roy's one eye lodged between your tonsils.
Doug Mentohl
> And Roy is a spamming arsehole ..
It's normal for even the dummest fucking troll on Usenet to address his
abuse directly to the victim. As such what you say about Roy is of no
interest to me and is really not hurting my feelings, at all ... :)
Hadron
Really? You spent a lot of time earlier condemning people who confirmed
here that Roy is indeed a self serving spammer with a financial agenda
to generate as many clicks on his sites as he can.
How you do waver Dog.
Doug Mentohl
> Really? ..
Yea, but tell it to Roy, I'm not him ...
Flattie excercising the pooch ..
http://snipurl.com/20g4n [www_freebeastsex_net]
William Poaster
1] Quack doesn't even know what spam is.
2] Roy S conveniently puts [NEWS] in his subject line. But as usual, & in common
with the other wintrolls, Quack would sooner whine & moan instead of using a
killfile to remove Roy's posts from his newsreader.
Perhaps "fuck off back to a windoze group, hardon" would've been better?
--
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Linux systems: PCLOS 2007, Mandrake One 2008.1,
Fedora 8, Kubuntu 7.10.
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Doug Mentohl
> Perhaps "fuck off back to a windoze group, hardon" would've been better?
Perehaps the simplest solution would be to post reply to: alt.null. It's
not as if anything they say is of interest to anyone ..
Hadron
Interestingly I have never frequented any Windows group. I have
frequented Linux ones as Willy well knows because following me pointing
it out, the rest all now realise he is a worthless windbag with NOTHING
to offer threads about Linux other than "well it all worked for me 10
years ago and my killfiles are massive". I think it was flatfish who
once commented on Willy being the most boring poster of all time. I tend
to agree. Definitely as sharp as 7 and WronG too.
ray
"flash-based hard drive" would seem to be an oxymoron.
Hadron
Doug Mentohl
> "flash-based hard drive" would seem to be an oxymoron.
1GB of Flash memory is pretty good, is there room for a hard-harddrive.
I would see these being usefull as mini-thin-clients into a local server
providing group-ware, connectivity etc. ten to twenty clients would be
usable.
US$195.00 = GB£99 - WOW ...
Moshe Goldfarb
Doug Mentohl is clearly off his meds again.
Since they kicked him out of the Internet cafe, I'll bet Roy Schestowitz is
his only friend.
Oh well, you know what they say...a friend in need is a friend indeed...or
something like that.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
Moshe Goldfarb
I think Roy is too busy fluffing Mark Kent.
Moshe Goldfarb
Sooner or later one of these manufacturers will make one of these devices
that actually works.
Rick
No.
--
Rick
The Ghost In The Machine
<no...@nomail.com>
wrote
on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:23:51 -0000
<13s97s7...@news.supernews.com>:
That 8-to-11 hour battery life of the OLPC is going to be
rather hard to beat. The unit in this thread only sports
3 hours.
There might be other advantages, of course; laptops can
be presents for big children as well. ;-)
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If your CPU can't stand the heat, get another fan.
Mark Kent
It looks like an excellent deal, perhaps a rather better one than the
Eee, since it's half the price.
I think his point was that flash is not a hard drive...
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Kier
The EeePC works, you lying little prick.
--
Kier
Moshe Goldfarb
Sure it does, with Windows loaded on it which is why Asus is releasing a
Windows version.
As for Linux?
People are removing Linux and installing Windows as soon as they get the
device.
So yes, the hardware works rather nicely.
It's Linux that's the problem.
RonB
> The EeePC works, you lying little prick.
That's flatline's purpose in life -- to be a lying little prick.
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
Hadron
> Kier wrote:
>
>> The EeePC works, you lying little prick.
>
> That's flatline's purpose in life -- to be a lying little prick.
Well ,well.
If it's not LLoyd and Harry shilling each others deep insightful posts.
Kier
So what?
>
> As for Linux?
> People are removing Linux and installing Windows as soon as they get the
> device.
Some may. Many are not.
>
> So yes, the hardware works rather nicely.
> It's Linux that's the problem.
No, it isn't, you lying little prick.
--
Kier
Kier
I've seen nothing but insults from you, and certainly nothing
'insightful', while you shill for flatfish.
--
Kier
The Ghost In The Machine
<val...@tiscali.co.uk>
wrote
on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:44:03 +0000
<pan.2008.02.27...@tiscali.co.uk>:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:04:35 -0500, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:51:14 +0000, Kier wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:54:23 -0500, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
[snippage for brevity]
>>>> Sooner or later one of these manufacturers will make one
>>>> of these devices that actually works.
>>>
>>> The EeePC works, you lying little prick.
>>
>> Sure it does, with Windows loaded on it which is why Asus
>> is releasing a Windows version.
>
> So what?
Clearly Moshe thinks EeePC w/Windows works better than
EeePC w/Linux. Presumably this is because Moshe
thinks Linux software doesn't meet peoples' needs.
(Meets my needs fine, though I can't say they're all
that normal. But Windows is rather confining to me.)
>
>>
>> As for Linux?
>> People are removing Linux and installing Windows as soon
>> as they get the device.
>
> Some may. Many are not.
>
>>
>> So yes, the hardware works rather nicely.
>> It's Linux that's the problem.
>
> No, it isn't, you lying little prick.
>
Depends on the problem. ;-) If the problem is that
one isn't getting infectious viruses, then Linux
is indeed a problem. (Of course, most will want
to *prevent* themselves getting such viruses.)
--
#191, ewi...@earthlink.net
Q: "Why is my computer doing that?"
A: "Don't do that and you'll be fine."
Moshe Goldfarb
> Clearly Moshe thinks EeePC w/Windows works better than
> EeePC w/Linux. Presumably this is because Moshe
> thinks Linux software doesn't meet peoples' needs.
People want Windows, they don't want Linux hencforth the first thing people
are doing with these things is blowing Linux away and installing Windows.
Read some of the help sites and see for yourself.
Personally, I would say Linux probably works fine on it but Linux isn't
what people want.
> (Meets my needs fine, though I can't say they're all
> that normal. But Windows is rather confining to me.)
You're posting in COLA, that should answer your question about normalcy :)