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by xxiao 14y ago
While I love Linux and use it for both work and home. I'm for Newegg. A policy is a policy and not all customers are skillful enough to reload a different OS. I don't think any Linux vendors(Dell, System76,etc) will happily accept returns a
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by xxiao 14y ago
by minipc i think it's trying to be a portable PC? 2GB NAND might be too limited for any PC, thus the storage. If it's for a IP STB, you still need storage for media files. without a wireless keyboard/mouse, how can I use it as a consumer e
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by xxiao 14y ago
what's your exact point? I'm in talk with some minipc vendors myself and am not sure where the market is for that.
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by xxiao 14y ago
what's the market for this thingy? you need a larger storage, a wireless keyboard/mouse, and assuming a hdmi-display is somewhere ready for use, with all that i could just bring a 7" tablet or a 10" netbook, or a smartphone. the only place
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by xxiao 14y ago
The world is based on statistics, in that sense everything is normal, and special, in the meantime.
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by xxiao 14y ago
could it be somehow the linux display driver damaged that screen? while I use linux but I do think newegg has a point. A policy is a policy and newegg can not verify all those 100+ linux distro on the market.
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by xxiao 14y ago
AirOS and everybody else has WDS these days, Mesh is different that uses AD-HOC mode(check meraki.com, google olsr, 802.11s etc). Routerboard is actually also great hardware vendor, and cheap too. However it's not in US, and it sells licen
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by xxiao 14y ago
I used his products since 2008, very cost-effective and neat, it also tells you that there is money to be made in hardware, or software-hardware combined business at SV, not just facebook like companies there. Meraki who is doing mesh wifi,
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by xxiao 14y ago
still in favor of a self-hosted solution and don't mind to pay for that, with that you can compete against the legacy video conference guys, e.g. cisco, polycom(where you set up your private system with their offering, though you now use PC
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by xxiao 14y ago
free for 15 people meeting, that's like 95% of the market, and I wonder if they can sustain the business model? when we use this kind of online conference tools, any concern on internal IP(say, it's recorded without your knowledge)? I would
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by xxiao 14y ago
I was told the remote team can be managed remotely should not exceed 6 employees, more than that you need a team leader or a local manager.
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by xxiao 14y ago
to call a low-end x86 box with 2GB NAND a PC?
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by xxiao 14y ago
I think this is the same these days, due to smarter compiler.
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by xxiao 14y ago
we do live in a hypocrisy world, esp in US, just embrace that to make life easier. I am wondering, they have a database that connects your name with the OSS project you're on(or any projects for that matter)? and it pops out once they input
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by xxiao 14y ago
I agree, sorry.
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by xxiao 14y ago
what is HSI? these days I have to join various groups/lists/ircs/etc to interact with embedded world, but nothing like hacknews to spur innovation and new ideas... i have been thinking about building a vendor-neutral site for folks that wan
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by xxiao 14y ago
pretty nice summary. i noticed most similar postings are all about js/python/ruby here, i'm an embedded linux hacker and i wish there is a place we can talk about both hardware and software for products, not just the web, maybe it's time to
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by xxiao 14y ago
for the memory portion, if the stated is true, why not postgresql just use them directly? that's fixed values based on the hardware it runs on.
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by xxiao 14y ago
great stuff, bookmarked for next project.
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by xxiao 14y ago
sigh , i read HN all day long and have no time left for books. seriously though, i use books as a reference and just hack along, i mean technical books, for non-tech books, i have not read them for years.
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by xxiao 14y ago
like this. i was bothered by a caller so much that I had to switch my phone to a new number. yes I'm on the do-not-call list, but the calling company, or more likely some agent it contracts, does not care. the company is named italkBB and i
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by xxiao 14y ago
use Marvell's sheevaplug is better off for this. beaglebone is really for industrial control, beagleboard are for generic purpose while pandaboard is for mobile computing. SD cards are made for consumer class cameras, but you can buy indust
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by xxiao 14y ago
this is pretty decent, like it!
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by xxiao 14y ago
yes it's this one, I bought one for him so he can read anywhere he wants to, this is a great book for his age.
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by xxiao 14y ago
I chose python and html/css/javascript for my kid, who is 9, the python game book got him started and now I was challenged at dinner table by various Python module questions... first thing after he started html, is: why can't html have if-e
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by xxiao 14y ago
why is that? esp on pastebin that is.
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by xxiao 14y ago
does it have anything to do with flot which is a jquery charting plugin?
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by xxiao 14y ago
i'm surprised that people are arguing with this kind of questions here, totally a waste of time, gosh.
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by xxiao 14y ago
why does this have anything to do with hacknews?
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by xxiao 14y ago
on the exception handler part, i don't think you're forced to use c++'s try-throw-catch, you can still safely use the C-style exception methods, after all, c can be used as a subset of c++, though not 100% of the time.

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