this is crazy...
It's an old concept just taken moden technology to achieve it.
Brain cells driving around a robot, this was 17 years ago
i am both fascinated and terrified...
Finally starting the switch to Linux, I gave Ubuntu a try on my Windows 7 desktop, using a bootable thumb drive. I purchased a Lenovo laptop from Amazon with Linux Ubuntu installed as the OS, to use in conjunction with my desktop machine during the transition period. Goodbye Microsoft, hello Linux.
Will you also be installing Linux on this older device?
I may later, or might get a new machine. The Windows 7 machine I'm using has an Intel i7 at 3.4 GHz and 16GB of RAM. I might wait to see if the market will allow for more Linux computers to hit the market, increasing my choices, as others become disaffected with Microsoft, and get something with Linux only as an upgrade.
I also have programs on my Windows 7 machine that might not work with Linux.
Luckily Linux is a lot less bloated and slow than Windows is so a mid range refurb would already be enough to get things going, anything i5/i7 8th/9th/10th gen would be fine as would AMD's first, second and third gen Ryzen chips be.
Just make sure it has somesort of SSD, HDD's are usable under Linux but quite a bit slower.
As for new machines with Linux pre-installed
en.wikipedia.org
Just make sure it has somesort of SSD, HDD's are usable under Linux but quite a bit slower.
As for new machines with Linux pre-installed
System76 - Wikipedia
Thanks, my current Windows desktop has 3 SATA Seagate Barracuda HDDs with 22TB of storage, with 14 total partitions. I'll probably get a separate desktop for Linux from System 76. Once again, thanks for the link.Luckily Linux is a lot less bloated and slow than Windows is so a mid range refurb would already be enough to get things going, anything i5/i7 8th/9th/10th gen would be fine as would AMD's first, second and third gen Ryzen chips be.
Just make sure it has somesort of SSD, HDD's are usable under Linux but quite a bit slower.
As for new machines with Linux pre-installed
System76 - Wikipedia
enjoy Linuxing!
Macbook Neo seems to be selling out fast.
So a Pentium II machine kicked the bucket, I suspect the capacitors on the mainboard are to blame, so out with the old stuff, I'll recap the board and probably the powersuply as well but that's for after I retire or something..
And there it is a 1990's InWin A500 casing, 1mm thick steel everywhere, little rust here and there and the plastic is a tad yellow but that has its charm I guess.
And there's a Sempron 145 machine without casing.. Geforce 315 OEM gfx card, 1 TB drive and the board has floppy and IDE available... so yep the A500 now holds a 2.8Ghz Sempron 145, it's running XP, somehow it kinda sorta fits.
Rather crazy that a more than 30 year old casing design can still be used for modern hardware..
And there it is a 1990's InWin A500 casing, 1mm thick steel everywhere, little rust here and there and the plastic is a tad yellow but that has its charm I guess.
And there's a Sempron 145 machine without casing.. Geforce 315 OEM gfx card, 1 TB drive and the board has floppy and IDE available... so yep the A500 now holds a 2.8Ghz Sempron 145, it's running XP, somehow it kinda sorta fits.
Rather crazy that a more than 30 year old casing design can still be used for modern hardware..
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when will people learn you don't trust usb keys with anything important 
an e-voting projecting in Switzerland hit a snag when due to issues with the USB key they won't able to decrypt about 2300 votes because 3 usb keys failed though they article doesn't mention that the nature of the failure beyond saying they had the correct code.
perhaps using a smart card or something like a yubikey would have been been a better option - probably the latter.
get one of the nfc models and it will enter the value for you nice and easy.
www.theregister.com
an e-voting projecting in Switzerland hit a snag when due to issues with the USB key they won't able to decrypt about 2300 votes because 3 usb keys failed though they article doesn't mention that the nature of the failure beyond saying they had the correct code.
perhaps using a smart card or something like a yubikey would have been been a better option - probably the latter.
get one of the nfc models and it will enter the value for you nice and easy.
Swiss e-vote snafu leaves 2,048 ballots unreadable
: Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe
www.theregister.com
I don't think they were being used a backups per se but held the decryption key to unlock the ballot files which is why a device such as a Yubi key would be a viable option.
1600 workers sacked the blame going to AI
Brutal moment Atlassian boss Mike Cannon-Brookes fires 1,600 workers over email: 'It is the right decision' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15638003/atlassian-job-cuts.html
Brutal moment Atlassian boss Mike Cannon-Brookes fires 1,600 workers over email: 'It is the right decision' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15638003/atlassian-job-cuts.html
Atlassian has been on the slide for quite sometime iirc,
Price went up, product quality went down.
Also had a free community edition that was a good gateway in till they killed it off.
I think that's a name I've seen far too much off recently
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