Less Is More: OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One
My writeup of the new Acer Aspire One is up on www.undeadly.org.
"We are certainly entering an era of "small is beautiful", at least when it comes to sub-notebooks. Numerous manufacturers are producing these now, as witness this comparison. The Asus EeePC (some models), the Acer Aspire One reviewed here, and the rumoured Lenovo U8 all use the Intel Atom CPU, which is "dual threaded". This looks like a dual-core, and runs GENERIC.MP. Although it's not as powerful as a dual-core, it's close enough that it's faster than many a few-years-old full size laptop. I've been using the Acer for a few weeks, including on a trans-atlantic flight, after several years with a much-heavier full-size industrial-strength notebook...."
Read the full story here.
"We are certainly entering an era of "small is beautiful", at least when it comes to sub-notebooks. Numerous manufacturers are producing these now, as witness this comparison. The Asus EeePC (some models), the Acer Aspire One reviewed here, and the rumoured Lenovo U8 all use the Intel Atom CPU, which is "dual threaded". This looks like a dual-core, and runs GENERIC.MP. Although it's not as powerful as a dual-core, it's close enough that it's faster than many a few-years-old full size laptop. I've been using the Acer for a few weeks, including on a trans-atlantic flight, after several years with a much-heavier full-size industrial-strength notebook...."
Read the full story here.
It's true what they say about airport security
... and Bruce Schneier helped to prove it.
"Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease..."
There's nothing I can add to this. While you're there, check the other security-related articles on the site.
There's nothing I can add to this. While you're there, check the other security-related articles on the site.
Django Reverse-Engineer from Existing Legacy Tables
I've been playing a bit with Django, a Python-based web framework. One thing that people starting in Django seem to miss out on is the standard "how to I make model classes from my existing database tables"? That's not because you can't do this, but only because most of the newb tutorials start from the other end. It turns out that you can do this easily using "manage.py inspectdb". And you're done, at least most of your work is done. This reverse engineering is not as complete as that in Seam (actually Hibernate) - no compound primary keys, and (presumably because Python's db support is less general than Java's JDBC) it only works on a few databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server, IIRC), but for those database it does the bulk of the work for you.
So, this post is a bit away from my usual topics. I admit it, I'm mainly posting this here in hopes that somebody else using a web search will find the answer more quickly.
So, this post is a bit away from my usual topics. I admit it, I'm mainly posting this here in hopes that somebody else using a web search will find the answer more quickly.
"An Open Letter to my Friends on the Left"
I wanted to write such a thing, but Steven Horwitz beat me to it.