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Android on newer devices
The Freerunner is OK for its age, but it lacks a keyboard, a camera, 3G, and support from the official Android Market. Plus, it runs Android 1.6, whereas all the current phones run 2.0.1 or 2.1. So with considerable trepidation at the move to somewhat...
Android on FreeRunner
Android or FreeRunner, that is the question for those who want a mostly-open-source cell phone. At least it used to be. Now that Openmoko have all but discontinued development on the Freerunner hardware, the future looks more and more like Android. And...
Islands in the Stream
Some will say that Apple's iPad is the be-all and the end-all of portable computing. I say nay. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Apple. But look at the history. Datapads are not a new idea - Alan Kay's DynaBook and Mark Weiser's ideas of Ubiquito...
JavaOne without Moscone Center?
After a very long and uncomfortable silence, Oracle, having passed the last(?) regulatory hurdle to their acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today announced that the JavaOne conference will in fact go ahead - this year. It will be co-located, but not m...
Another Top 10
Here we go again: FBI fabricated "terror emergencies" to justify illegal monitoring of phone calls Bruce Schnier reveals how U.S. demands for monitoring capabilities lead to the Chinese(?) hackers hacking Google ACTA, who taketh away the rights ...

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Re: Less Is More: OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One
If you run "apmd -C" it will try to keep the machine "Cool" by lowering the CPU speed when you're not doing much. Other than that, I didn't do anything special.
Re: Microsoft Bites Me Again
Ahh, thanks for the good news!
Re: Less Is More: OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One
Hi, My aspire one's fan is driving me nuts on openbsd. Did you do anything to make it silent?

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1	Alternate Realities: A Physicist looks at American Politics I'm neither an American nor a Conservative, but this article in American Conservative is must reading for anyone who wants to think about what's happening in Washington today.	18-Apr-2007
2	Shakespearean Sonnet Fragment Composed to show how easy it is to compose a sonnet, this was penned in a few minutes. While oft we open windows in our house And suffer from a broken hinge or rail How greater vex'd when with computer mouse We try to open Windows, and we fail! An...	16-May-2004