Archive for November 2006
In short – I want one.
So what is it? It’s one of these:
I quite often have by pc up and running, but I’m only using it to browse the web, keep and eye on my e-mails, and listen to online music or my collection of mp3’s. With this I could only boot my pc when I need to spend the evening on it, the rest of the time I could just boot the Linutop. Since it runs from the onboard memory, which is much faster than a hard disk (it doesn’t even have a hard disk), I could even switch it on and off at will as the boot time will be fairly swift.
According to the Register it’s going to cost “£190 plus shipping”. As yet there isn’t a date when it will be released, but I’m going to keep an eye on the web site.
Having recently signed up to Facebook (please don’t hate me) I’ve been trying to add friends, and generally do the rest of the stuff that you do on facebook. Except I ran into a problem with the image verification process.
It always failed after I submitted the verification code, saying I hadn’t entered the correct code. Friends I spoke to didn’t have any problems so it must be me or something to do with my setup here at home.
On a hunch I by-passed Squid and was able to successfully complete an image verification. To test this wasn’t a fluke I reset things back and it failed. I by-passed squid and again it worked.
So if your having problems with facebook and use squid to do your web caching, then be aware of this problem. I’m going to investigate this and try and work out why this is happening as I never have any problems with other sites.
I just took the The LONG Scientific Personality Test and it thinks I’m an ISTJ.
Having read the description I’m inclined to agree with the results. I can think of a few instances in my life that match each of the traits of an ISTJ.
Have a go and see if it matches what you think of yourself.
