Posts by Noth

OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations

Re: I love OpenBSD

It really isn't difficult. I presume you have grub on your UEFI system, so create an entry for OpenBSD with chainloader /EFI/OpenBSD/BOOTX64.EFI in it, then install OpenBSD in a dedicated partition, copy BOOTX64.EFI to the EFI path, and it should boot. You can configure your global swap and global home to be used, this is ext2fs or some version of? OpenBSD can read/write that. Just ajust your user UID/GID in OpenBSD to use it. Nothing complicated in all this, for someone who multiboots.

'Doubly unacceptable' Swiss vegan forces his way into the army

No such thing as a Swiss general ... in peacetime

By the way, the only time a senior officer gets to become a general in Switzerland is if the country is a war, and he has to get elected as such by the parliament. I kid you not. In peacetime the highest rank is Chief of Army, ie Chief of Staff.

HP doorsteps Apple shoppers at the altar of dreams

Re: Ignoring that Apple hasn't updated most of its line for a couple years

That's IF Apple bother to refresh their line at all. They seem to have lost all will to do so in the last few years... MacBooks of any kind still have horribly large bezels, no attempt to make a machine at less than 2lbs / 900g, the Mac Pro is using completely outdated hardware, there's really nothing of any interest apart from the OS.

I agree Windows is what will prevent any Mac user from buying outside the Apple sphere. HP are large enough to do something about that but never choose to... As if adding a decent GUI to a UNIX variant was completely beyond their means!

Newest Royal Navy warship weighs as much as 120 London buses

Could we please avoid measurements from the Sun / Daily Mail school of journalism catering to retarted? Olympic swimming pools and London buses... You can do much better than this, you know your readership.

Google SHOCK! Snaps up Motorola phone biz for $12.5bn

What about the Atrix line and accessories?

I'm most worried about the Atrix Lapdock with this buyout. How to know they'll keep up this fantastic concept?

Sony goes slim with the Vaio Z laptop

Once again, they've upped the bar

Only Sony does this so well: 13" 1920x1080 (yes it's available as an option, take that Apple 1x), 1.2kg (take that Apple 2x), and it has two megabatteries (take that Apple 3x!). Plus you can connect 4 screens to the dock. These are features that warrant top dollar (and the dollar being so low, as is the pound....), it kicks the opposition to the gutter. But you have to need those features, not everyone does.

Oh and the graphics are hybrid, so you get a discrete as well as a builtin gfx chip. Make no mistake, this is the Rolls of ultraportables.

Discover OS X's hidden artistic side

Windows Icons?

The Windows iconset probably dates back to the NT port of OPENSTEP back when NeXT had gone all software and were porting their dev environment to various platforms (Solaris amongst them).

Palm reveals 'secret' smartphone buddy

An ideal device for the road warrior and sysadmin

Palm have actually got it right. And they have mentionned there's no reason it won't sync with other smartphones with a bit of work. I bet you can use a candybar phone for GPRS/EDGE/UMTS access via bluetooth and it provides wifi onboard. The size is perfect for travel and the weight is too (even if it could be lower, but this is 1st gen). It'll do all the stuff your smartphone will do so you've got your office apps, and it's not windows so much less of a nightmare to administrate for corporate types. Throw out those 3+ Kg laptops that sales/execs use on the road and just get these. It'll save on back problems. And for sysadmins it's the perfect cheap and useable device for running around the office. VPN tools will appear very quickly is Palm play ball and open up the underlying linux OS as well as any other linux commandline tool you can think of. at 500 or even 600$ it's a steal compared to a Vaio TX or Asus 10". So long as the exchange rate doesn't cripple it in Europe it'll do well over here for all of us who spend 1+ hours in trains every day

Sony unveils Vaio TZ notebook range

no flash HDD?

You obviously haven't tried one of the previous TX/T series... these babies are made for extralong battery life, hence no blueray drive and no discrete graphics which soak up too much energy. Just a shame the japanese option of a 32Gbit flash drive combined with the regular s-ata hdd / dvd drive is missing. Europe gets shafted once again...