Posts by Colossus

Über-zombie cookies give us the fear

Not So Fast ...

Some applications/plugins cease to work properly if you remove write permissions, hence the temporary filesystem method.

Solutions are Straightforward

This has been around for years. In Linux, one straightforward solution is to create a small temporary filesystem for flash related storage, the contents of which won't survive a re-boot.

Some good solutions (including the above) are explained in this thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=232855

Miniature Apple display spotted in the wild

Been done before, a lot

> "How about installing it in an upgraded keyboard, where it could be a context-aware or user-definable hotkey for launching apps, controlling media, displaying system stats, flicking through slideshows of the kids, or the like..."

Not exactly a new idea. Someone (can't remember who) had something similar way back in the mid-80s, although I don't think it was touch-screen. I designed and built a prototype one of those (it even used a small LCD display) for exactly that purpose in the late-80s as a University project. Wrote my own operating system for it 'n' all. Of course it was buggy as hell and broke frequently, so it never went anywhere ....

Now I remember ...

... It was Apricot Computers that did it, in 1983. Well, in the commercial world, anyway.

The military had been using something even better (sorta touch screen, but without the actual "touch") for at least a decade before that!