Wheee!

[mdlbear]

Thanks to a Fry's loss-leader -- a 5-port GigE switch for $7/port -- last weekend's cable-stringing, and a new hole in the garage-to-bedroom wall, I now have Gigabit Ethernet all the way back to my recording machine. This makes me happy, and will make slinging audio files back and forth a lot faster. With a little more work, I'll be able to run the line out from the onboard soundcard back to the office over some of the extra Cat5 pairs I've freed up.

Apart from a bit of easily-corrected stupidity with my edits to the boot menu, a bit of strangeness with the display configuration, and the inability of the machines to see the built-in WiFi card, the tablet computers at work are actually working. They'll be good enough for a demo, anyway.

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[ravan.livejournal.com]

Apart from a bit of easily-corrected stupidity with my edits to the boot menu, a bit of strangeness with the display configuration, and the inability of the machines to see the built-in WiFi card, the tablet computers at work are actually working. They'll be good enough for a demo, anyway.

*drool*

[mdlbear]

Much less droolworthy than you'd think -- we're talking 1GHz Via CPU, a noisy little fan, and a weight of 4-5 lbs. These things are pretty old.

The new Nokia tablets are much sexier, designed from the ground up to run Linux, and actually supported by a company that's still in business.