The irony of the piece is that below it is a link to another Guardian
article about how Facebook have pulled Beacon, the application that does
this nonsense... Back in November...
Lee
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 19:30 +, alan c wrote:
> The Guardian Technology section today has a heavily negative
> I'm sure they will consider improving the system for future use, but
> for the price of the hardware and the fact it works, its pretty good.
> The display problem is a but dumb though. As for the default password,
> the OEM for Dapp. isn't the best, so I imagine they just did that.
It's not du
>
> I did wonder about that. This PC uses a solid state drive. Is that not
> similar to an SD card and hence will fail after x amount of write
> operations?
>
> Chris
>
True, but then the OS has been tweaked so that it doesn't write to the
flash memory (it's not really an SSD is it?) unless it
> I noticed a little Tux on the back on my SanDisk flash drive packet
> and "Linux" under the system requirements bit.
>
> And of course it does work fine under Linux, except the all the U3
> junk they come pre-installed with that is.
>
Dave,
There is a (sadly Windows only) utility that will r
