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While I love Linux and use it for both work and home. I'm for Newegg. A policy is a policy and not all customers are skillful enough to reload a different OS. I don't think any Linux vendors(Dell, System76,etc) will happily accept returns after you installed Windows on it. The best could be that we can buy machines with Linux pre-loaded, or certain distro certified. For instance, we choose a PC/laptop, and it's certified with Windows7 and Ubuntu 12.04 both, then you're safe to choose either, otherwise you're on your own. Not to mention Newegg is just a market place instead of the vendor.

by minipc i think it's trying to be a portable PC? 2GB NAND might be too limited for any PC, thus the storage. If it's for a IP STB, you still need storage for media files. without a wireless keyboard/mouse, how can I use it as a consumer electronic device? The rest are actually good example, i wish it exposes more IO pins for robotic and industrial usage, but meanwhile the chip needs to be industrial-qualified, not all tablet/cellphone chips can be used in industrial, if at all

what's your exact point? I'm in talk with some minipc vendors myself and am not sure where the market is for that.

what's the market for this thingy? you need a larger storage, a wireless keyboard/mouse, and assuming a hdmi-display is somewhere ready for use, with all that i could just bring a 7" tablet or a 10" netbook, or a smartphone. the only place i see is schools, every student can carry one and use it in the computer lab for projects., but then it might get lost, and you probably end up with more management issues comparing to a thin-client setting or a multi-head configuration. in short, i don't see a good market for it, no matter how cheap that is.

The world is based on statistics, in that sense everything is normal, and special, in the meantime.

could it be somehow the linux display driver damaged that screen? while I use linux but I do think newegg has a point. A policy is a policy and newegg can not verify all those 100+ linux distro on the market.

AirOS and everybody else has WDS these days, Mesh is different that uses AD-HOC mode(check meraki.com, google olsr, 802.11s etc). Routerboard is actually also great hardware vendor, and cheap too. However it's not in US, and it sells licenses with its software with a premium, which is not attractive to customers, esp those in other developing countries. UBNT wins the battle easily with great hardware, and most importantly, free software going with it.

I used his products since 2008, very cost-effective and neat, it also tells you that there is money to be made in hardware, or software-hardware combined business at SV, not just facebook like companies there. Meraki who is doing mesh wifi, to some extent similar to UBNT, did not do well somehow, even with google's backup in the early stage. On the other hand, UBUT does everything Wifi, but mesh.

still in favor of a self-hosted solution and don't mind to pay for that, with that you can compete against the legacy video conference guys, e.g. cisco, polycom(where you set up your private system with their offering, though you now use PC to replace the hardware part).

free for 15 people meeting, that's like 95% of the market, and I wonder if they can sustain the business model?

when we use this kind of online conference tools, any concern on internal IP(say, it's recorded without your knowledge)? I would like to buy similar software to host my own conferences instead, though I don't think anyone is doing that.

I was told the remote team can be managed remotely should not exceed 6 employees, more than that you need a team leader or a local manager.

to call a low-end x86 box with 2GB NAND a PC?

I think this is the same these days, due to smarter compiler.

we do live in a hypocrisy world, esp in US, just embrace that to make life easier.

I am wondering, they have a database that connects your name with the OSS project you're on(or any projects for that matter)? and it pops out once they input your passport number? quite surprised.

I agree, sorry.

what is HSI? these days I have to join various groups/lists/ircs/etc to interact with embedded world, but nothing like hacknews to spur innovation and new ideas... i have been thinking about building a vendor-neutral site for folks that want to bridge web/UI to embedded devices.

pretty nice summary. i noticed most similar postings are all about js/python/ruby here, i'm an embedded linux hacker and i wish there is a place we can talk about both hardware and software for products, not just the web, maybe it's time to create one?

for the memory portion, if the stated is true, why not postgresql just use them directly? that's fixed values based on the hardware it runs on.

great stuff, bookmarked for next project.

sigh , i read HN all day long and have no time left for books.

seriously though, i use books as a reference and just hack along, i mean technical books, for non-tech books, i have not read them for years.

like this. i was bothered by a caller so much that I had to switch my phone to a new number. yes I'm on the do-not-call list, but the calling company, or more likely some agent it contracts, does not care. the company is named italkBB and i was also getting calls from dish network for months after i ended the contract with them. there is Dell too, after i bought laptop from it i started t o get calls from them, I told them I'm not interested in their calls, but once a while i still get the call, guess it's because i was a customer?

use Marvell's sheevaplug is better off for this. beaglebone is really for industrial control, beagleboard are for generic purpose while pandaboard is for mobile computing. SD cards are made for consumer class cameras, but you can buy industrial level SLC SD, for $50 per 4GB, in that case I will just go with SSD.

this is pretty decent, like it!

yes it's this one, I bought one for him so he can read anywhere he wants to, this is a great book for his age.

I chose python and html/css/javascript for my kid, who is 9, the python game book got him started and now I was challenged at dinner table by various Python module questions...

first thing after he started html, is: why can't html have if-else?

why is that? esp on pastebin that is.

does it have anything to do with flot which is a jquery charting plugin?

i'm surprised that people are arguing with this kind of questions here, totally a waste of time, gosh.

why does this have anything to do with hacknews?

on the exception handler part, i don't think you're forced to use c++'s try-throw-catch, you can still safely use the C-style exception methods, after all, c can be used as a subset of c++, though not 100% of the time.