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by lkcl 10y ago
the Allwinner A20, amazingly has Virtualisation: it's a Cortex A7 (the baby brother of the A15). google "Xen allwinner A20" for instructions on how to set it up. i'm looking forward one day to trying out android where
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by lkcl 10y ago
> Maybe if Microsoft and Intel hadn't both given up on phones maybe there's a backlash against the wintel cartel that leads people to no longer trust them. maybe the DRM-locking that goes onto the microsoft phones and intel-ba
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by lkcl 10y ago
* how compatible are all the different file-formats? * have you worked out how to bypass the DRM inherent in many of these phones? * does the device even have a means to transfer the data! ipads force you to use "cloud" services
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by lkcl 10y ago
hno has extracted and part-reverse-engineered the eGON boot ROM, it's clearly visible and available as the allwinner engineers didn't have time (or funding) to rush out anything other than what you see. imagine the shit-storm tha
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by lkcl 10y ago
> While neat in theory, this have zero practical > possibility. how so? at the time of writing almost 1,000 backers would disagree with you. > It could be improved a bit if they used a smartphone > instead of a card, but that
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by lkcl 10y ago
the DRM on HDMI is so broken - even the master key has been reverse-engineered - that it's completely open, now.
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by lkcl 10y ago
lots of people also answered this but what you're referring to is called a "Lapdock". the first ones that brought this to the mainstream were the "Motorola Atrix Lapdock". google "Atrix Lapdock Hack" for
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by lkcl 10y ago
where did you see that misquoted? there was an article on zdnet which was so badly written that i refused to put it on the campaign front page - the editor totally garbled pretty much everything about the project. the CORRECT phrase to use
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by lkcl 10y ago
> USB-C would be great though when the USB3 world stabilises - even intel can't get it right. also it'll be a while before GPL-compliant SoCs come out that have stable USB3 hardware. it's quite costly at the moment and t
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by lkcl 10y ago
there really are very few form-factors that could be considered. here's where i've exhaustively evaluated all the ones that i could find: http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture the A20 computer card
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by lkcl 10y ago
it's not PCMCIA compatible. the connectors and housings are still available - the problem is getting hold of the chipsets. yes there are a few processors around that can do PCMCIA, but they're rapidly going out of production now
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by lkcl 10y ago
> I kind of wish that this was simply transferring the > userland (maybe state) from one device to another > instead of carrying as much computing power you can > cram into a credit card sized device. yehhh that's a softwa
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by lkcl 10y ago
i'm taking that into consideration with this design - the hinge parts are separate (10mm high and about 25mm long) so that if those really do get broken you're not looking at a total replacement of all the casework parts. i&#x27
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by lkcl 10y ago
totally cool, alexander. btw look up "Flex3Drive" esp. my reports on it - best of both the direct and bowden worlds and more. the guy behind it is a quiet genius who worked in the automotive industry. regarding the laptop moni
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by lkcl 10y ago
> My phone's battery would last 2 seconds if it used the > processor my laptop would use. lucky we ain't gonna be using processors that are in the laptops that you're currently buying, then, eh? :) > And my laptop wo
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by lkcl 10y ago
hooray! you know what, i am so pleased that someone finally noticed. congratulations :) the hilarious thing is, i read that book too - i confused it initially with the computer that Hiro opens up at the beginning of Snowcrash. even more h
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by lkcl 10y ago
allwinner's a complex situation, i'll be taking the opportunity to go over and help them out. luckily, due to a lot of work by a lot of people in the software libre community, the A20 is pretty much fully reverse-engineered, so
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by lkcl 16y ago
* page loads are slower: in a web 2.0 app they're also a one-off, and if you want to you can do dynamic loading of modules. it's not that bad, due to HTTP GZ compression. * pyjamas-web is an experiment to do pure-html, executing the exact
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by lkcl 18y ago
if you want to run "hosted" mode, where the javascript and java is executed by eclipse, then yes, GWT requires eclipse. GWT itself does not have a "desktop" mode, it does not have a "desktop" version, and so GWT apps cannot themselves be ru
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by lkcl 18y ago
yep, that's right. pyjamas has three components: * a stand-alone javascript compiler * a DOM-model library that can be used to do things like getElementById * a UI-widget library that has things like HTMLPanel, Label, Tree, Image pyjamas-
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by lkcl 18y ago
thanks for the link. cappuccino looks interesting - except that it also looks _way_ out of most people's league. by that, i mean that you appear to have to abandon everything you've learned - the server-side languages you're used to - and
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by lkcl 18y ago
that's precisely the architecture that i use for the two web sites i've done, so far, and i'm currently working on two more. the only exception to the use of JSON has to be the uploading of files, where you're forced to use HTTP POST. an
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by lkcl 18y ago
well, the point of pyjamas-desktop is that you can, if you choose, run an "online" app that happens to be a stand-alone dedicated app that runs on the user's desktop. let me rephrase that :) pyjamas-desktop can be used for "online" apps jus
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by lkcl 18y ago
There are several bits of documentation auto-generated from the docstrings - here's one: http://lkcl.net/pyjamas-desktop/docs/output/docui.html this is one i made by hacking the standard python 2.5 pydoc.py to auto-generated pyjamas code,
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by lkcl 18y ago
"So, I get the excitement behind GWT and Pyjamas. " cool. very few people do! and don't forget rubyjs / rwt. "Not that the author is wrong, I just think he doesn't really treat the material very well" well, you can't have everything :)
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by lkcl 18y ago
"You end-up with different set of rules implemented twice in two very different execution environments" precisely!!! read the article - that's exactly the present situation except.... "The only way it would not be utterly stupid would be i