On 2007-07-11, Roy Lanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The S73 series BenQ JoyBook I have mentioned is priced > around 1000.- USD in Indonesia, ergo, less than 1000.- > euro. (And trust me: it's more than "semi-tolerable.")
And double that in .fi... if it were available. It's also still rather big with a 14.1" screen... The S61 (w/ 12.1") that I found by googling for the former is more to the size, although still quite heavy (1.5kg). The UMPCs are more to my liking than normal laptops actually, but still not good enough (too crappy screen size to device size ratio). I'd like something that can be carried in a (rather big) pocket (pocket book sized), but not as small and useless as crappy PDAs or iDiotphones (haven't seen anything "smart" about them yet). > I am on runit (daemontools alike--just better IMO) for > 70-80%. Doesn't help when the system tries to load every single kernel module that it can find -- and ends up placing the devices in random order. (But then again, Linux has become totally useless recently with all HDs always in random order, even without the module lottery.) > It's a trade-off: non notebook hard disks are not built > for frequent power off: the electricity then eaten for > manufacturing new- /recycling old disks. The disks spin up approximately once a day, which they would in any case if it was easier to actually shut down the computer without shutting down the programs... which Linux doesn't make easy enough, unlike Windows. (And one could optimise the spin downs a bit with an option to noflushd (or an awful hack that I'm too lazy to write) to have longer delays for spindown during the day than night.) > Why do you think such a thing, and others similar, > need to be put in the statusbar? It's a nice place. You could also use some (unicode) block character hacks for a rather compact bar display... or a systray icon. OSD can be nice for warnings and such, but I wouldn't want the screen constantly littered with information. -- Tuomo
