"George White" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I'm not happy about leaving a laptop on 24 hours a day, in any case.
We do it routinely. Laptops are very commonly used to control
instruments and log data on oceanographic vessels. One benefit
is that they are immume to the usual power glitches.
Thanks for that, George. The one time I left a laptop on doing something
the HD didn't work the next day. Ever since then I have equated laptop
and fragile. Of course, in this case you might not even need an HD.
There is already an ample supply of netbooks with broken screens.
<http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee> gives the status of freeBSD on the
EeePC. What I'm not sure about is the long-term supply of replacement
batteries.
Again, batteries wouldn't matter here. But I think it's the router-like
form factor I would prefer, and a serial port is essential.
Thanks for the information, though.
Cheers,
David
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