Posts by Dave Lawton 222 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Aug 2007
No, I got an Samsung Galaxy S2 to replace my HTC Desire, and a second one a little later (long story), gave me nothing but pure love for the device, which I also had when I owned Nokia phones. Now I'm on my second S2 and I have nothing but good things to say about them.
In my circle of friends, family and work colleagues, getting highly annoyed with an iPhone seems to be a common occurrence, they all got Androids because of their bad experiences, not to show off.
FIFY
I thought things couldn't get worse when T-Mobile was subsumed by Orange, but they did :(
I have major history with BT, every single thing they've ever done for me, they've managed to screw up, so you can imagine my despair when I heard that they were taking over EE.
I just wish we had proper alternatives, and a regulator with teeth, sigh.
A few things you may not know about :-
http://www.armini.co.uk/iMX6doc.pdf
http://www.riscository.com/2015/armx6-formally-announced/#more-3548
http://www.riscository.com/2014/show-report-london-2014/ Richard Keefe - Impression-X
http://www.mw-software.com/ ArtWorks 2.X2
http://www.davidpilling.net/ovationpro/opr.html
HSBC retired the RSA tokens, and replaced them by a device the size of a small calculator which you have to use the keys to enter a PIN, before it will generate the 'random' number to enter into the form on the website.
I have to have 2 because they couldn't make two different accounts work with the same device.
How about 6TB (2 £TB disks) as 1 virtual disk with XFS on top.
I could only find a command line solution (complete with errors :( ),
so it became a suck it & see.
Why did I need all that disk space - for a new MythTV box I built, because the old one (with 2TB) ran out of space so often, I became utterly fed up up with trying to work out what I could delete next.
3G coverage, huh, what about delivering enough signal everywhere in the UK, so that the phones don't flatten their batteries just trying to enable voice calls. All of the operators, I'm looking at you, don't ignore your customers when they tell you there's an issue, and don't LIE when responding.
You want an alternative ?
Try NetSurf, currently V3.1, with nightly builds for those who like living on the edge.
No, it doesn't do everything the major browsers do, but if you can code in C, the devs will be happy to talk to you.
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
Steve B
Unless you've passed retiring age, you're NEVER too old, & probably not then either :)
Quiz list for you to answer, here, or to yourself.
Where do you live ?
Are you prepared to travel as far as 200 miles, or further for a role ?
Are you prepared to stay away for 1 week, 2 weeks, or 4 weeks as required ?
Will you accept short term, i.e. 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months long contracts ?
If the answer to those is yes, then put your CV on Jobserve, & Jobsite, and create a Linked-In profile.
Start applying for jobs, don't use the bulk apply, don't bother with cover letters.
There is plenty of stuff out there, this week I have had a dozen or so roles offered, with the stand-out one paying 380GBP per day, and on my home doorstep.
Good luck.
Some links for you :-
Google chromebook crouton
How to Install Linux on a Chromebook
HTH
@BillG
But Intel HAD an ARM licence. They inherited it from DEC, along with DEC's StrongARM, but Intel didn't like advertising a competitors' product, so they called their fabbed version X-scale.
Unfortunately for Intel, the first few iterations were much worse performance than DEC's, so there was a drift away of users (not end users) to other ARM licensees, and Intel eventually sold off the division.
I think it's called Marvel now, BICBW.
The story is much more complex than that, but I think I've covered the essential bits.
I doubt that ARM would sell out to Intel, not in their shareholders' best interests.
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