Published by Robert Pogson March 8th, 2011
in technology.
The Register has a review of a tablet distributed by Dixon’s a chain in the UK.
The tablet is a bit unusual:
- 16:9 screen is best used in landscape, and
- Android 2.2 instead of 3.0.
Price is good at 250 pounds.
What interests me though is a chart of battery life v some netbooks. The netbooks such as the MSI Wind have twice the size of battery but much less lifetime on constant video playback.
The Dixonian tablet lasted 380 minutes with a 24 W-h battery and the netbooks lasted about 300 minutes with a 48 W-h battery. Power consumption ratio is 48/24 X 380/300 = 9.6W/3.8W, better than 2:1. I am surprised the ratio is not larger but we don’t know what the software was doing for each and how cores were managed.
That’s what ARM Tegra2 does for small, cheap, and portable computers. It makes them smaller, cheaper, lighter, longer lasting but still powerful.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson March 8th, 2011
in technology.
Where I worked previously, the default configuration of the Sophos software was to block anything MediaPlayer did. I deleted it entirely from our images and installed VLC in its place. Now we read that there is once again a simple remote code execution exploit in MediaPlayer. Of course, when we switched to Debian GNU/Linux, I had no more sleepless nights worrying about bad guys taking over our PCs.
How many more examples do we need before we all quit using that other OS and its monstrous design?
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson March 8th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
A reporter for Sky News went into the thick of it in Az Zawiyah. I have never seen a reporter more unconcerned for safety and the reporter is a woman, the fairer sex…
see Sky News
If Alex Crawford survives events, someone should give her a medal. She goes everywhere: peaceful protestors marching and fired upon by Gaddafi’s elite forces, riding in an ambulance with one of the wounded to check out a hospital’s trauma rooms, riding around town in a thin-skinned vehicle as Gaddafi attacks in force, and being close enough to the paths of bullets to hear the “buzz”. She does all this without a quiver in her voice. Most people would wet themselves.
The army of Gaddafi seems unable to make a dent in the city. The army is too small and the defenders too dedicated. The defenders gather equipment and ammunition from the attacking forces. They have had a few soldiers defect to their side as well. Don’t believe Gaddafi’s stories that he has control of Az Zawiyah.
Thanks to Alex Crawford, we know what is happening.
- Robert Pogson
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