Use an OpenPandora as a Boot Device

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Jack Kelly
Tags: openpandora

I recently bought myself an OpenPandora. It’s a surprisingly well-made device, given that it’s a massive volunteer effort, and unlike pretty much every other arm-based handheld or tablet on the market, it’s not locked down for no good reason. Having a full GNU/Linux system lets it do some really interesting things - it can expose one of its two SD cards as a USB mass storage device. The obvious thing to do is to put SYSLINUX on it and use it to boot other systems. Here’s how I prepared an old 4GB SDHC card. Pretty much all the commands require root, so go and run sudo -i now.

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Religion for Atheists

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Jack Kelly
Tags: readings, rants

Despite the lack of recent posts under this tag, I have still been reading. It’s just that it’s all either been for my courses or unremarkable. I just finished reading Alain de Botton’s Religion for Atheists. Despite being fascinated by ritual and structure, I found it thoroughly disappointing. (Aside: if you want to read a rant, it seems the book was torn to shreds some time ago.)

Probably the most boring question you can ask about religion is whether or not the whole thing is “true.”

That is the book’s opening sentence and premise, and it is phrased very poorly.

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