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.
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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