> But what happens when the iphone hits the pavement / > the contract still needs to be honored or repackaged > ??
Hardware can be replaced. Data can be (or may not be) recovered. But if you are running Windows, all the programs need to be re-installed. A royal pain in the rear. Worse, if you forgot to keep the CD/DVD or if you purchased the program on-line and forgot the URL or password, tough luck! If the netbooks do become popular, their high portability (but too big to be placed inside your pocket) also make them much more likely to be lost. Thus, we probably should seriously investigate the option of running "installed" OpenSolaris from a USB HD. Please see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=86451&tstart=0 One of the amazing things about OpenSolaris is that, I don't seem to notice any difference between running from an external USB HD and from the internal HD. The same, however, cannot be said about SuSE or Ubuntu (the two Linux distros that I have tried). Unlike os2008.11, the differences in responsiveness are quite noticeable. Perhaps someone can try to explain why this is so? I think this may be related to ZFS, but I still don't know exactly how. BTW, it may not be wise to install OpenSolaris or any OS into a USB flash stick. Most of the default configs write /tmp files to swap, and, unless you modify your vfstab/fstab file, your USB flash may get fried in a hurry. :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
