I have often wondered when Google would begin to develop an alternative to the windows platform - something for the rest of us...

But it is already out there in plain sight - just smuggled under the radar in the form of a "phone operating system".

Take a look at this post from Engadget - there is a video clip of a "smartbook" - an ASUS Eee PC prototype running google's "Android" on a 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. It is incredible, and the power use is so low that they didn't need to include a fan...

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sudo apt get install wget alien snmpd tcl8.3
sudo apt-get install wget alien snmpd tcl8.3
sudo sh HPasm-rpm2deb-sarge.sh
sudo dpkg -i hpasm_7.6.0-111_i386.deb
ls
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Useful Samba Networking Commands

There are several useful commands available to the Samba network admin.

When it comes to networking, there are two important points of view... what the server sees and what the client sees. Windows networking relies on extensive (and complex) caching on each client. Sometimes a wait of 5-15 minutes will solve network 'issues' on a client. Other times the server is responsible. You must look in both places to determine the source(s) of your problem(s).

Login as root on the PDC (Primary Domain Controller). Read more »

How Gmail destroyed Outlook.

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