[XCSSA] Laptop raffle

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Tuesday 09 June 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> > Dunno if y'all have seen this yet:
> > http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/06/laptop-raffle-features-alienware-be
> >au ty.html
>
> I had a few of those AMD bircks for a while:
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Internet_Communicator
>
> Very cool little AMD GX500 Geode proc (1Watt) x86 "PC brick".. completely
> sealed.. designed for third world countries and ISPs.
>
> The thing is (and the wiki doesn't mention this) is that even if you can
> get it to boot a different media, you can't install anything else on it
> (like Ubuntu) since the things runs a "Trusted Platform" chipset:

[missing link]
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module


> that precludes you from running anything but its special signed version of
> Windows on it.  Yet another sad flavor of "Digital Restrictions Management"
> (as Stallman calls it).
>
> Tweeks

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