"Log-In" problems.

[danmcgrew]

When I try to Log In on one of my computers, I'm met with only a 'gray box', into which I can't type anything.

What gives?Why can't I log...

[danmcgrew]

Perhaps if the most popular processor were a Harvard-architecture machine rather than a von-Neumann-architecture machine, this would not be a problem....

[danmcgrew]

As most Raspberry Pi apologists, you have a very selective memory, if indeed you have any memory at all of the "facts" you manage to dredge...

[danmcgrew]

"I would go for any alternative with eMMC..."

That means that you'd go with ANY other currently-available SBC rather than the RPi....

[danmcgrew]

One of the problems I have with the people who comment here, on Phoronix, is the fact that they will never come right out and say what's on their minds;...

[danmcgrew]

The FSF will be able to move forward only when DOCTOR Stallman (he's the only Ph.D I know of who goes out of his way to emphasize, on the least important...

[danmcgrew]

Please be more specific...a lot more....

[danmcgrew]

One can only assume that commenter is Italian.
Were the Italians not members of the 'Axis powers', right there, waving their fists and screaming...

[danmcgrew]

Michael Larabel--

Between your two very good articles on the Motile M141laptop, there has been interest voiced in an ARM-based Linux laptop;...

[danmcgrew]

That's a very hard question to answer, as the 'sleep' and 'resume' capabilities are dependent on the particular distribution being used ON a particular...

[danmcgrew]

IF
(a) whoever really manufactures this can keep making it and selling it retail for $199; and
(b) this signals the beginning of the same...

[danmcgrew]

One of the reviews (on the internet) says that this laptop has an IPS display....

[danmcgrew]

"I will go powerpc this time"

For $199.00, right?

hehehe...

[danmcgrew]

And I like MY cheap laptops to have...

11.6“ display; not 14“;
a maximum of 64 GB of eMMC-- absolutely NO SSDs;
no Ethernet...

[danmcgrew]

Here are the specs from WalMart's web-page, referenced by Michael Larabel's hyperlink in the article:

• MOTILE Performance Laptop
• 14'' FHD
• AMD Ryzen

...

[danmcgrew]

From the article, I just followed Michael's hyperlink to WalMart, and discovered from WalMart's customer reviews for this product that it has a back-lit...

[danmcgrew]

Didn't Michael Larabel write

"...I'll run some additional tests after upgrading to two DDR4-2400 (the max speed supported by the Ryzen...

[danmcgrew]

I've been around long enough to know--and have seen, first-hand--that one strategy companies / corporations use to solve their problems of actively working...