[XCSSA] Laptop raffle

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

>From the wikipedia article there's a way around it. :)

If you feel like shipping one, I could take one off your hands.  I'm
in houston but could paypal you shipping or mail you a regular check.

FIRESTORM_v1

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:34 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio
<xcssa at xcssa.org> 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-beau
>>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:
>
> 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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