Re: [Arm-netbook] "Great China's Firewall" blocking access to A10 SoC
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:36 PM, brian <Brian_Dorling@t-online.de> wrote:
> On 11/08/2011 02:10 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> sorry, normal incomprehensible service resumed...
>
> Using CaPiTaLs might help. I always find your mails tiring to read. Sorry.
sorry, brian. *rueful*. ok, allow me to explain, put forward an
alternative hypothesis, and a potential solution.
some time in about 1996 i read that, because capitals are less
common, they're tiring to read. except for spanish-speaking people,
who shout at each other anyway, and who have the exact opposite
convention, to use capital letters all the time. on the basis of
these two observations, i decided 19 years ago not to use capital
letters except for proper nouns, shouting and other appropriate uses.
one side-effect of not using the shift key is that i can type at over
170wpm, continuously, for over 20 mins. my working hypothesis is,
therefore, that the tiredness stems from "information overload". i've
sort-of instinctively recognised this, which is why i keep
communications to "short bursts" and only at critical times (such as
right now).
in any account: in respect of your (implicit) wishes, and in the
interests of helping free software progress, it would therefore help,
greatly, for _other people_ to pick up the ball and run with this
project, to the extent that they are prepared to and able to.
i've done the hard work - found the CPU, found the factory - it's
downhill from here.
the TODO list includes:
* web site (run under the Community Interest Company)
* uploading the GPL kernel to a community repository
* alpha-level early prototype kernel development
* beta-level 2ndary prototype software development
* wiki instructions development
* etc. etc.
several people have agreed already to be informal
(debian-leader-like) admins of the CIC web site, and we have 8 people
willing to buy prototype boards (2nd-stage / betas).
progress.... :)
l.
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