[GTALUG] Cyber Monday cheap netbook

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:56:16AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> Everyone got two copies of this because you didn't notice that the
> list software rewrote my address to be the list address.  Notice that it 
> has happened to your "From:" address too.
> 
> Of course rewriting my address is horrible, but it is forced on the list 
> software by various big email hosts (eg. google) rejecting forwarded mail.
> 
> Grrr.
> 
> No.  It should work.  But it is likely slower than the 32G eMMC "disk" 
> built in.  And likely less reliable.
> 
> I have tried booting another tiny Win10 box off an SD card, and that 
> failed.  Some dumb limitation of the UEFI firmware.  I have no idea how 
> widespread that silly "feature" is.

UEFI/BIOS in general probably doesn't include drivers for an SD card slot.
SD USB card reader on the other hand ought to work since that is just
a USB drive.  Windows on the other hand by design doesn't support booting
from such a thing.  You need a more expensive license for that feature.

> Windows used to refuse to install on a removable drive.  This was 
> apparently an anti-piracy measure.  I think that with their new license 
> verification process Microsoft has loosened that restriction.

No it is only supported for Windows-to-Go which I believe requires Windows
Enterprise licensing.

> In any case, I have some cheap 3.5" drives laying about.  If I had any 
> plausible requirement for Windows on this box, or a need for more than 32G 
> on linux, I would add a SATA drive to this netbook.

-- 
Len Sorensen