<div dir="ltr"><div><div>no delete key, backspace only<br><br></div>Power button is above top right of keyboard.<br></div>F-keys are also gone but ctl-alt-[->] is ctl-alt-F2 (second key left of ESC).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:11 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have only 2 questions.<br>
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Does it have a DELETE key and where is the power key?<br>
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On 11/07/2014 12:26 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Got one of these beasties. It has the NVidia Tegra K1 cpu with 192 cuda cores<br>
> and quad 64-bit arm cpu, amazing power efficiency and a 1080p 13" screen that's<br>
> rather decent for less than $400.<br>
><br>
> Now for the challenge, get a non-chromeOS Linux distro to run on this thing.<br>
><br>
> Not that the shipping chromeos is bad. It's not. OK. It's actually pretty nice<br>
> for what it does.<br>
><br>
> BUT...<br>
><br>
> It has no VPN support for the SSL thing used at work. It does support IPSEC and<br>
> OpenVPN but not the F5 Big IP thing.<br>
><br>
> The chrome browser dropped support for mozilla plugin api so the spice client<br>
> browser plugin is now DOA.<br>
><br>
> Yeah. The two things I was specifically planning to use - vpn from anywhere to<br>
> get to work-based VM over a spice connection for a near live-feel full desktop<br>
> environment.<br>
><br>
> bummer<br>
><br>
> The system has a TPM that will block running a non-google signed kernel unless<br>
> it's in developer mode. Easy enough to get into (and a nice security feature is<br>
> going into developer mode from trusted mode wipes all user data out - no<br>
> password leakage - and the user space is all encrypted anyway). Entering dev<br>
> mode effectively turns off the TPM.<br>
><br>
> The recover image installs onto a USB thumb drive and uses some very strange<br>
> partitioning:<br>
> GPT with a EUFI support partition plus another 11 partitions!<br>
> parted reports errors in the formatting of the thing but the unit is happy with it.<br>
> The process uses a partition called KERN-A and ROOT-A, KERN-B and ROOT-B for<br>
> supporting a current version of kernel and filesystem plus a backup or newly<br>
> upgraded version.<br>
><br>
> The system supports 3 pairings of this so there's room for a different<br>
> filesystem. I've seen some notes on using those extra partitions (on the SSD,<br>
> not on the thumb drive recovery device) to allow dual booting in other hardware<br>
> (older chromebooks). Ubuntu 14.10 and Fedora 21 have support for the Tegra K1 on<br>
> the Jetson board (kernel 3.10+). That's a development board that's pretty much<br>
> the same thing as the Acer mainboard except the Acer has no serial port. :-( and<br>
> uses soldered-on SSD and RAM.<br>
><br>
> I need to be able to extract the weird setting from the recovery image<br>
> partitioning so I can recreate them with new data bits. And this is where I get<br>
> to learn more stuff.<br>
><br>
> Note: I intend to keep the google kernel (maybe) as it has good hardware support<br>
> for the system but use my own filesystem tree so I can add firefox and toys for<br>
> other needs. I have a 32 GB SSD (and 4GB DDR3 RAM :-) so space is not to shabby.<br>
><br>
> Ideas are welcome for reading partition data. I'll post what I see from this later.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> --<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div></div>
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