Statism in Engineering

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It probably doesn't work.  I think that this is the most French-ish state-ish company this side of the Atlantic.

Acer Revo RL100

Just bought this as a general purpose computer for my daughter, for her small room at university.  It's replacing an old eeebox which was getting way to slow.  This is very fast with good graphics. I'm probably going to give up building my own huge tower machines one day.

It has this useless touch pad.  If you just want to use it, then power it up without a keyboard and mouse.  Poor me started it with a keyboard and mouse, and it puts in the exact same mouse and keyboard drivers.  You can't tell the difference!  So I can't ever try out this keyboard unless I kill the device drivers for the keyboard and mouse.  This is like being on the cartoon side of the branch you're cutting.

Dog days of summer

Nothing happening.  Going on a big canoe trip to Temagami.  Hope everybody is happy.