The new G315 units (and only the G315s) don’t have USB 2.0 support. Â They use USB 1.1. Â When you try to load the configuration via USB, it will fail, and it will lockup.
The power-on while holding buttons 1 and 4 trick to reset the IP addresses doesn’t work.
The power-on while holding buttons 1 and 2 to reset the device doesn’t work.
The work-around is to use the ‘file – save image’ option – save file as image.ci3
Write the image file to a Compact Flash card. Â Insert in HMI, reboot.
Prager University: Did FDR End or Extend the Depression?
President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” has long been credited with rescuing the nation from the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics at UCLA, challenges this conventional wisdom in a provocative examination of FDR’s economic policies.
Did you know: The Declaration of Independence was almost never signed because the Southern states demanded the right to keep slavery institutionalized. The slaves were almost freed in 1776.
Here is the clause describing slavery that was removed:
he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce:[11] and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
Here are some pictures of the fascinating and awesome Homestead Heritage Village in Waco Texas.  An amazing number of amazing things are happening here.  They are a self-sustaining village, and do most everything by hand.  Their property is beautiful, everything is organized, manicured, and inviting.  They have lots of classes in session all the time too.
Here are some pictures from the World Hunger Relief Farm in Waco Texas. Â It is a working farm with lots of interns helping. Â They have all kinds of things going on there, and they focus on low-tech solutions that work in third-world countries where specialized technicians and fancy parts are not generally available. Â Simple water pumps, gravity fed showers, that sort of thing.
I was a fan of the netbooks because  they were inexpensive, small, booted quickly (well, before Microsoft got involved that is), and had great battery life.  The low-end line of chromebooks maintain these features, with the added benefit of being powered by Google’s awesome operating system, Chrome OS (which is built on the foundation of the awesome and excellent and open source Linux/GNU parts called Chromium OS).
I just installed it in a virtual machine, and I’m impressed with the way it works. Â Of course it integrates with everything google, just like the android mobile devices. Â Here is a quick rundown (notes) of how to get Chrome OS (not just Chromium OS) working on a VM:
 maintain these features, with the added benefit of being powered by Google’s awesome operating system, Chrome OS (which is built on the foundation of the awesome and excellent and open source Linux/GNU parts called 
