FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

[Iain Arnell]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Glen Turner<gdt at gdt.id.au> wrote:
> On 30/06/09 01:39, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>
>> That's a really crappy place for that message, though. What's the user
>> supposed to do there... reboot and then go download another 700MB - 4GB?
>
> Yes it's a crappy place. I knew that when I suggested it.  I just couldn't
> think of a Javascript hack which would cough up the CPU features even when
> running under a 32b OS like Windows Xp.  Suggestions welcomed.

Ah, on OS like Windows, maybe ActiveX helps. I don't have such a beast
at the minute to test, but maybe this[1] works.

[1] http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/How-to-Use-JavaScript-for-Hardware-Knowledge/1/

-- 
Iain.