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I started with Gentoo back in '05 it was a good learning experience, and it makes me grateful how convenient other distros are.

Only because you feel the need to frequently announce your decision to cancel to the world, followed by coming up with some bullshit reason why you don't have the balls to actually do it yet. Glad you grew a pair and finally did.

Well, Paradox is finally gone... I wonder if he's still going to post about threatening to cancel. I wouldn't be surprised.

That's really just eye candy - all it does is make you wait for the animation to finish as well as use CPU time. While it might make it look nice, this is the MINIMAL interface. It's not going to have any of that. If you want that stuff, use pmenu.

ED said they're gonna be doing a live stream for the whole thing via webcam - it would be pretty hard to fake that.

The computation required to run a pixel shader scales with screen resolution. The Pandora has a much smaller screen than your average machine (especially nowadays), so less processing power would be required to run the same pixel shaders. I'm not saying that it's possible, it's just something...

Maybe even one in every nibble!

Awesome. Looking forward to watching these later - I don't have half an hour to spare ATM. :D Wish there was some way we could get these subtitled/translated.

Yeah, I told ED about that on Friday. Probably should have sent Engadget an email, now that I think about it. Oh well.

There isn't much advantage to running your own distro on the Pandora - the one on there has been tailored to work well with it. If you really wanted, you could probably install it to an SD card and set up all of the PND stuff. That would be a lot of work though, for not terribly much gain (IMO).

It's always possible that they know that most chips can reach 720MHz (and only a few fail at those speeds), so they bin chips when an order is placed for the 720MHz chips. They might not do pre-binning if the failure rate at 720MHz is very low.

You should send them an email - they might not know that you're there, but I'm sure they'd love a hands-on. :D In the scheme of things, they're pretty big supporters.

Hey ED, are you going to be at CeBIT this weekend (as the article says)? If so, you might want to see about finding some Engadget guys and doing a demo for them - it seems they're over there covering the conference.

I am aware of this, and that is exactly what the official status page is. I want more information though, as we haven't heard anything about them for a while. For all we know, they could already be done and sitting in the UK, or they might be another thing that could theoretically cause...

According to the official status page, the keymat production is supposed to start alongside the case production. I haven't seen anything on the boards about the keymats in a LONG time. I'm just wondering where they're at - if they're in production, done, sitting in Craig's living room, whatever.

IIRC, a 66MHz 486 was within possibility for DOSBox, once someone gets around to doing some decent optimizations. It's not out of the question that it will end up quite playable at some point.

On my phone, the port where you plug the charger in is the same as where you plug in a USB adapter or a headphone adapter. It's labelled as both of those, with no explicit mention of it being the place to plug the charger into.

This.

Oh my, this thread's back. I totally forgot about it... And Chip's here too? Talk about a blast from the past.