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I still prefer the black of the original 600MHz Pandora because it reminds me of the Thinkpads I grew up on. It feels like something I can pull out and show around in any circumstance without worrying about whether the person will judge it based on appearance.

Looks like I'd forgotten to opkg update after my last reinstall. Thanks for getting me unstuck. :)

In case you missed it, ED made a news post about 8 hours after you posted where he explained that it's a known issue.

Then I'm glad I bought a second 360 pad (still in the box) for if/when I wear this one out beyond repair. Speaking of on-topic things, do you remember if there was a verdict on the labelling for the shoulder buttons? I can never remember what they're mapped to on the Pandora. (And, since the...

I think it's a matter of taste. My PC has NES, SNES, PS2, PS3, 360, N64, and Gamecube controllers hanging off it (I decided to just wait for my BlissBox 4-play to connect the rest), my Nostalgia PC has a Gravis PC Gamepad and a Gravis PC Gamepad Pro, and I own a Gameboy Color, a Gameboy...

I'd prefer Matte Black, like my Rebirth-edition Pandora, my desktop PC, and the IBM Thinkpads I grew up on. Of all the colours I've seen or imagined a plastic case being, it just feels the classiest and most amenable to being pulled out to show to arbitrary non-retro-gamer people. (Sort of...

The Pyra has HDMI and USB ports, so why not just grab one of the many touchscreen LCDs meant for hacking together Raspberry Pi-based gizmos? I don't have a site for resistive touch bookmarked at the moment, but this site'll give you ready-made 1280x800 stuff for capacitive touch in the 7" to...

Or would I?

Not difficult. Just a simple little script which caches a sound in memory and holds open a connection to the audio mixer (to minimize latency) and has enough permissions to listen to all keypresses via /dev/input/event_whatever (if you always want keypress sounds) or X11 (if you don't mind...

Any chance we could get a tail on or included with that eSATA adapter? I want to minimize the amount of torque being applied to the port by gravity, a solid adapter is quite a lever, and finding really short (~0.5 ft.) USB 3.0 extensions that aren't also angle adapters or converters is currently...

Agreed. I'm Canadian, so our laptops tend to have the compacted laptop equivalent to 105-key keyboards with US-104 printing in black, Fn-accessible numpad in blue, and Canadian Multilingual French in green... but those aren't backlit and the keys have much more room for whitespace on them, so I...

The maker of the Bliss-Box controller adapter is currently making a second attempt to Kickstart the 4-controller successor to it (the first attempt didn't meet its goals) and I thought that, if anywhere might be an appropriate place to spread the word, it'd be here. Bliss-Box : 4-Play - One...

Not quite ultimate. I still have to carry one of these in my pocket if I want to scan QR codes.

The Pyra doesn't have room for even a laptop-style 88-key compact QWERTY layout, so all of the symbolic keys to the right of the alphanumeric ones have to be relocated.

My own experience shows that SATA is still lighter on the CPU than USB 3... which disproves your "no practical speed benefit" statement. Also, eSATA pretty much guarantees S.M.A.R.T. support while, with USB 3, it's a vendor-specificity crapshoot. As such, I only use USB 3 drives for stuff I've...

Probably because some users, myself included, report audio noise (What's the term for the "rubbing your finger over a microphone"-like sound caused by an electrical contact of inconsistent quality?) while the wheel is in the process of being moved.

The one time I bought something from ThinkGeek, I discovered that DHL takes the same obscene cut. Luckily, I seem to remember him saying that he started using USPS for Canadian orders after they changed their policy on shipping gizmos with lithium batteries.

I don't know about in the general case, but the program you're asking about is "htop"

Probably caddies. "Caddy" is basically a generic term for any kind of aftermarket protective housing that doesn't need to be removed to insert the media. (Some early CD-ROM drives used ones that looked sort of like 3.5" floppies scaled up to 5.25" and the ones to allow hot-swapping with SCSI or...

True. It always surprises me to remember that Warcraft III is 12 years old now. They were designed that way. Richard Sapper was responsible and took inspiration from bento boxes and cigar boxes... plain and unadorned, but with a surprise (the red touchpoint mouse) inside. Apparently he's...