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    Shipping On The 4Th?

    I expect nothing less than a text adventure with the embellished truth of pandora making. :D
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    Pandora Price In The Uk

    Most of the price for building a pandora is in dollars, since that's how components and everything except final ssembly in the UK are paid When preorders opened there used to be 3 official prices, in USD, GBP and EUR, but currencies have been fluctuating a lot since then, and now the only...
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    Real Eta Please!?

    Acts of God aren't usually covered by insurance. As for the economical stability of airlines, we've already heard of a couple of them going bankrupt and stopping all of their planes as soon as they land. Of course it's not a sudden thing, people in the area know that they can expect it, but...
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    Put The "ship" In Shipping?

    I don't think that huge companies are ever going to need millions of parts withing a few days: they can afford to plan months in advance and have everything shipped by ship, which is slower, but also way cheaper, when you consider that they aren't shipping just a few pallets, but whole...
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    Volcano?

    Right now trucks are probably being used to deliver drugs, food and other urgent stuff; i don't think they want to add avoidable congestion to ground transports at the moment.
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    What To Do?

    In my experience youtube and other videos are one of the (few) things that work well with alternative free software flash implementations such as gnash or swfdec, so I believe that there is some hope to see youtube working in a short time after pandora is out games and full flash support are...
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    Putting A Cellphone In This Thing?

    Pandora it's placed in a market where the main competitor is sold at 125 EUR: adding expensive features that require lots of work to work properly isn't going to help its success. If you want a phone that is more exclusive than the iPhone to impress your friends/the ladies, why don't you buy a...
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    3G/umts Usb Dongle

    I have an huawei E1692 that works under (x86) linux with no additional driver, but requires usb_modeswitch: i believe someone said that it won't be available under pandora, but I've noticed a recipe for it in the angstrom repositories: any news on the subject? I'm also using it with wvdial...
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    Windows Ce?

    If there are just a couple applications for WinCE that have no linux equivalent, porting the whole system instead of a few apps may not be pointless, but does sound quite wasteful of resources to me. It is true that porting WinCE is probably just a matter of paying microsoft, while the...
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    It Student

    Have you ever been to the meetings of the GL-Como LUG (Linux User Group)? They are every wednesday evening and the topics range from linux lessons (basic to advanced) to tech related free chat, including some activities using arduino. As soon as the pandora for first-day orderers are out you...
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    Today Is A Great Day!(Hopefully)

    If a) happens, I'd rather receive board, nubs and display without a case than a money refund: that way I still have something to play with, and the lack of case just means that I'll have to surrender to that little voice in my head that suggest that modding is a great hobby if c) happens I'm...
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    Controlling Pandora L E D S -

    It can probably be done with a bash script using the morse program from the BSD games package $ echo "hellolo" | morse -s .... . .-.. .-.. --- .-.. --- ...-.- now pipe this to a script that sets the leds and it's done. The part that reads rss is left as a trivial exercise to the...
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    What Will You Use Yours For?

    OpenStreetMap editing on the go
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    Painting Homebrew For Pandora

    There is a Colors clone that runs under a linux based system, but it is a sugar activity, and I believe that it is not a pure python one, but includes a binary blob, so it won't even work out of the box even if sugar is ported to pandora. AFAIR it is all open source, however, so it may be a...
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    Connect 2 Pandoras?

    Using the OTG port on one pandora and a plain mini-b -> a you should be able to use eth over USB, which looks exactly like a standard network connection, just like wifi (or eth cable) to any application; the only problem I can see would be related to the USB 2.0 only limitation, and be solved...
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    Password Protecting Sd Cards In Pandora

    No, TrueCrypt isn't opensource nor freesoftware, even if they claim it to be so: it's license hasn't been approved by wither OSI nor FSF, and major distributions consider it too imprecise, so they don't feel they can safely distribute it. Also, it's authors are unknown, and this isn't exactly...
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    Google Maps And Gps ?

    It does both; it's far from a perfect implementation, the UI to get to it isn't easily discoverable and sometimes just fails, but it's getting better with each release.
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    Hmm... More Information On The Chinese Company...

    Portoguese is not a dialect of the same language of Spanish: they are both romance languages and they are about as related as English and German are. As for siesta, some people in Italy use to take a short nap in the afternoon just like siesta, but only during the weekend, or if they don't have...
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    Content Ratings

    I don't see how a content rating in the app store would influence your ability to do so: it can connect to the internet and it has a browser, so it can be used to look at porn, but this doesn't mean that anybody who looks at a pandora will think "oh, the mobile porn device". The ability to mark...
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    Pandora As A Phone

    Most GPS modems have a relatively simple serial interface and can be used via standard AT commands: there is no need of reverse engineering and anything that could cause problems on the network is sealed in the firmware where it can't be easily accessed. As for phone software, there are the...
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