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These kind of devices will drain a little even when off, but it should be _very_ little. I'm not sure about the Pandora, but my Nokia N800 can power itself on by a programmed alarm. That would only work if there's power to a little part of the circuitry. I think most phones drain a little as...

Hmm.. are you saying that the re-ordering process by itself also lost our original positions in the queue? I'm not certain if that's what you mean, if it really happened it would be.. unexpected and annoying.

Well, I ordered in September 2008.. and by October some 3500 devices had been ordered (at least), so I don't see how it's possible to be #1800 in the queue by ordering 9 months later. I'm guessing you ordered through the German shop, because the last 4 digits of my (UK) order bears no...

I have a swap file on a fast SD card on my N800. That's what I would recommend instead of using NAND (as darfgarf said: NAND isn't replaceable). The performance isn't really an issue, because if you start to actually use the swap space a lot you'll have a problem no matter what: You're using too...

If a running (but idle) OS can drain 4000mAh in 30 hours then the OS isn't working very well yet.. like not powering off any of the non-used parts. Comparing to other similar devices it should be possible to get 550 hours or more out of an idling Pandora OS. Or in any case an order of magnitude...

I concur with WizardStan. I've experimented with swap-on-a-card on a Nokia N800, and the N900 comes pre-setup with a quite large swap area in flash (but that's extra-fast flash for just that, mind). Swap will never give you better performance, but (if set up correctly, i.e. the kernel has its...

Skype isn't limited to x86. As you say, it runs on Android, which is ARM basically, but it also runs natively on Nokia tablets (see my posting above). And on Symbian too, so although it's closed source it's not limited to x86. The possibility of getting Skype running is probably much higher than...

It's even better than that, because Skype runs natively on the Nokia internet tablets (N800,N810) as well as the Nokia N900 phone. They're all very similar to Pandora, Maemo more so than Android. The N900 hardware is very close to the Pandora hardware as well (on the other hand the Skype version...

Emptying a 4000mAh battery in 4 days when the unit is off is very bad. Most mobile devices drain a little bit of battery even when off, but the amount you indicate is way too much. My old Nokia N800 with a 1300 mAh replacement battery (the original was 1500) won't drain the battery in 4 days...

I voted 'Other' too. But that's because I don't emulate games, I emulate old minicomputers.. .. and as I lost the hardware 15 years ago there's no other option than emulate. Until I get my Pandora I'm running my emulator on my N900 and the laptop.

Well, what I didn't know was if that would be for _new_ orders or not. It's kind of a bummer that cables aren't ready when the Pandora is, after two years since the orders went in. Because I seem to remember reports a year ago, or at least half a year ago, that cables were ready. Oh well.

I've been away from forums for a while, so I have no idea why there's a new forum now, but anyway I'm the same Tor as on the original openpandora forum as well as the Tor on gp32x.

I haven't been following the old forums for a while, so I'm not up-to-date.. what's with the TV cables? I haven't got my Pandora yet, or any email about when, but hopefully it'll be here soon. Anyway, I ordered a TV cable at the same time, 23 months back. So, aren't those cables we ordered back...

No, su is not the same as sudo. 'su' is mainly a command to switch user. If you want to make it behave somewhat as 'sudo' then you have to add a '-c' option, i.e. 'su -c do-something' It's all in the manpages.

When I ordered my beagle from DigiKey the UPS shipping was free. Had to pay VAT though, but then again I would've had to do that also if I had ordered from igep.

Note that you don't secure anything with MAC filtering. The only thing you gain with MAC filtering is more hassle for yourself because of having to maintain that MAC address list. For no security gain whatsoever. What you should do is simply to use WPA encryption. Easy to set up, easy to add new...

That's possibly a problem with the PSU.

The most common problem for new users with the Nokia series (770, N800, N810, N900) is that, even though the user manual says that the first thing you do is plug it into the charger, then wait until its charged, _then_ turn it on - people still just turn it on straight out of the box, and it...

Hm, I'm not sure what you're trying to do? When you click the install you'll get that repo applied to your apt.sources anyway. And no tweaking.. it's for the N900 to start with.

No, that's not what it means. It means 5 megabits/s and 22 megabits/s. Read all about it on wikipedia. Besides, sticks seem to be even slower than that. But I seem to get slightly more speed out of my N900 than what's been said about the wi-fi testing on the Pandora. We'll see later when things...