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hmm, let's see: You could turn it into an audio/mediaplayer. I hear the headphone's audio-output-quality is in a class of its own. Use it as a controller for domotica/your tv(incl tv-guide). Lots of DIY though... Use it as a GPS-navigation-device in your car. Abuse it as an external...

PND's are run within a unionfs of the (ro) PND and the (rw) appdata-dir. This PND's run-script copies the (non-executable) contents of the presets-dir to the keymaps-dir (which gets created in appdata/kblayout), asks for a keymap and then runs 'sh "keymaps/$keymap"', which doesn't require the...

I guess the pnd's appdata-dir already exists? In that case, you'll need to change the permissions recursively. And you might want to change who owns /pandora/appdata. sudo chown -R <user>:<group> /pandora/appdata should do the trick. But it's also possible that the pnd attempts to execute...

eehm, change the ownership of the appdata-directory on your root-partition, creating it if it doesn't exist yet?

The Tegra3 consumes quite a bit of power, resulting in barely acceptable battery-life if something loads that chip to the max. Tegra3-owners should be happy that barely anything does. They'd have no choice but to disable 2 of the 4 cores if stuff did. That chip isn't much of a threath. For...

Set up a dev environment (in a chroot?) on the Pandora, mount your Pandora's filesystem on your desktop (f.ex with sshfs) so that you can code on your desktop, ssh into your Pandora, and compile from there. Set up distcc to get your desktop(s) to help along. Effectively very similar to a VM...

I see little use for such a thing. A real Pandora is faster, and you can do all of your compilation on the Pandora. Or try distcc to get your desktops to help along. It also won't be able to emulate all of the hardware, particularly the PowerVR and the nubs, so it won't be able to run exactly...

It's got more battery-life than anything even remotely similar (10+ hours of gaming), superior headset-audio, and remote computing (perfectly fine for compiling and stuff) lessens the importance of its lowish performance.

Check this page. 600 left. 1/3 of the (±150/week) newly produced Pandora's go to Preorders, so the last ones should be sent out somewhere in October, which is also what Craig's shop told me through Email. As for what's going on: the previous board-population-company (CircuitCo, TX, US) managed...

That's probably the problem yeah, sorry for that, forgot that ext4's currently not built into the kernel...

First of all, double-mount the root-filesystem somewhere else, so that you can copy everything in it, including the contents of dirs that have something mounted over them (f.ex: /dev). Something like mount -o bind / /media/nand (the dir must exist, and should be empty). Then sudo cp -a...

Don't forget to calculate in the higher backers. The average pledge of those who get one is ±$134,-. They ask a reasonable $30,- for a second blutooth-controller, so (minus fees) that's ±$90,- for the console itself. They plan to deliver in march 2013, by then the chip's starting to get old. You...

And one of TI's GPU-driver-developers is reverse-engineering qualcomm's chips in his free time, because he wants open-source drivers, and he can do those without breaking NDA's...

You can move your home-dir to the sd-card with "usermod -md [/new/home/dir] [username]". That'd do the trick. Then symlink /tmp (or make it a tmpfs and enable swap) and /var (or parts of it) to somewhere on your sd-card, and you'll barely see any writes to nand. But please note that you...

Well, the 1GHz DM3730 is certainly faster on paper, and consumes less power, than the OMAP3530, but not much more than an overclocked 3530 (though you can ofc also overclock a 3730, but prob not by as much %), and the noticeable speed-difference for the things the Pandora is used for wouldn't be...

So, what about this: Continue selling the 600MHz-ones for a small profit, until you run out of OMAP3530s, and also start normal production of 1GHz-ones, whose price starts at crazy amounts to whoever thinks it's worth it, and slowly drops to whatever happens to generate a sustainable profit...

Umm, the $500,- price IS profitable. The production-costs seem to be ±$400,-. The profits currently go to paying for the price-difference of the preorders, and will be used to pay off the debts afterwards. The $700,- is much more profitable, and OPT can ask that price because it's only a tiny...

Well, OpenPandora GmbH. is running out of OMAP3530s, so will soonish need to switch to the DM3730. However, that part does need to be tested, and that'd better happen before there are no OMAP3530s left... So that's the primary goal of this 150-unit run. But hey, might just as well sell them...

The software- and firmware-development is pretty separate from the hardware, and done by different guys. It doesn't make sense to fund the hardware with the software. There's already a donation-fund for software-development. If people think software-development is going too slow, they should...

The best way of tracking usefulness is by tracking the amount of users still using the app, and how much/long they do. That'd require the OS the track and (anonymously ofc...) upload that. You could also show the downloads/usages per day/week/month and/or use a moving average, by lowering the...