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I back up the SheevaPlug idea. I use it as an application server to run various apps that I want centralized, mostly Pidgin -- which I use for all my AIM/Yahoo/LJ/Facebook communication, Kate -- which I use as a todo list, and KNotes -- for my lists of stuff. They're easy to run via ssh from...

It is an unfortunate situation. The positive aspect is that the people who are making this are genuinely passionate about what they're doing and aren't just some fly-by-night group. They truly believe that they're making something really great (and, for me, they are). It really is one of...

Your reaction is not rude at all. This is, in fact, a perfectly valid reason to send a message asking for a receipt (or, at least, a confirmation of what your order number is). The only downside is that you have no idea how long you might need to wait for a response (it's okay to bitch about...

If you're not German, you can email sales@openpandora.org for an update on or confirmation of your status. It takes a while to get a response, as they have a massive email queue. It will probably be even tighter over the next couple weeks, as they just got a load of cases to partially assemble...

My only real worry here is that it might imply that they'll ship all the boards on October 18th and none sooner. Is there any indication that some boards may be shipped earlier?

ssh is indeed a great route to go. You can also use it to view files with your favourite file browsing program, as if it was being shared over smb or nfs, but with more security and sometimes more ease. I have an extremely small server at home that I store mail on and access using ssh. It's...

http://members.shaw.ca/jeffv/halo2600.html Half-Life 2600 sounds good to me.

http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/ stress is one possible test, though it only tests one particular aspect of the cpu. "stress --cpu 10 --vm 4" will spawn ten processes each computing a random number's square root continuously and four processes continuously allocating and...

Oh, wow, no removable battery is a pretty big negative. It's also apparenly only 1620mAh, much less than half the capacity of the Pandora's battery. Yeah, that was probably another killing point for me. Font size is independent of resolution. A font is measured in units called "point", which...

The Sharp Netwalker is the one device that came anywhere near convincing me to cancel my order. It has a 5", 1024x600 touchscreen and an 800MHz Cortex-A8 cpu, with a physical-buttons keyboard and Ubuntu preloaded. The only things keeping me from switching to it, besides the pull of the...

Why not make it a torrent download, then?

Yeesh, I go out for Sangria and Tequila shots and when I come back all hell has broken loose. Don't worry, I am completely confident that somehow the UK will explode late Tuesday evening. In the meantime, I'm finally content enough that I can add myself to the OPT facebook group. :D

I'm guessing that once the first cases from the fracktory are in the hands of the UKers and have been verified to be of acceptable quality (and fit together correctly with everything else), there will be no major obstacles to production, and shipping will start fairly soon thereafter. At that...

OP might be talking about the Xbox 360 "Bionic Commando", not the NES game with the same name. It is, in fact, supposed to be fairly terrible. However, even that does not hold a candle to "M&M's Kart Racing", which itself is not nearly the worst game ever made.

Just a quick observation, but if you mention your order month in addition to your approximate placing, then other people may be able to infer their approximate placing without having to contact the Team. The being helpful aspect of this thread is better than the measuring e-peen aspect. ;p

I can't speak for the BeagleBoard or the Pandora, as I have neither, but if the Pandora can run openjdk, then I imagine it'd probably work. I just installed openjdk-6-jre on my SheevaPlug (runs on a different ARM-based architecture as the Pandora), and ran the program with "javaws...

I forgot that the first thing I would actually do is "alias opkg='apt-get'". ;) Hmm. I forgot that ARMv5 is not ARMv7. I have nethack running on the former (courtesy of the package repository provided, though), and for some reason I was just blindly assuming that because it was available...

From the official blog (April 13th 2010 entry): Anyway, when you run kate, the processes that appear in memory are kded4, klauncher, kdeinit4, kio_file. It may seem cluttery just by way of being multiple processes, but the overall memory usage isn't wild at all for a complex graphical...

uname -a ping -n 8.8.8.8 ssh -XC myname@192.168.1.42 pidgin & apt-get install nethack *lots of xmodmap commands here probably* nethack (then I will be sad if the dpad cannot register a diagonal as a distinct character)

Are you sure? I run kate remotely on my ARM-based SheevaPlug all the time. I just took a quick look, and running kate from a completely non-KDE start point decreased by free memory from 341MB to 327MB, a drop of 14MB. That's with several extensions (tab bar, file browser tool view, text...