Hello everyone and particularly notaz,
It's been an age since I posted and I am guilty of not yet paying notaz his pledged part of the Android bounty for his work. I haven't managed to check it out since the r3 version I believe and so much has been happening, that I am unlikely to be able to do so for some time.
I doubt my presence has been found lacking upon the boards and there has been a ton of developments in all kinds of areas, production, software, OS revisions and no doubt tons more that would have gladly drowned me out anyway but things have not been good lately.
I have been in abject poverty for some time anyway, before my wife has decided upon a messy divorce and sole custody of my five children for which I must seek access to with the gulag of the family courts and I have frankly been taken to the cleaners already and am now due the mangle and pressing of the courts, to a heart wrenching prospect of seeing my children so rarely, I am barely able to see the future at all.
I have spent time recently in a mental health unit to ensure I don't kill myself and am on food packages and seeking protected housing from the criminal extortion artist landlord I was unwittingly vulnerable enough to sign up under, in order to satisfy my wifes desire to temporarily separate under her pressure to do so, in a promised bid to fix our relationship, my health and our families health, ahead of the councils rehousing schemes efforts. Amid promises I would not be left in the gutter. Whilst the benefit system saw fit to that in January and the mental health system has let me down so much that things have come to the point they have now.
I have always backed the Pandora project and had planned to invest heavily if I had made it to Dentistry but that has become a distant prospect now. Along with plans to help in third world countries with actual practical help and solutions, rather than millenium village projects that dump unuseable assets in the desert to rot along with its peoples.
Now, whilst I was in the mental health unit I met a true tech head and linux guru among the staff, for the first time and he was very interested in Pandora. SO hopefully he will be buying a new 1ghz unit along with some friends of his. Plus it proved useful on a number of times for various patients.
However, prior to the divorce news was a trip to Devon and on that first day, the LCD cable gave the PTOD syndrome and thus I shall also need this replaced at some point, outside of warranty at whatever cost in future. But it has held up for well over 6 weeks in this condition and it is, as far as I know, potentially one of the new cables, rather than the old, sadly.
It has done at least a year and a half if not 2 years daily service with no issues previously and I suspect it it is perhaps just the connector loose on one end or the other, rather than a fully damaged cable.
Yet I now lack access to any tools to check this due to my full separation from my family home and any financial position to spare cash for a screwdriver set to check this simple issue.
I shall pay up notaz bounty in the future and I wish all the forum members and wider community better times.
Pandemonium perhaps...
MP
