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Re: shipping board for a flash - 2 years ago
cotarelo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sure, I am in Spain. But I would ship worldwide, I believe a chip or board can be in a regular letter > That's nice to know. However, someone at the receiving end of the shipment may not be able to ship it back to you due to prohibitive cost unless you include a pre-paid shipping label to have it ship to youby habibie - Off-Topic
Walmart: Gateway Ultra Slim Notebook under US $80 (11.6") and US $100 (14.1") - 2 years ago
Currently Walmart is offering this Gateway 11.6" Ultra Slim Notebook ($79) and this Gateway 14.1" Ultra Slim Notebook ($99.00). They both are using a 1.1 GHz dual core intel chipset with 4GB RAM. It's not fast, but they both sure consume a lot less power. Perhaps anyone out here can take advantage of these offers. Any taker before they are out of stock? Perhaps, I can see myselfby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Any gamers know way around Gog, Steam, myabandonware .com etc? - 2 years ago
Joe, I don't have an answer to that. I don't spend much time playing computer games. Although most Linux distros come with lots of 2D and/or 3D games, the only two games I usually play (when I get bored to kill some times) are mahjongg and solitaire.by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: 'Last call' for orders from East to West? - 2 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm thinking more like a final order at least for a while, a nicer many-core TV box, maybe something Armbian loves. > If your budget allows, look for a TV Box with S922 CPU, at least 4GB RAM, a Gbps RJ45 port, and minimal a USB3 port. > I don't have the means to order form Ali Express but eby habibie - Off-Topic
Various ,icroSD cards performances - 2 years ago
FYI, I just happen to come across this link which shows several microSD performances and thought some of you may be interested in it.by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Here we go: Prime Day(s) - 2 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > FWIW, a hard drive dock I'm eyeing: > > https://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-Universal-Tray-Less-Backplane-Enclosure/dp/B00M3WNWB2? > Looks like a good deal to me. On my old AMD64 system, I have a similar hard drive dock with a lock in the front. IIRC, I bought it from NewEGG long ago and don&#by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Here we go: Prime Day(s) - 2 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > habibie Wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > I used to buy such an adapter from AliExpress > for > > less than a quarter. > > Yes, in an exhausting analysis you would be > considered to be groovier than I, but Bodhi is > Kingby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Here we go: Prime Day(s) - 2 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > habibie Wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > R U saying you can get a free trial of prime > > member, cancel it, then get another, and repeat > > the process for multiple times? > > Yes you can cancel before the trial is over. They &gby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Here we go: Prime Day(s) - 2 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't see deals I can relate/afford anyway, but I'm on another trial of Prime. > R U saying you can get a free trial of prime member, cancel it, then get another, and repeat the process for multiple times?by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Here we go: Prime Day(s) - 2 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > See good deals? > I'm pretty sure there will be lots of good deal, but I can't and/or won't be able to participate, i.e. not a prime member, unfortunately.by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Any notable rugged USB flash drives? Even wear leveling if relevant. - 3 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > habibie Wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > BTW, if I may ask the software name that you > > bought that employs such an authorization > scheme, > > please. > > Great to see you around -=H=- ! It's this: > > https://www.wby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Any notable rugged USB flash drives? Even wear leveling if relevant. - 3 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... It's software I not only paid decent $'s for, there's only one authorization, meaning if the USB stick fails I'm out in the cold (making that nighttime or even winter LOL). > Before performing the authorization, there is always some good reasons one may wanna make an image of the Uby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Mail server pogoplug pro v3 - 3 years ago
echowarrior108 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > lots of hp for sure, ... > That equates to energy power hunger? For a mail server, it is overkill, AFAICT.by habibie - Debian
Re: Mail server pogoplug pro v3 - 3 years ago
Bodhi, thank you for clarification.by habibie - Debian
Re: Mail server pogoplug pro v3 - 3 years ago
sudos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... while an old PC would do the job, something a bit more power efficient like a dell kace which has more RAM available to it might be a better option now that there's uboot for it and most of the kinks are worked out (so long as you're using 5.15.5 for the kernel at time of post.) > Am I understood you aby habibie - Debian
Re: Internal SATA mount bay 1 - 3 years ago
miazza Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > root@debian:/etc/network# mount -o rw,loop,offset=$((2048*512)) /dev/sda2 /srv/nsa325/ > [ 2496.228310][ T549] loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 3905995905srv/ns > [ 2496.266668][ T549] loop_set_status: loop0 () has still dirty pages (nrpages=1) > [ 2496.546620][ T549] loop0: detected capaciby habibie - Debian
Re: ASUS - 17.3" Chromebook - Intel Celeron N4500 - 4GB Memory - 32GB eMMC - Transparent Silver US $149 - 3 years ago
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > habibie, > > I installed Linux Mint on an Acer Chromebook > (Intel Celeron N3160, 4GB LPDDR3, 32GB) a few > years ago for my nephew. I have not heard any > freezing or any problem at all from him. > Does this Chromebook use an intel GPU?by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: ASUS - 17.3" Chromebook - Intel Celeron N4500 - 4GB Memory - 32GB eMMC - Transparent Silver US $149 - 3 years ago
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > habibie, > > If you can run Linux Mint on it, then it's a really good laptop, best bang for the bucks. > I believe this device will run Linux. However, the problem is the Linux X11 Window Manager driver for the Intel GPU chipset. Right now, I am typing this on a Linux Desktop Computer running uBuntu onby habibie - Off-Topic
ASUS - 17.3" Chromebook - Intel Celeron N4500 - 4GB Memory - 32GB eMMC - Transparent Silver US $149 - 3 years ago
Currently, BestBuy is selling this ASUS - 17.3" Chromebook - Intel Celeron N4500 - 4GB Memory - 32GB eMMC - Transparent Silver for US $149 + Free S/H. I wonder if anyone here knows this chromebook will be able to run either armbian and/or uBuntu? Also, this device comes with an intel 5k video processor. AFAIK, Linux X11 window manager driver is pretty buggy on any intel video processor thatby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Use your old android phones as pager - 3 years ago
Instead of wasting hundreds of $$$ for an expensive cordless phone set to put in every room (only for a single purpose), I have bought some inexpensive pre-paid android smartphones (when they were on sale under US $20) and use them as extensions to my FreeSWITCH for almost 4 years. I also use them for other communication (multi) purposes, i.e Signals,Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. The only drawbacks Iby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Fake RAM size on an Android TV Box - 3 years ago
I just installed/ran a shell terminal. After doing an su into root, I was able to do a df to dump partitions and a dmesg | more to dump the kernel boot log to reveal the RAM size ([ 0.000000@0] Memory: 609240K/1027072K available (11061K kernel code, 1298K rwdata, 4600K rodata, 1307K init, 3727K bss, 417832K reserved)). I created a video clip for my friend to show these two dumps so he can send thby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Fake RAM size on an Android TV Box - 3 years ago
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > habibie, > > > I sure would like to hack this device to learn something. For instance, can we modify the boot arguments to remove the androidboot.fake_rom_size=256? If so, how? > > Looks like this box can be pried opened with a plastic wedge. Open and look for serial header. > > I hope so.by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Fake RAM size on an Android TV Box - 3 years ago
daviddyer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Kernel command line > ......androidboot.fake_rom_size=256 > fake_mem_size=16 ... > > interesting parameters... > I sure would like to hack this device to learn something. For instance, can we modify the boot arguments to remove the androidboot.fake_rom_size=256? If so, how?by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Fake RAM size on an Android TV Box - 3 years ago
daviddyer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Kernel command line > ......androidboot.fake_rom_size=256 > fake_mem_size=16 ... > > interesting parameters... > Indeed an interesting one.by habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Fake RAM size on an Android TV Box - 3 years ago
Finally, I managed to remotely connect the device using the adb utility through a TCP/IP connection and found out the device only has 1GB RAM through a dmesg dump (see line #45 on the attached file) or the excerpt is shown below ([ 0.000000@0] Memory: 609240K/1027072K available (11061K kernel code, 1298K rwdata, 4600K rodata, 1307K init, 3727K bss, 417832K reserved)). I hope anyone here can coby habibie - Off-Topic
Fake RAM size on an Android TV Box - 3 years ago
I don't know if this should be posted here or on the Debian sub-forum. Please feel free to move this topic to a more appropriate sub-forum if warranted. Before I go into the subject, I wanted to say that I did encounter a similar issue with a fake RAM size on a 10.1" Android tablet that I bought from a Chinese seller on eBay. The eBay ad claimed the tablet was an octa-core system witby habibie - Off-Topic
Re: Dockstar mods: SATA, SD, 256MB RAM, Compiling/Modding U-boot; kernel DTB... - 3 years ago
David, congratulation on a nicely done RAM upgrade.by habibie - Debian
Re: Dockstar mods: SATA, SD, 256MB RAM, Compiling/Modding U-boot; kernel DTB... - 3 years ago
davidalfa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It would be pretty complicated. The soc supports 1GB max, divided in 4 RAM memories (4 chip select), and uses a 16-bit bus. > > Computer DDR2 modules are very different: they use 64-bit bus and only 2 chip select inputs, so in the best case, you will only access 512MB. And remember the connections, which areby habibie - Debian
Re: Dockstar mods: SATA, SD, 256MB RAM, Compiling/Modding U-boot; kernel DTB... - 3 years ago
David, just a stupid question: Is it possible to replace the original 128 MB RAM with a socket that can take (snap in) a notebook 2/4/8/16 GB RAM?by habibie - Debian
Re: Black Friday 2021 - 3 years ago
JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Finally I missed the deadline to cancel Amazon > Prime. Grrr... they shafted me for like $12. > This is one of the many reasons I will never sign up for such an offer unless the offer automatically terminated when the free offer expires.by habibie - Off-Topic