Sniffle, Gravel Claus bestowed a v4 Mobile in my stocking and I'm most appreciative, and hopefully research & some prep tonight.. Thanks :-) So is the resistor we need a 2.2 kOhm or 2.7 kOhm? They never finalized the best choice.by JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
My favorite ThinClient is a 10Zig with 1.2 Ghz single core and 2 GB ram (VIA video chpset), and most usage is well within the limits. However like most small processing boxes I run, VLC takes up way too much processing to even think of using, and MPlayer seems very close but could use a boost. So tonight I discover an old workout video, and the audio isn't syncing too well. So I open Termiby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
I'm shocked SanDisk isn't sponsoring SOCs. Seems like they'd win more than anyone if it's popular.by JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Allwinner A10
If that isn't a revelation. Hey bodhi, no skin off our teeth if we were to suggest to the crowd-funders to make a little SOC which are stackable like legos. At first I was brainstorming a harness where you could plug one into the other, like one harness piece for every board to extend. And that's valid. But a little board with males and females. Of course that would be a pain if one blby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Allwinner A10
Thanks for the correction twinclouds, I edited. By chance do any of those pins have another way for wired networking? Wow, I just had one of those moments... but if this takes up so little wattage, is it possible to use the 5v to plug this into a USB port of something else (a RAM-starved Pv4 or something)? If there's a pinout available I'd take a look, not saying I can figure it oby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Allwinner A10
Add a sunny-side-up egg as a trackball? Alpha Bits keyboard? Breakfast is served! Too cool.by JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Be still my beating heart, wow is anyone else impressed by this 4-bay universal? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003X26VV4?psc=1 If some hard drive docks are called toasters, this I call an oven. Have one of the drives SATA III just for swap and stick a pogoplug-style board onto it, voila. I couldn't ask for more, at least for along time! Probably a month from now the prices ought to dip... Geby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Sure captures the imagination, that we're so close to alternative thin client guts you can tape to the back of a monitor. I just can't understand, if the RAM is that low (high for headless, but somewhat low for video requirements), why use (edited) Video and instead why not an Ethernet port in its place. Then again a Bluetooth adapter alone at Menards is $14, so just thinking out loudby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Allwinner A10
Masters, for those who are so inspired to have bought a v4-3 or two, would you say -fresh out of the box- it's best to solder the resistor on before anything else, or prep it a certain way? -and an admission I'm not even good at basic math, previously (their fault first) it was said speeds beyond SATA 1 weren't reached, when in fact the Gigabit limit wouldn't pass SATA 1 anby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Now that you mention it, no I guess I never did go through with complete testing! Wow. - I edited-out lamentations about cheap and good hard drives, but for those in the States I've just re-discovered an old haunt that treated me well ages ago. It's called PriceWatch.com. Here are the hard drive listings, and for many including me, all of sudden Pogo hard drive alternatives are easyby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Yeah enjoy. Acquiring Pogoplugs I see are like Pringles: once you pop you can't stop. I'd be heavily tempted to get a spare E02 before thinking about an OrangePi too. This somewhat older article with comments from Qui, reflects stock Pogoplug 4 processing and likely isn't quite as specifically true now that it's clocked higher. The E02 performed mostly better, but since theby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
habibie, my last trip to a Habitat For Humanity ReStore, they had two for sale, one possibly used, but the action is the best yet. That was $1. The other one was $2.50 in the box, and has a big flap for a switch handle,. I bought both, and at $3.50 that makes it around half price. Hopefully there will be more at places like that. I never expected to see those there and was only going through elby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Gravelrash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > call me giddy but i just ordered another couple of > plugs from the uSA in casei do damage to my > existing ones :) Mind if I ask how much $ you found to be an acceptable exchange? Yeah if I had 2.5" hard drives I'd snap up a couple too. This winter I'd expect to see great deals on the kby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
yeah high heat can be tricky, I've done a lot of silver soldering and have a vacuum syringe and braid to mop up a bad solder point. Having learned to solder at age 4 by a ham radio dad, my processes go something like this, to get a resistor and clip the leads 3/4" from the resistor, drop a tiny blob of solder on the ends, heat sink clip right before the ends, then push end one at aby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Now they're saying 2.7KOHm. Hey does the Pogo4 (with USM under the lid) accommodate a 3.5" hard drive? Or just 2.5". As for soldering, it's no big deal to make it easy on yourself and position a resistor so it isn't as politically correct as the Photoshopped tiny resistor. Take solder iron to the grindstone and grind it to an icepick point lol Plenty of light solderinby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Built on Debian and XFCE, at fully last a Linux that I'm comfortable with on the desktop computer. I've tried most everything i could get my hands on and make USB Lives out of, and eventually I settled on recent Debian with XFCE and KDE GUIs. It really looked beautiful but the "feel" was never right. This could be due to many reasons. On the other hand, another favorite, Mintby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Joey, > > QuoteYou'd think there would be a lot of > alternatives, seeing as how many people have > tablets and would want to stream stuff > out. > > It's minidlna. Just apt-get install it, and done. > > > If you want to stream better videos than what dlna > usuallyby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Sorry habibie,but here is the Menards listing of the same model number I bought, but their picture doesn't look like the ones I bought, see attachment above: Menards $3.80 apiece and smart to start with at least get two, because you might find yourself checking the width of various powerstrips and adapters because there really are clever ways to rig these so wires are out of the way.by JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
@ bodhi yeah the Rosewill is the one, and priced nicer since you've found it. That extra $4 it costs to load a PayPal (and the mandatory $20 minimum) pushes my post-heart-failure budget over the top. I have relatives who are buying a hardware store and I emailed them saying "if you stock anything get lots of these!". I have no doubt home NAS/cloud use will dramatically increase whby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
You'd think there would be a lot of alternatives, seeing as how many people have tablets and would want to stream stuff out. Wait a minute, didn't Qui have either DLNA or something inside the openWRT package? I can't look now or for a while. Other than that, I have a G-Connect external hard drive and the GUI is fully beautiful and you know the internal hardware has the power oby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Based on previous experience with a backwards Firewire 1394a plug (a lesson I will NEVER need to repeat), I may as well stay with 5 SATAs and like it. Zero steps forward is always better than fifty steps back. Thanks Gravelrash :-)by JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
If a Pogoplug had a microphone plugged into it, and we know USB mics are between a dime a dozen and $99 for a Blue Yeti, we could make an ambient noise map over time. This is inspired from people who need to record acoustic guitars, and neighbors/street noise are too loud. They could record at night, but that kills the vibe. There are holidays the neighbors leave, Sundays maybe neighbors go cby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
I have an old motherboard I was re-purposing- has quadcore and 6GB RAM, runs excellent and triple boots Windows 7 x64, Hackintosh Snow Leopard and Debian XFCE/KDE. It's got 6 SATA ports, and three SATA cables were stuck in the sockets. The first one I pulled out too hard and that little motherboard SATA piece came off. I didn't know the orientation of the other two on that side, and carby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Awe thanks Leggo :-) I'll get some of these adapters bookmarked and order as soon as possible while adapters are cheap and keep an eye out for the best deals on storage anywhere from now till Spring. outrageously cool idea though, for sure I'll do that on my 10ZiG Thin Client w SATA (1.6Ghz 2G RAM) and one or the other on both PogoPros. 'Tis also the week to check thrift storesby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Is there a middle ground, for instance an mpcie adapter with SDHC slots? I ask because I already pulled the stock Pogoplug wireless and Class 10 SD cards are said to be good for 95 MB sec. Seems like a good middle ground, as you could have a cheaper, replaceable small card for swap and another for the other stuff. Not sure about wear leveling or if it exists on those. You'd think it wouldby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
You activated the hyperactive kid Christmas morning here. Wow. I wonder if I could persuade a few details, if you use it for main OS or otherwise the partition choices made thus far? The model seems to be a SanDisk SDSA5FK-024G-1002Q This looks doable. I'm definitely not rich, but the SSDs I priced aren't much different from decent USB sticks in the 128-256 GB denominations.by JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Wow those ideas sound right on an there's no reason not to pursue most of them. I'd do the Pogo 4 just for the adapter junction right in one place, although to be fair it's a slower chipset than other dockstars, there's a chart around somehwere and it was the worst LOL. Still, if/when I obtain 2.5" HDDs that'll be fun. I need a toaster in the meantime though.by JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
Wow the price is right! As low as 75 cents, and even $5 in the States (at least eBay) which isn't bad. The ones I see listed push .75 A @ 12v. Not sure if that's pushing it, but I'd try it in an emergency situation. I noticed Seagate's 12v adapter for one of the Dock Stars is 12v 2.5A, probably to accommodate the additional power loss with the 5v tap further downstream, butby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic
-edited- Leggo you've been most inspirational kind of soaring up there knowing to use everything that I do the hard way. For instance the route you went with eSata compared to USB 3.0. I had no idea at the time that eSata is smart and USB 3.0 is (in all honestly, a practical specification lie). Gravelrash, bodhi, Grayman, Charisma, really everyone inspirational except me lol Pogoplugsby JoeyPogoPlugE02 - Off-Topic