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  1. I'm digging it. It's actually been good for me for a very simple reason I didn't expect: it's making me learn more about the linux command line and how to modify the OS on this thing. It's really fun just doing the basics (for me). Here's a tip: those micro usb flash sticks are great for this thing. I have a slow 4gb stick that barely sticks out on the sheevaplug so it doesn't stick out past the network cable.
  2. The dev. kit is $99 from globalscaletechnologies.com which is where I just got mine.
  3. The SheevaPlug doesn't have any sort of LCD display on it. Just the mini usb for usb/serial connection to pc, the gigabit nic, and the regular usb plug.
  4. Does anyone know of any websites where some tinkering is documented with this thing? I just got my SheevaPlug Dev kit today and I'm able to start playing with it right away (you can connect to it with mini USB serial cable they give you), but I'm curious what other people are doing with it.
  5. That was my first thought, but what about the video compression system and the servers they describe in this video? http://blog.toptenreviews.com/?p=2398 If anyone can dig up any specific information on how this system works, please post it. edit: Found this article and it had some more info. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/5...ote-gaming-isn-
  6. A friend of mine had this problem and he had to bite the bullet and call them to go through the setup again which took about 1/2 an hour in his case. Of course, they will go through the account verification process with you to make sure you're the account owner ... there are some shady folks out there ...
  7. I would appreciate a promo code for a Fon+, too. If it's easy to do and will save me $20, send one my way! I gotta finance my hak5 sticker addiction somehow.
  8. Yeah, the company I worked for was pretty sloppy, but that's how they ran their business for a long time. They grew to have one of the largest cellular networks in the country until they were purchased by Verizon within the last few years. I bet the Verizon engineers have had lots of fun since the acquisition fixing stuff like that. Thanks at the posters in this thread. I didn't realize there was a way to play with the iPhone. That could be fun!
  9. Some cell providers aren't as sharp as you might think. I used to work for a large one and when we discussed our customers using bluetooth tethering with Motorola Razrs with some company engineers to get an official answer on if we could detect this activity or not, they told us that the company did not currently have a method for detecting that use of the phone's data functions as any different than non-tethered use. They thought it was too complex/costly to implement. This company was not a model of efficiency or engineering prowess by any means, but I suspect most cellular providers are similar in their priorities ($ale$ $ucka$).
  10. xdmag, I like your idea. That's the direction I hope most people would go.
  11. I just wanted to rant about this because I think it's wrong when public hotspots block your access to certain websites and don't put a little "*Access Restricted" notice of some sort below "FREE WI-FI" on their sign. What's next? You log onto a hotspot and must view a series of ads or videos every XXX minutes to continue your "free" access? China blocks your access and it's on the national news ... Panera does it and it's ok?
  12. Sometimes I put a hak5 sticker on computers I build for people and when they ask, "what's that?" I say "I'm not sure, it was in a box with one of the parts so I thought it should be on there." That feels wrong, but it's fun and it gets me ordering more stickers. I have not put them on any of my portable machines out of the fear someone will come look at my screen.
  13. BakbOne: I like the little crawling bug animated gif in your sig! Yes, I thought a bug was on my screen.
  14. This could lead to a very useful idea that I think a lot of people would go for. I use a USB card swipe reader I got for free for taking credit cards (looks exactly like the one in iaxai's post). I use a web-based credit card processing company, so I tell their website to get ready to accept data from the USB, swipe the card, and bingo ... the card data is ready to be submitted securely. So it's just a script running on a webpage. I've used this on several computers and never needed to do anything special to set up the USB card swiper. Seems like somebody should be able to make a script that runs on a web page so you can have a little browser open that waits for a card swipe to occur. The beauty of this is that, once the little web page is available for download, anybody with the cheapo/free USB card reader would be up-and-running as long as the computer they hooked it up to could run a browser that could run the script. A think client hooked up with USB card reader could have a lot of good applications, both commercial and plain old fun.
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