linton
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i htought it was $99 standard? or is that not for the dev kit?
The dev. kit is $99 from globalscaletechnologies.com which is where I just got mine.
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hmmm... product breif says that the chip has an lcd display interface built in.. but does that mean lcd panel or lcd unit? (ie a monitor, or an lcd like in an alarm clock... im thinking the latter) would be great for making a little rss feed scroller for the desk?
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.
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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.
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I think it will be a flash in the pan and be over just as quickly.
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-
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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 ...
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Episode 5x05
in Hak5
Good episode but it seemed kinda short, only covered one topic, and ... did you guys forget to plug Netflix so you had to go in later and plastic it over that poor man's head? lol
I especially liked how snubs wore the MSU shirt. All my SMSU/MSU homies got a kick out of that.
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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.
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Revenue protection is as big a part of revenue making, more so now with the current economic climate.
Given the simplicity of detecting the majority of traffic from a tethered device would be a simple as a couple of filters with Wireshark and to stop it a few firewall rules, any self respecting cell provider than can't do it shouldn't be in business. My experience with the UK mobile phone providers is that they are know their stuff and they know it well.
Given that the majority of networks can't actually provide the quality or quantity of the service that most providers claim to offer you is the major reason for not allowing to teether your device or use large quantities of bandwidth, its safer to try and limit people rather than loose custom or worse be sued for not providing the service offered.
But to be fair on the providers, I know that if you let people teether your device you would have people torrenting all their warez from the phone and ruining the service for other people. So I'm actually quite happy for mobile providers to prevent and punish people from breaching their ToS.
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!
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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$ $ucka$).
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Episode 5x04
in Hak5
Regarding Dream Linux that was mentioned in this episode: it is more like a nightmare if you have an nvidia 200 series graphics card. I thought it was worth mentioning because the whole point of this distro is to be very easy for people to use straight off the boot disc. The dreamlinuxforums.org have threads on the subject and the workarounds are not easy and don't work.
Bad dream.
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I see it as a good opportunity to try and circumvent the blocking. It's a fun exercise.
xdmag, I like your idea. That's the direction I hope most people would go.
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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?
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Episode 5x03
in Hak5
I have a need for this project at work ... I can't wait to watch this and see if I can do it!
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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.
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BakbOne: I like the little crawling bug animated gif in your sig! Yes, I thought a bug was on my screen.
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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.
How sweet is this?....plug computing!!
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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.