On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:07 PM, John Homer H Alvero
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Talking about plug computers,
>
> http://www.ionics-ems.com/plugcomputer.html
>
> That one got ./-ed few days ago. It turned out, they are Philippine
> based. Anyone got one of these from ionics already? Need feedback.
I was in email contact with them a while back. they're Philippines
based but you'll have to pay the international shipping rate anyway.
You can arrange to pick up the item from them, but they're in an EPZ,
so there'll be taxes and such added to the price. so list price on
the website isn't quite what you'll get.
I gave up trying to buy from them because it took them 3-5 days to
answer my first email, maybe 1 day to answer questions to that first
reply, and then I never got any other replies to further questions.
Similar delays in replying are mentioned on forum posts on the net.
I bought a Tonido plug. It's good hardware except:
1. it's Ubuntu Jaunty (well, the one I got was, possibly newer
ones might be something newer, maybe Debian Lenny).
2. as far as I know there's no way to install debian or some other
linux or *BSD on it without a JTag.
3. There is no tonido support for unbricking your plug except by
sending it to them.
4. If you buy a JTag (from some other company, I got mine from
Globalscaletechnologies.com), you'll have to pop the case. The
JTag connector is on the inside, unlike with other sheeva plugs.
5. There's one USB port and one ethernet port, so you'll be pretty
limited in what you can do with it.
I've also got a globalscale plug. I haven't run it yet since I
unbricked the tonido and am running that. the globalscale plug is
supposed to have heat problems if you peg the CPU (someone benchmarked
it against an intel Atom and had problems with the heat). I don't
expect to be pegging the CPU though (just openvpn, squid, maybe some
light apache or nginx, maybe some samba) so I'm not worried
about that.
The globalscale standard server has two USB ports, an ethernet port
and WIFI. so I'll be playing with the wifi once I figure out how to
get it to run in AP mode when there's no ethernet cable plugged in,
and once I've got WPA2 installed.
tiger
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