Same here, took them days before i finally got a reply.
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com > [email protected] [email protected] > > Even Tom Lane said: "Or, if you're worried > about actions from functions, use a trigger > to do the logging. There are approximately > no cases where a rule is really better than > a trigger :-( " > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
