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  1. Re:Terapin Mine? by pwagland · · Score: 4, Informative · on Bluetooth Enabled External Harddrive
    It was always interesting to me as well. The problems with the "lack of buzz" around the terapin mine are entirely their own fault. Here is a shortlist:
    • Despite promising a developer kit, it is at least 9 months late
    • It is expensive. More than an Ipod.
    • No known updates (or ways to update) the linux based OS. And they are not GPL friendly, in that you can't get their mods to the OS.
    Bluetooth would not of helped them any. Theoretically, you could plug a bluetooth PCMCIA card into the mine and it would do it as well (runs linux inside) so it should work. I would seriously consider it if these issues could be resolved....
  2. Terapin Mine? by philipsblows · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Bluetooth Enabled External Harddrive

    This was always interesting to me, since it has storage AND the possibility of plugging in an 802.11b PC card (maybe even 802.11a? only supports 16-bit pcmcia), but there hasn't been much buzz about this product (though thinkgeek sells it

    Something like this Toshiba device or the terapin mine seems like a great external storage device for PDAs (ipaqs and others with BT capabilities) or maybe a music store for a car player with BT capability (are there such things yet?)

    I have my doubts about bluetooth for this, though... will not users suffer the same sort of issues as they do (did) with large-capacity mp3 players with serial or plain old usb 1.1 connections?

  3. Re:Sweet! A linux handheld... by kilgore_47 · · Score: 2 · on Terapin Mine Review

    sweet, the display does four whole lines of text!!

  4. Some Links by Nynaeve · · Score: 5, Informative · on Terapin Mine Review

    Since the site is gone for the moment, here are some quick links:
    Web Site:
    www.terapin-mine.com
    Purchase:
    http://www.thinkgeek.com
    Reviews:
    http://www.digitaljournalist.org
    http://www.edgereview.com
    http://computers.cnet.com

  5. Re:Sweet! A linux handheld... by wizzy403 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Terapin Mine Review

    It's not a linux handheld... It's a file store that happens to run Linux on the backend... But you're completely isolated from any of the OS by their software... Thinkgeek has been carrying these for a while now, but they're expensive.

    Here is the user's manual, which has some good screen shots...

    wizzy

  6. Ditch laptop, get a digital wallet by Matthew+Weigel · · Score: 3, Informative · on Travelling with Wireless in Europe?

    Don't take the laptop; it's fraught with temptations for things you probably shouldn't do on your honeymoon (and I don't just mean pr0n).

    But you do want to take a digital camera; and you don't want to run out of 'film.' So get a digital wallet, like the Terapin Mine, or the Minds@Work MindStor or Digital Wallet.

  7. The mine terrapin pruports to do this.... by pwagland · · Score: 3, Informative · on Embedded Linux as Attached USB Storage Device?
    plus a whole lot more... check it out here.

    Note: While they say they are based on linux, they do not appear to of have released the sources anywhere that I can find. They do claim to be making a developers kit, but that is alos hard to find at the moment....

  8. Re:The enemy controls the hardware by Myself · · Score: 2 · on Where are the non-SDMI MP3 Players?

    Have you looked at the Terapin Mine? It looks like a general-purpose device if I've ever seen one!

  9. Terapin Mine Handheld by X86Daddy · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Where are the non-SDMI MP3 Players?

    I saw this at Thinkgeek. It is a Linux-running 10 Gig HD with USBs, Ethernet, PCMCIA, etc... I don't think it records, but it sounds really cool anyway. Here's the manufacturer's link.